Steve QJ
1 min readFeb 16, 2022

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šŸ˜… I donā€™t have a lab where I can verify my genealogy independently. Yet I'm 99.98% sure that you, and everybody else who has ever laid eyes on me, would agree that Iā€™m not white.

I donā€™t have a lab where I can verify the probability that a coin will land on its edge independently. But I still say ā€œheads or tails,ā€ when I flip one, because 99.98% of the time it will be one of the first two options.

And no, I donā€™t have a lab where I can verify my, or anybody elseā€™s sex independently. I don't need one. Because 99.98% of the time, it's possible to tell at a glance. Most people master this feat of observation by the time theyā€™re around three months old.

If your entire argument hinges on pretending that youā€™re too dumb to understand all of this, consider the possibility that it's a not a good argument. It's possible to be kind and to simultaneously be honest.

I mean, I donā€™t have a lab where I can verify that you're being wilfully disingenuous. But Iā€™m 99.98% sure that you are.

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Steve QJ
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