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by cb18 10y ago
Because if you have an interest in Germany continuing to exist in the future, you need German people. A country filled with Arabs, Africans, and Afghans isn't Germany, peoples aren't fungible in that way.
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by cb18 10y ago
When riding a bike, I think it is wise to judge the class "car drivers on Saturday night," different than the class "car drivers on Tuesday afternoon," because "car drivers on Saturday night" are more likely to
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by cb18 10y ago
Since others are picking apart your argument in the large Ha! No one else has even evidenced reading the post, I applaud you for seeming to have at least read it. so they've had much less time to be dragged down by systemic racism.
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by cb18 10y ago
The US's history is enormously racist. We fought an entire civil war over whether black people were actually people. The racism denialists are in effect claiming that on some unspecified date in history, all of that racism evaporated
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by cb18 10y ago
You're taking observations(one of them isn't even a factual observation[0]) and then a priori assigning a cause, "systemic racism," to those observations. That is not how facts, or rational, coherent reasoning works. [0]
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by cb18 10y ago
Despite similar rates of drug use, black people are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana use This can be pretty obviously understood as the result of compound charges, of which the drug charge is a minor component. Bea
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by cb18 10y ago
"Institutional racism,"(has it undergone re-branding as "institutionalized discrimination"?) is this vague, boogey-man term used as an explanation of last resort to explain the "achievement gap," among other d
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by cb18 10y ago
It's an uncommon thing, an anomaly, so it's news. Most people outside the UK have no idea who Goldsmith or Khan are.
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by cb18 10y ago
Value is just like a variable, it is a place holder for what matters. And the value of the value can vary depending on the person or the situation. It could be a positive or a negative value, a value of high importance or minimal importa
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by cb18 10y ago
Well, value in sating a compulsive or addictive behavior, but not all values are equal.
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by cb18 10y ago
> /r/european, which is a neo-nazi forum That's not an accurate characterization. There is an element of that, but it is frequently pushed back against. It's mostly people who are dismayed by this recent migrant madn
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by cb18 10y ago
I think the main reason Uber "won" is because starting off with the black cars was a much more effective launch approach. As everyone knows, 2 sided marketplaces are very difficult to build. Uber solved this by stocking one side
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by cb18 10y ago
if Uber can't/won't pay a living wage for a day's worth of work, and keeps cutting its prices which have a direct impact on people's income, bring on the tipping. So you can cover the cost of their employees while
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by cb18 10y ago
How is it possible to uniquely identify a computer's hardware from over the internet? Do you think there is a database that connects an identifying factor of all computers to their owners? A computer vendor could maybe keep a list of d
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by cb18 10y ago
What's more likely, there are people posing as scientists trying legitimize 'racism,' or scientists presenting accurate data are called 'racists' because people don't like their data?
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by cb18 10y ago
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by cb18 10y ago
Your trying hard, but you seem to have no idea what you are talking about. " This is the Wall Street Journal fringe. " It ran in the journal Intelligence signed by their editorial board. Who are these "non-fringe" you
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by cb18 10y ago
Things like poor nutrition and lack of other basic necessities when corrected do yield modest improvements in IQ scores, but not enough to explain the gap between races. very hard to be raised in the same circumstances when you're of
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by cb18 10y ago
So poor blacks kill each other in huge numbers, and poor whites don't. What's your point exactly? Also, maybe you missed the black on white numbers which are off the charts compared to the inverse.
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by cb18 10y ago
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by cb18 10y ago
Sure, but if you're born in Canada and move to a city in China, then your phenotype is contributing to the cosmopolitan culture of that city, and the culture of the city is contributing to your phenotype.
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by cb18 10y ago
lacks several authors Like who? Stephen Jay Gould? a cursory glance Maybe you should give it a closer look so you're not resting your worldview on confirmation bias.
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by cb18 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstream_Science_on_Intellig... This is a false statement: The overwhelming consensus by scientists at reputable top universities don't allege this at all.
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by cb18 10y ago
Everyone's entitled to their own crackpots, but not their own facts.
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by cb18 10y ago
Societies and cultures are just the emergent results of the interaction of phenotypes. i.e. Culture and people are one and the same.
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by cb18 10y ago
It's not a site I frequent, I think it may have a bit of that brand image, but not like ufo bigfoot or whatever crackpot levels. That article is just a simple and clear telling of sourced facts that came up when I was searching for som
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by cb18 10y ago
evolution stopped being the driving force for human development a long time ago. Why in the world would you think that? We're still made of genes aren't we? We still sexually reproduce don't we? because of actions we (deve
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by cb18 10y ago
threatens the lives of poor people in third world countries, suddenly we're worried about the ecosystem? I don't know how this will be received. I don't even know how I feel about it. But someone has to ask the tough questi
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by cb18 10y ago
I'm sure somebody's tried it. But the differences are so large that no amount of statistical trickery is going to be able to make them go away. http://www.infowars.com/black-crime-facts-that-the-white-lib... One m
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by cb18 10y ago
In the US there are groups of poor whites and poor blacks, the crime rates are not the same, they exhibit stark differences.

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