NancyLebovitz comments on Some Thoughts Are Too Dangerous For Brains to Think - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 13 July 2010 10:51:42PM 0 points [-]

The other problem with "using all you know" about groups which are subject to bigotry is that "we rule, you drool" is very basic human wiring, and there's apt to be some motivated cognition (in the people developing and giving you the information, even if you aren't engaging in it) on the subject.