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This would be a very good time to break out the systems-level thinking and apply it to racism in policing. In particular, the idea that if individual racism is
by aaron-santos 5y ago
This would be a very good time to break out the systems-level thinking and apply it to racism in policing. In particular, the idea that if individual racism is low implies that racism is also low the composition of those individuals is a fallacy of composition.
- roenxi 5y agoSo, the NYPD is hiring a most of their workforce from minorities, who are then banding together to support systemic racism, because I am making the fallacy of composition? I'll admit my argument here isn't proven with academic rigour, but the NYPD isn't the racist actor in the current narrative.
- ghufran_syed 5y agoYou mean it could be a “fallacy of composition” - if you provided some evidence for the claim that a group of likely non-racist individuals are nevertheless racist as a group - whatever that means.
- aaron-santos 5y agoIf the argument is that low individual racism implies low systemic racism of the group then I very clearly mean yes it is a fallacy of composition. I want to disentangle the idea that a fallacious requires implies a judgement of the truth value of the argument. It doesn't. It just means that avenue of reasoning is flawed. There may be other ways of proving that the NYPD is not as a group racist, but by arguing by way of individuals is not one of them.