343 w/ Mike Pesca (ex-Slate, The Gist podcast) "Inexplicable Offense, Boring Exile, Triumphant Return"
The Fifth Column
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Race Is Not a Risk Factor
If i were elected official, and this ill tell you where my politics are. I just think that there's no medical classification. What medical condition is blackness or whiteness or any otherness? It isn't. As far as i know. But what we know here is that race is not a risk factor. Race is a crude proxy for actual things that correlate with actual things that are, in fact, risk factors. And now every numb skull on the internet is running around like talking about how, well, you know, sickl selothemia is something that really mostly affects black people. That's not it works. This stuff has evven, waiting to come to the
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