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What is something that only exists because people are stupid? (lemmy.world)

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[-] Zier@fedia.io 46 points 6 days ago

Racism Sexism

[-] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

Smart people can be and often are racist and sexist too. They are better at justifying it too. Scientific racism is an existing pseudoscience.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 12 points 5 days ago

I hear your point, but they are not that smart if they think skin color determines the value of a human. Same for sex.

[-] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

This is a good definition of smart. Agreed.

[-] MITM0@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Smart people don't do that, otherwise they wouldn't be smart

[-] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Fair point. I stand corrected

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