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kleinbl00  ·  2334 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Justin Murphy: On turning left into darkness

Charles Murray is a racist shithead. By engaging the "intellectual" through a frame of "research" you ignore the remarkable curve-fitting performed by Murray - if your core argument is that people fail because they're inferior, the rest of us do not benefit from acting as if you've contributed to the conversation.

Unfortunately, most of these discussions are basically finches squawking at each other. If you can't say what you're trying to say in such a way that your waitress understands you, you have nothing to say.