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Re:The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty... by sliverstorm on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:51PM (#8468346)
The difference is that's a causality claim.

"Africa harbors exotic diseases" - fact

"IQ tests have conclusively shown there are differences between races" - fact

"The observed difference in IQ between races are because race X is genetically inferior" - causal speculation

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Re:The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty... by seanflyon on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:50PM (#8468342)
> how are black people not intellectually inferior?

If lower IQ test scores were the definition of intellectual inferiority then that would be the case.

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