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It’s anecdotal but so was most of what you’d see for these issues on Reddit in the mid-late 10s. You’d routinely see stories like “this black immigrant student got into every college”, “this person was jailed for racist violence”, “this person was a victim of racist violence”, “TIL about Black Wall Street”, “this person was the recipient of anti-immigrant violence”. Selectively positive and negative anecdota have a big impact on opinion because a normal person simply assumes that they represent reality, like how a person who watches K-Dramas might unconsciously develop a positive image of South Korea. And many of the anecdotes on Reddit were never really verified anyway.
The story of deprave cultural practices in Africa is the balance to the curated stories of positive cultural practices in Africa or negative cultural practices of colonists in Africa. There’s not really rational grounds to consider one witchy and the other run of the mill
Where amusingly, sometimes you'd see some pesky wrong-thinker ask something like "would have an Asian or white applicant experienced a similar result?" and get dogpiled and downvoted into the shadow realm.
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