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medee

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    Comment #23986111

    >Would you feel comfortable that you still have your job and your reputation after going in front of the nation and saying "I think interracial marriages should be illegal"? That's…

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    Comment #23878558

    > Is it really a bad thing to not know algebra at the 8th grade? Knowing it is a better thing

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    Comment #23765102

    Competition for reproduction and resources between groups of genetically proximate organisms is the history of "life".

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    Comment #23765080

    I wonder why the real number isn't known.

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    Comment #23765061

    This idea that there was historical disadvantage to the Irish comes from a single photograph of a sign that says "Irish Need Not Apply". This is the equivalent of putting an indivi…

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    Comment #23764622

    Another interesting stat- 55% of Harvard graduate students are Jewish. https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/harvard-uni...

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    Comment #23671633

    Race isn't skin color, though [1]. Self-identified race maps to distinct genetic clusters with >99.8% accuracy [2]. 1: https://i.imgur.com/0uyOA.jpg 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov…

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    Comment #23671181

    Your statement is like claiming there is no scientific basis for family. Two people of the same race are more genetically related than half-siblings born to the same father and mot…

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    Comment #23655371

    Our knowledge of crime rates doesn't come form arrest records, but rather victims surveys. Yes, we know that certain neighborhoods/populations have higher rates of crime and not ju…

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    Comment #23270132

    Wealth can be used to boost anything. The ability to boost things you want is what makes wealth wealth.

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    Comment #23270127

    The SAT is intended as a metric for someone's future ability to achieve the things that constitute wealth, so it's good to hear they correlate. That's the entire purpose of it.

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    Comment #23270079

    Can you link the academic, journalist, politician, author, or executive who made the argument you're quoting, that slavery is good?

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    Comment #23244198

    He was probably using the word "man" in reference to Fox's biological sex rather than gender identity.

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    Comment #23200811

    There should be a bounty where any prisoner who solves one of the millennium problems is granted freedom. I feel like it'd help to reduce violence and focus the purposelessness of …