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Yeah. The ultimate goal of such redefinitions is to imply that some groups' problems are inherently more important, more worth addressing. But that's not true.

Yeah. The ultimate goal of such redefinitions is to imply that some groups' problems are inherently more important, more worth addressing. But that's not true. All suffering is suffering.

caseysoftware 11y ago
It has become the Oppression Special Olympics.
memonkey 11y ago
I don't know. Is going to jail based on your race suffering more or less than not getting into Harvard because of your race? I tend to agree with OP's comment, but one important aspect is left out when talking about things like this: Class.
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- omonra 11y ago
  I'd like to call out your casual mentioning of someone's race being responsible for them going to jail. That's not really what happens - rather that someone breaks the law and goes to jail. I'm not aware of law-abiding members of any race going to jail (while the article demonstrates that Asians who do everything same as whites or blacks have no chance of getting into Harvard).
  - jackpirate 11y ago
    Everyone breaks the law. Some people get disproportionate punishment. So while your statement is true, it entirely misses the point.
    - omonra 11y ago
      This is a factually unsupported assertion. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=4582#.VhC1fWSrS2w http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=458...
      - jackpirate 11y ago
        From your article: > In 2006, the black arrest rate for most crimes was two to nearly three times blacks’ representation in the population. Blacks constituted 39.3% of all violent-crime arrests, including 56.3% of all robbery and 34.5% of all aggravated-assault arrests, and 29.4% of all property-crime arrests. This paragraph is presupposing that the arrest process is fair to assert that blacks deserve their higher prison sentences.
        omonra 11y ago
        I'm not sure if you missed these two points: "From 1976 to 2005, blacks committed more than 52% of all murders in America." and "The advocates acknowledge such crime data only indirectly: by charging bias on the part of the system’s decision makers. As Obama suggested in the Martin Luther King debate, police, prosecutors and judges treat blacks and whites differently “for the same crime.” But in fact, cops don’t over-arrest blacks and ignore white criminals. The race of criminals reported by crime victims matches arrest data. No one has ever come up with a plausible argument as to why crime victims would be biased in their reports." The simple truth of the matter (which our entire discussion boils down to) is that blacks commit crime at a rate vastly exceeding other groups. For more stats please see: http://www.infowars.com/black-crime-facts-that-the-white-liberal-media-darent-talk-about/ http://www.infowars.com/black-crime-facts-that-the-white-lib...
        mazerackham 11y ago
        Lol, I believe that cops DEFINITELY over-arrest blacks. After Ferguson and a huge WAVE of black people dying unfairly at the hands of police officers, you can read a lot of articles online where highly educated black men (ivy league) write about how they get pulled over by a cop once every 1-2 weeks for NOTHING (except for being black). Think about that, once every 1-2 weeks. I've been pulled over 3 times in my life. Twice for speeding, once for a broken tail light.

Yeah. The ultimate goal of such redefinitions is to imply that some groups' problems are inherently more important, more worth addressing. But that's not true. All suffering is suffering.

caseysoftware 11y ago

It has become the Oppression Special Olympics.

memonkey 11y ago

I don't know. Is going to jail based on your race suffering more or less than not getting into Harvard because of your race? I tend to agree with OP's comment, but one important aspect is left out when talking about things like this: Class.

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omonra 11y ago
I'd like to call out your casual mentioning of someone's race being responsible for them going to jail. That's not really what happens - rather that someone breaks the law and goes to jail. I'm not aware of law-abiding members of any race going to jail (while the article demonstrates that Asians who do everything same as whites or blacks have no chance of getting into Harvard).
- jackpirate 11y ago
  Everyone breaks the law. Some people get disproportionate punishment. So while your statement is true, it entirely misses the point.
  - omonra 11y ago
    This is a factually unsupported assertion. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=4582#.VhC1fWSrS2w http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=458...
    - jackpirate 11y ago
      From your article: > In 2006, the black arrest rate for most crimes was two to nearly three times blacks’ representation in the population. Blacks constituted 39.3% of all violent-crime arrests, including 56.3% of all robbery and 34.5% of all aggravated-assault arrests, and 29.4% of all property-crime arrests. This paragraph is presupposing that the arrest process is fair to assert that blacks deserve their higher prison sentences.
      - omonra 11y ago
        I'm not sure if you missed these two points: "From 1976 to 2005, blacks committed more than 52% of all murders in America." and "The advocates acknowledge such crime data only indirectly: by charging bias on the part of the system’s decision makers. As Obama suggested in the Martin Luther King debate, police, prosecutors and judges treat blacks and whites differently “for the same crime.” But in fact, cops don’t over-arrest blacks and ignore white criminals. The race of criminals reported by crime victims matches arrest data. No one has ever come up with a plausible argument as to why crime victims would be biased in their reports." The simple truth of the matter (which our entire discussion boils down to) is that blacks commit crime at a rate vastly exceeding other groups. For more stats please see: http://www.infowars.com/black-crime-facts-that-the-white-liberal-media-darent-talk-about/ http://www.infowars.com/black-crime-facts-that-the-white-lib...
        mazerackham 11y ago
        Lol, I believe that cops DEFINITELY over-arrest blacks. After Ferguson and a huge WAVE of black people dying unfairly at the hands of police officers, you can read a lot of articles online where highly educated black men (ivy league) write about how they get pulled over by a cop once every 1-2 weeks for NOTHING (except for being black). Think about that, once every 1-2 weeks. I've been pulled over 3 times in my life. Twice for speeding, once for a broken tail light.