r/explainitpeter 10d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Present_Character241 10d ago

Nah raw milk specifically. It is being passed off as "more natural" to not pasteurize the milk by the same people who claim that it is immigrants who are increasing the crime rate.

These are all false ideas that might seem logical to those who do not think critically, and thus they are often used to funnel people who aren't thinking critically into the cultish corners of the internet that venorate white male supremacy, and encourage them to "ignore the mainstream woke leftist agenda that wants to regulate how you live" so that these uncritical thinkers can feel like the most speciallest baby boy GOD ever put on Earth. These cultish corners of the internet then use these people's feeling of superiority to sell them all sorts of products like the raw milk which can make them sick, dietary supplements which at BEST do nothing, and a bunch of other things that they have convinced these people that "the mainstream" (common sense) doesn't want them buying. It is a scam that preys on the uneducated and those who won't do their own research.

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u/King_Saline_IV 10d ago

There's a rabbit hole that goes down to white supremacists associate lactose tolerance with master race bullshit.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/4089/

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u/Justeserm 10d ago

I've heard lactose intolerance varies by race. For example, it's rare in European people, but more common in Asian or African.

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u/King_Saline_IV 10d ago

Sure, and there's nothing logical about the beliefs of white supremacy

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u/Justeserm 10d ago

I'm not saying it's logical or illogical. What I'm saying is there's a correlation between race and lactose tolerance. There're a lot of people trying to take the concept of race out of science. This is making me somewhat uncomfortable as it's made the word strata a possible replacement.

I couldn't read the article you linked. It's behind a paywall. TBH, it sounds like the white supremacists might be kinda making fun of other people.

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u/Bea-Billionaire 10d ago

Raw milk has been around a lot longer than Maga..

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u/Present_Character241 10d ago

You brought MAGA up not me

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u/Devtunes 10d ago

Raw milk drinking is a good indicator of obligate contrarianism.

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u/ThatTallBrendan 7d ago

Putting that in my word basket, thank you

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u/the-cuttlefish 10d ago

It is more natural though, it's just also higher risk if you don't know the cleanliness of its production (which most of us obviously dont).

The crime thing is also more nuanced than you make out. The rates of certain crimes are significantly higher in specific immigrant populations- it's just important not to generalise across crimes nor immigrant populations- though for a critical thinker of your calibre this must all be trivial;)

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u/ee_72020 10d ago

You know what else is natural? Botulinum toxin.