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Controversial Blogger Posts Black Women Are Less Attractive & Gets Fired

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Satoshi Kanazawa
Psychology Today kicked contributing blogger, Satoshi Kanazawa to the curb after he published a controversial post on May 15, 2011 claiming that Black women are physically less attractive than other women.

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The post was widely ridiculed and discredited by many academics for being biased and lacking any scientific grounding, according to numerous reports. His post was then removed.
Kaja Perina, Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today posted an apology for the article on May 27, 2011:

“Last week, a blog post about race and appearance by Satoshi Kanazawa was published–and promptly removed–from this site. We deeply apologize for the pain and offense that this post caused. Psychology Today’s mission is to inform the public, not to provide a platform for inflammatory and offensive material. Psychology Today does not tolerate racism or prejudice of any sort. The post was not approved by Psychology Today, but we take full responsibility for its publication on our site. We have taken measures to ensure that such an incident does not occur again. Again, we are deeply sorry for the hurt that this post caused.”

Kanazawa published other works like, "Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters" and  "Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?"

He's been writing this way for several years with Psychology Today and they're now letting him go?

(His original blog post can be found HERE)

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