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Of course it's borne out by the numbers - if you accept a priori that black people are no less intelligent or moral than white people. If two populations are eq
by beat 10y ago
Of course it's borne out by the numbers - if you accept a priori that black people are no less intelligent or moral than white people. If two populations are equal, yet one is imprisoned at a much higher rate than the other, an external cause (institutional racism) is the only rational explanation.
The alternative would be to just say that black people are inherently inferior to whites, and that's why they're more criminal. But I don't think you want to go there, do you?
- gozur88 10y ago>If two populations are equal, yet one is imprisoned at a much higher rate than the other, an external cause (institutional racism) is the only rational explanation. We know that's not the case. Violent crimes have victims. Whatever the explanation is, blacks in the US commit more violent crimes than whites by a factor of four. We're not playing in the margin of error here.