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Comment author: ChristianKl 14 October 2015 05:51:06PM 2 points [-]

If your treatment of people is based on tribal allegiances, real or imagined, instead of what they've actually done, you're a bigot.

Anybody who treats family members such as cousins differently because they are family is a bigot?

Comment author: Jiro 14 October 2015 06:00:36PM 2 points [-]

Look at all the effective altruism and utilitarian arguments that basically imply that you should consider the welfare of all people in the world equally and that putting more weight on yourself, your family, and people who are close to you or who resemble you is just not something that rational people are supposed to be doing.

And then they get called bigots, and then bigots get banned....