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Fox News' Kilmeade: We "marry other species," Finns "pure"

The host compares Finland, Sweden's "pure society" to the U.S., where "we marry everybody"
Alex Koppelman

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  • Wednesday, July 8, 2009 01:03 PM

    He doesn't have a point

    Ignoring the whole another "species" bit (which is a gigantic elephant in the room if we do), he doesn't make sense genetically. A "pure" ethnicity would be more likely to have problems from recessive genetic diseases than a mixed population. Caucasians are more likely to carry the mutation(s) that cause cystic fibrosis for example.

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