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>>> You seem to be defending the thesis in the original comment

> Even if height discrimination and racism are both instances of prejudice based on immutable characteristics, there are very important differences between them.

I meant what I said. You claimed that one of the differences between heightism and racism is that "The shortness of men (barring outright dwarfism) has never been the object of widespread theories about their fundamental inferiority". That claim is blatantly false. Why did you make it?



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