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I don't understand the point of this comment. It does not bolster your comment I replied to, nor does it argue against my own. Are you starting a new, differen
by colanderman 7y ago
I don't understand the point of this comment. It does not bolster your comment I replied to, nor does it argue against my own.
Are you starting a new, different argument, and now claiming that systemic racism doesn't exist, and that large bodies of research about it are unfounded, and supporting your claim with a single pithy statement about statistics?
If so, sorry, I don't feel like being dragged into an off-topic argument about whether the concept of systemic racism is valid.
- alfromspace 7y agoAbsolutely I am. The "bodies of research" about it do little more than point out things like prison population statistics and sentencing disparities that have almost nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with crime rates and priors. I equally don't feel like being dragged into pseudo-scientific political formulations that cast unequal distributions of resources and outcomes in life as forms of systemic discrimination.
- tzakrajs 7y ago@dang This is flame bait.
- alfromspace 7y agoWow, just wow. Did you really just say that? Can you just not. I can't even.
- imtringued 7y agoIf there is systemic racism then it would exist through the approval of laws that disproportionately affect minorities, not through the actions of individuals who are merely guided by the system. Because the solutions are obvious but unacceptable (even to those who are discriminated against) I don't think we will make any progress on this front.