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> that has nothing to do with the risk itself being there for everyone Your words there are clear, and correct. > it has nothing to do with race. Your claim

> that has nothing to do with the risk itself being there for everyone Your words there are clear, and correct. > it has nothing to do with race. Your claim there was unclear (what is "it"?) but appeared to be making far too broad a claim. If "it" is "the degree of worry that you might be falsely convicted", then you're simply wrong: race is a very significant factor in that degree of worry, at least in the USA. I guess you believe that the baseline degree of worry for white people and black/latino people alike is so unacceptably high that the additional worry attributable to race is irrelevant. To be blunt, I think that is both unsympathetic and neurotic, and I think you might want to consider whether you really have enough knowledge of what life is like for black people in US cities. I am no expert there either, but I err on the side of believing them when they say that there is a non-negligible component of worry attributable to race.

luckylion 7y ago
> If "it" is "the degree of worry that you might be falsely convicted", then you're simply wrong: race is a very significant factor in that degree of worry, at least in the USA. It is the risk being too high. It's higher for a poor black man than for a rich white woman, but it's too high even for the rich white woman to talk to the police when she's a suspect. It's too high for everyone. Please don't turn this site into a "acknowledge your privilege, heathen"-Twitter-clone. Read what people write, assume good faith, and if you don't understand something, ask. Don't just go "hey, I choose to ignore 90% of what you wrote, make up the gaps in my head and then reply to that". If anyone wanted that, there are Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.
- Myrmornis 7y ago
  I’ve read and understood everything you’ve written. I think your contention that the baseline risk for all is so high that it renders the additional contributions due to race etc to be irrelevant, is absurd, unsympathetic, and neurotic.

luckylion 7y ago

> If "it" is "the degree of worry that you might be falsely convicted", then you're simply wrong: race is a very significant factor in that degree of worry, at least in the USA. It is the risk being too high. It's higher for a poor black man than for a rich white woman, but it's too high even for the rich white woman to talk to the police when she's a suspect. It's too high for everyone. Please don't turn this site into a "acknowledge your privilege, heathen"-Twitter-clone. Read what people write, assume good faith, and if you don't understand something, ask. Don't just go "hey, I choose to ignore 90% of what you wrote, make up the gaps in my head and then reply to that". If anyone wanted that, there are Twitter, Facebook and Reddit.

Myrmornis 7y ago
I’ve read and understood everything you’ve written. I think your contention that the baseline risk for all is so high that it renders the additional contributions due to race etc to be irrelevant, is absurd, unsympathetic, and neurotic.