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Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate black people. A third of black people will be incarcerated at some point in their lives. You're six time
by Quinner 5y ago
Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate black people. A third of black people will be incarcerated at some point in their lives. You're six times as likely to be incarcerated if you're black than if you're white.
- nickff 5y ago... And about ten or eleven times more likely to be incarcerated if you're male than female. Does this mean that the 'justice system' was twice as well 'designed to incarcerate' men? https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/genderinc.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/genderinc.html
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- beckman466 5y agothe point is that there is too much Sinaphobia in mainstream western news outlets that means global north countries' behavior is not proportionately called out. many stories about China are unfounded and dangerous, and mostly have to do with China being technologically strong.
- beckman466 5y agoSinophobia*
- whycombinater 5y ago93% are men, 7% women. Our criminal justice system is designed to incarcerate men. edit: High five to sibling comment.
- beckman466 5y agoyour point? both statistics are valid and relevant, and aren't mutually exclusive. weird comment. statistics aren't a game you win.
- belorn 5y agoI think the point is that the narrative that one choose to tell is based on which statistics one chooses to look at. I think looking at each statistics has value when viewed together, and I would add a third one to the mix. Race is somewhat a predictor for being incarcerated. Gender slightly stronger. Wealth is slightly stronger than that with a 20x time higher rate for the bottom 10% compared to the top 10%. For countries with high rate of refugees from specific regions on the planet, religion also becomes a predictor for incarceration.
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