I think it ' s $ 20 now . <| sep |> Hah , me too . The funny thing is , I ' m the lightest now around Thanksgiving than I ' ve been in probably the last 8 or so years . And I ' m not even a quarter of the way to my goal yet . <| sep |> Maybe he is just temporarily cooperating with them ? <| sep |> Reversed stupidity is not intelligence though . Racists have repugnant attitudes about a specific thing , but their beliefs don ' t anticorrelate with reality . Most basic facts about the world are agreed on by racists and nonracists alike . The problem is that empirical statements can become rallying cries for an ideological group if there ' s an opposing group with a commitment to disbelieving them . To say being gay is not a choice is a rallying cry against people who believe homosexuality is a sin and must therefore be an exercise of free will . And to say placing a commitment to always support marginalized groups over a commitment to seek the truth in an unbiased manner can hinder your ability to do both would be a rallying cry against people who believe that such a commitment can only be an unalloyed good . By supporting such a statement , you absolutely are at risk of being lumped in with racists and sexists , but it ' s not a risk that just passively exists , it ' s a risk that exists because people who don ' t want to see this as a statement reasonable people could believe or agree with have hedged themselves into a commitment to characterize anyone who agrees with it as racist or sexist . And if they ' re a powerful enough social force , the only people who ' ll stand behind such a claim are people who ' re not afraid to be so characterized .