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Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

When people talk about fake news, you know, a lot of folks just roll their eyes, like 'Oh, you know, whatever; people will figure it out.' The truth is, they don't always figure it out.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.