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me: It's frustrating to share an opinion with so many idiots.
Rachel: but you're a libertarian, shouldn't you be used to that?

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"I will not claim causation, but I will say that there is a strong and avid correlation between bigotry and stupid."- Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Quote from a commenter on that same post: I was going to write "privilege can make you stupid", but that isn't right. We all start out stupid. Privilege allows you to stay stupid.