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Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness
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Discrimination exists everywhere in the world. I don’t care how utopian you think your European nation is, you are not immune. If you think you don’t have any prejudices and that it isn’t a problem where you live, then the problem is actually worse than you think.
You're ignoring the fact I wrote "which is not to say that those areas can’t be or aren’t quite racist". The racism, no matter how heinous, if it can only affect a smaller percentage of the population, or those who aren't even the citizens of the country (as it happens with migrants from the Middle East and north Africa), cannot have much to do with the mental illnesses of European teenagers accross all social and ethnic groups.
I do not get the impression you're even trying to argue against my or Haidt's position at this point, you've simply waved away all the arguments he has brought up, and now are ignoring entire sentences from my comments.
That is a pretty uncharitable way to describe what I’ve written.
As opposed to ignoring a whole sentence that I wrote in order to make me come off as if I deny the existence of racism?
Maybe you shouldn’t downplay the existence of racism due to racial homogeneity by handwaving it away and some vague appeal to “stats” you don’t have next time? I don’t know what else to tell you.