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It raises questions of systemic injustice. If there is a demographic discrepancy, it is worth asking why.

• noofen 6y ago
  > If there is a demographic discrepancy, it is worth asking why. The answer is minorities are notorious bad drivers. The Indians across the street from me do not know they can turn the wheel while in reverse. Every day, for the past year, I see them making 3-4 point turns to get in and out of the drive way. > It raises questions of systemic injustice. Of course it does. Ignore the true cause, and find someone in the "system" to blame. As long as they're white enough.
• ryandvm 6y ago
  Ugh. At least in the US, we already know why. Due to a pretty dark and nasty history of race-based subjugation; race and inequality were tightly intertwined in this country and we're still untangling it to this day. So... since finance is an integral component of pretty much every social interaction, economic inequality rears it's head everywhere. Correlation seems like causation and all that, which means that if every single issue is looked at through the lens of "is this racist?" the result is always "uh oh, maybe it is." I dunno. Seems to me that constantly re-casting economic inequality issues as racial inequality issues is going go to make race relations worse rather than better...