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> Magically attributing significant qualities to people because of their race is racism. Magically attributing significant qualities to people because of highly salient surface characteristics is bigotry.

That's not what racism and bigotry mean.

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That's precisely what racism and bigotry mean. People who are trying to sell the new fake pseudo-mathematical equations are 1) guilty of the cringe-inducing pseudo-intellectualism of fake math and 2) pushing an identitarian politics where they can increase their own power through group-think and garner more attention by courting outrage.

>Racism: the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

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