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Why is it less of a surprise?

• mcv 6y ago
  More poverty, combined with expensive health care. Also, apparently black people are more likely to get shot.
  • bobthepanda 6y ago
    Also, there have been studies that show that doctors generally consider black people to have higher pain tolerance and also doubt their reported symptoms more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/racial-disparities-seen-in-how-doctors-treat-pain-even-among-children/2020/07/10/265e77d6-b626-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html?outputType=amp https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/racial-disparities-see...
    • mcv 6y ago
      They also do that with women, apparently.
      • lofi_lory 6y ago
        Tho, one is a myth and straight racism; the other comes with women being chronically understudied. E.g. heart attack symptoms are different, some medication does work differently, women do need less vaccines, and so on. The mere assumption of "black" people's biology to differ much, is uneducated and bigoted legacy crap, while women really do have a different metabolism and body then men, which is also known. Not saying one failure is better than the other, really... just different issues.
        • mcv 6y ago
          I think they're related and they're both terrible. It takes white men as the standard and everybody who differs from that is of lesser concern. Of course there are differences in details; black people assumed to be different in ways they aren't, while with women known differences are ignored. Either way, they're not taken seriously.