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		mynameishere on March 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Books and Music That Make You Dumb The "but" seems to imply that he nonetheless thinks that intelligence is effecting taste. I don't know. I've been shocked by some relatively intelligent people with atrocious taste in things, but it wouldn't be a shocker if the idiots really did like "Lil Wayne" because they're idiots. I mean, jesus fucking christ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owwSHg1fivM

scott_s on March 3, 2009 [–]

I read it in the opposite way: it's so obvious that this is just a correlation and not causation that he feels silly explicitly stating it.

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