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you can’t back a statement like that with hard, transparent data anyone can verify — and leave it open to be overturned when better evidence comes along — then you’re not doing truth, you’re doing branding. And branding is just another way to smuggle in permanent hierarchies under a joke or stereotype.

Code 19 exists for religion to self-check against that kind of drift. The democratic principles exist for civic life to do the same. Strip away those safeguards, and you’re just picking which bias you want carved into stone.