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I’m fed up seeing this kind of shallow dismissal. This is a particularly egregious example; you are a hair away from saying “discrimination that affects <race>
by matthewmacleod 6y ago
I’m fed up seeing this kind of shallow dismissal. This is a particularly egregious example; you are a hair away from saying “discrimination that affects <race> disproportionately is not racist”.
I mean, you’re basically describing redlining (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining) - a textbook case of a “we all already agree that this is racist and it’s not particularly controversial” concept.
You don’t need a law that says “Black people can’t vote” in order to have racist policies!
- evgen 6y agoThe mechanism by which modern racists work is to find categories that are not strictly racial but which have a very strong racial correlation and then apply restrictions and barriers on this correlated category while claiming to not be acting with racial bias. What is changing is that people are starting to see right through these and courts are also starting to exhibit basic statistical literacy with regards to these tactics.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y ago73% of all arrests are male[0]. This imbalance does not mean that there is systemic bias against men, though. It means they commit more arrestable actions. [0] https://www.drugwarfacts.org/node/986 https://www.drugwarfacts.org/node/986
- matthewmacleod 6y agoThe goalposts are over here.
- TheAdamAndChe 6y agoI don't quite understand what you're trying to say here. Can you please clarify?