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Comment author: ChristianKl 07 January 2014 10:03:24PM 4 points [-]

Being able to say that certain races are statistically more violent and less intelligent than others has historically been correlated with lynch mobs and skewed priorities when making arrests.

But that's qualitatively different from the way a lot of people who are religious are wrong. Religious people are often wrong on many factual questions.

On Lesswrong I would see no case where religious views should get forbidden because they are dangerous and religious people do awful things.