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Robert Lindsay
Jan 08, 2025
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This is funny. First three free subscribers quit after What Causes High Levels of Black Social Pathology? I guess they think it’s racist! As far as I can tell, that article is that straight up factual. Show me one thing in that article that’s not based on facts. One thing. I’m waiting.

I’ll admit that an idea of that Black social pathologies may well be biological is a controversial opinion, but that’s an opinion, not a fact. And it’s a pretty damn well sourced opinion, too.

It’s also a completely reasonable hypothesis in a debate about the etiology of these pathologies. Are they biological or are they caused by culture? And anyway culture is downstream of biology.

But both hypotheses are excellent proposals. I don’t think either one is unreasonable or racist. It’s simply a debate in science, that’s all.

Then I went on a lengthy tangent about the tremendous power of culture is changing human behavior.

The example was a Black African woman seen by early European explorers, as close to an…

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