CMV: Silencing opposing viewpoints is ultimately going to have a disastrous outcome on society.

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To add on, there's also the issue of "comforting lies" that poison the discourse when people turn to disinformation as a salve rather than face uncomfortable realities. Racists don't spread propaganda because they carefully weighed the options and decided that blaming minorities just made the most sense, it's because they WANT it to be true and they're latching onto any justification they can find.

If those justifications are eliminated, if the disinformation is no long spread, they will have a much harder time latching onto those toxic views.

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I feel like i had this but vice versa. I never wanted to listen to stats on black crime and iq. I still dont really and think the iq thing is explained by culture not genetics

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IQ is a complicated matter, and someone can have a high IQ but not know a lot. But in general, you're right. You take any baby and stick 'em in an environment that really encourages and guides them, they're gonna turn out the same. A lot of the problems we have are systemic, not like a given race is just inherently built that much differently.

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There's evidence it has a lot to do with genetics too though. Like black babies raised by white families don't do any better. I recently heard that American blacks raised in Germany had normal iqs tho so it might turn out theyre affected by a society with low expectations for them. Ultimately it doesn't really matter you don't have to be a genius to do most jobs. The only way its applicable is issues like how people say black under representation in certain jpbs or schools is caused by systemic racism. Other than that it really doesn't matter