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Race 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
- jfengel 6y agoIt sounds like the commission was picked precisely to achieve this conclusion, by appointing members who had already said the same thing: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53428248 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-53428248 I honestly don't know how you solve the problem of picking objective people. It's a thorny problem and it's always possible to shade the statistics to show whatever you want it to show. What I'd like, at least, would be to have the headlines tailored to highly the differences from the predisposed conclusion. The headline here is spectacularly suspect: the entire point of accusations of systemic racism is that it's not deliberate. It's baked unconsciously into the system, in ways that make it hard to point to any individual incident but which collectively and consistently produce worse results for some people. Each thing that you point at seems not so bad, or "just one racist guy", but the effect adds up to be significant. So the words "not deliberately rigged" sounds precisely like the kind of thing designed to tell everybody that things are fine when it's not. Even just refocusing the headline to "Commission recommends things that can still be done about racism" is more productive, and true to the existing report.