

Honestly I don’t think anyone ever really gets over anyone. They just move on. I feel like I love everyone I’ve ever loved exactly the same amount as I did at the peak of our closeness, even those I had a big falling out with and haven’t spoken to in years. Being conscious of this fact is both kind of beautiful and tremendously painful and embarrassing.
That definition of dumb is extremely limited, you know that people aren’t referring to raw cognitive ability when they call someone dumb or stupid. The word is bigger than that and is used to describe, among other things, exactly them kind of willful ignorance or intellectual laziness that you described the race science guys as displaying. As another poster said, there is no group of marginalized people self-identified or medically classified as “dumb” and there hasn’t been for like two centuries.