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how to argue with a racist

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What this book knows

Racism's scientific-sounding arguments collapse under genetics: human populations are too mixed, ancient, and complex for racial hierarchies to hold.

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The whole science of human genetics was founded by racists, and singularly has become the field that has demolished the case for racism.
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Galton proposed Chinese settlers 'supplant the inferior Negro race'—among the most explicit statements of scientific racism's founding prejudice.
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self-and-identity

Concepts of racial purity are ahistorical and pseudoscientific. People move and reproduce with great vigor, and admixture is the rule.
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If you were alive in tenth-century Europe and have descendants today, you are the ancestor of all Europeans alive today.
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mind-and-cognition

Polygenic scores affirm intelligence is heritable within a population, but are not adept at dissecting differences between populations.
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The brain is possibly the most complex object in the known universe; simple answers about race and intelligence were never going to be forthcoming.
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