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To: YourAdHere

So, according to the CIA Worlds Factbook, the life expectancy in Zambia is 51.8 years. (For those of you not keeping track Zambia it is estimated the 0.5% is non-Black.)

Black folk in the US live to be 74.8.(National Vital Statistics Center)

So using this idiots reasoning, Zambia is rassis!


27 posted on 05/28/2015 8:09:27 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: Gamecock
So using this idiots reasoning, Zambia is rassis!

To be fair, that is NOT this idiot's reasoning.

That is your reasoning, and that reasoning is fallacious.

Your fallacy is called "affirming the consequent," sometimes also "converse error."

What you are arguing is analogous to asserting that areas with a high incidence of Bubonic Plague have high mortalities - and that areas of high mortality must therefore have a high incidence of Bubonic Plague. But there could be other reasons for the high mortality!

The people of Zambia might be the least-racist people on Earth. Their high mortality rate might have entirely different causes.

Regards,

60 posted on 05/28/2015 9:08:14 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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