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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Awar... by ttt0 on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @10:57AM (#26890491)
> no one denies that 6-fingered humans are humans to start with

I see what your issue is. I haven't noticed this previously, but I think you're just attacking a straw man at this point. Rarely you can say something with 100% certainty and science takes account for that. It's fine to make generalizations. If we didn't do that and only sought absolute truths, we wouldn't get too far and it'd invalidate entire fields of science.

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Re:YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Awar... by anoncake on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @05:16PM (#26895549)
You cannot prove a hypothesis with 100% certainty, that is true. But you can falsify it – with even a single counterexample – and then you are certain it is false. Anything else is pseudoscience.

And it's particularly not okay to make generalizations about people. That's how you get sexism, sexism and other bigotry.

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