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“These things are tools. They’re neither good or bad, inherently—it’s what we do with them,” he said.

"We would like to see public health messaging shift away from the narrative that gluten is inherently harmful, as this research shows that this often isn't the case," she said.

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It specifies that individuals of a certain race shouldn’t be portrayed as inherently racist, “whether consciously or unconsciously.”

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Undocumented immigrants, for example, are often portrayed as inherently evil.

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"All these things the insurers say sound reasonable, but are tantamount to saying disabled people are an unusual case, and that their lives are inherently riskier."

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