Leading the young astray

Good Omens as gateway fantasy

Thanx to Tor.com.

Race is a social construct

When the liberal says "race is a social construct," he is not being a soft-headed dolt; he is speaking an historical truth. We do not go around testing the "Irish race" for intelligence or the "Southern race" for "hot-headedness." These reasons are social. It is no more legitimate to ask "Is the black race dumber than then white race?" than it is to ask "Is the Jewish race thriftier than the Arab race?"

--Ta-Nehisi Coates. Read the whole thing..

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Happy birthday, akirlu. I don't know if it's anybody else's birthday because lj is malfunctioning, presumably as a result of unprotected contact with Facebook.

I posted this to dw because lj will accept crossposts but not direct posts.