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 fun fact

the word negative, and the word negro or nigger, are related to the latin word "negatus"

dark things absorb, light things reflect

thus dark is negative, light is positive

positive, is from the latin "positivus" which means "placed"

so, you are supposed to orient from the positive, and away from it is the negative

thus goodness is light, evil is darkness, because light comes from emitters of light and reflected, where darkness is from objects stolen (absorbed) by dark things - or blocked

the whole race debate is literally trying to undo the meaning of these critical concepts that the very centre of are ... the axioms of logic