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milk_wolf_honeyon A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette

Yes, this is exactly the kind of garbage that Quillette peddles. "Look, can't you be reasonable, can't we just discuss the reasonable possibility that blacks are cognitively inferior to whites like reasonable people?"

Hi dang, can we please get bans for people trying to mainstream racist pseudoscience on HN?

milk_wolf_honeyon A Profile of Claire Lehmann of Quillette

http://quillette.com/2017/03/27/a-tale-of-two-bell-curves/

Plenty of "human biodiversity" (neo-race science) nonsense like this floating around. The back half of the article amounts to the authors taking the premise that blacks are cognitively inferior to whites as a given, and then throwing up their hands and saying "Look, we examined the evidence, and the only explanation that makes sense is that they're genetically inferior!", complete with laments for poor social science researchers who have been unfairly persecuted for their objective, scientifically-minded investigations into the reasons why black people are just so damn stupid.

milk_wolf_honeyon California Based P2P Trader Convicted of Illegal Money Transmission

localbitcoins.com has been on the radar of federal law enforcement for years. They routinely did (and maybe do) stings off the site to catch unlicensed traders. If I were the site's operators I'd be extremely wary of ever traveling to the United States.