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I don't think he is saying what you think he is saying. I took it more along the lines of we (free society) want to believe that anyone can be anything if they are given the right opportunities in life from birth. Someone could mistakenly take that to an extreme about whole classes of people but that's not what the comment was about IMO.

This is a really terrible comment. It adds nothing of value and completely misses the point of the parent post apparently just for the sake of weakly transplanting an overused unfunny meme from outside the community.

They're saying that people seem to fail to acknowledge how much our genes determine who we are because it can feel like a scary disconnect from free will.