Conflate

There's a tendency to conflate proposing a solution with actually solving the problem. I think it's important to differentiate between the two.

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“Bacon was Lord Chancellor of England and the first European to experiment with gunpowder.” — “No, you are conflating Francis Bacon and Roger Bacon.”

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But in reality, the order simply furthers the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies by continuing to conflate immigration issues with criminal ones.

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But again, this conflates global geographic variation with race, says Alan Goodman, a biological anthropologist at Hampshire College.

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