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You can't accept bias etc and then make this statement "On an individual basis, every fuckwit locked up for violent crimes deserves to be there". It makes no se
by te_chris 8y ago
You can't accept bias etc and then make this statement "On an individual basis, every fuckwit locked up for violent crimes deserves to be there".
It makes no sense to accept institutional racism at a macro level, because it makes you feel good, then dismiss it as a contributing factor at a micro level. It's an incredibly disingenuous position - worse than all the pink-faced jerks ranting on about 'bloody murries..'.
- iguy 8y agoYou can accept that bias exists, while denying that it explains very much of the difference. Again I know nothing about NZ, but in places where I've seen numbers, you can invariably show that the amount of bias in policing/sentencing statistically significantly different from zero... but also that is explains at most a few percent of the differences in violent crime convictions.