• discomatic@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Studies have shown that racism is often caused by a lack of intelligence, so we’ve basically got a ton of idiots in the armed forces? That tracks.

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      2 hours ago

      Studies have shown that racism is often caused by a lack of intelligence

      Social scientists don’t speak in such certain terms. I think what you may mean is, anecdotally, the people you’ve seen be racist seem unintelligent. Me too. But the answer to get rid of racism isn’t to get rid of unintelligent people. It’s more complicated than that. Hearing anecdotal experience disguised as scientific evidence (“studies have shown X is caused by Y”) feels like reddit not Lemmy