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> I don't know about stealing but is it not the case that most sex offenders are men? That seems like an actual risk wherase the accusations at play in racism a
by Ginden 5y ago
> I don't know about stealing but is it not the case that most sex offenders are men? That seems like an actual risk wherase the accusations at play in racism are just made up.
This conclusion seems to be quite controversial, because race is correlated with certain crimes in terms of "actual risk". It's likely because of social factors (because eg. black immigrants to US aren't significantly more likely to commit crimes than white immigrants to US, even after controlling for education), but it doesn't change "actual risk".
If you argue that "actual risk" means actually "choice between two identical people, with skin color being only variable, after ideal control for socioeconomic factors", you should prove that of "identical people, with gender being only variable, after ideal control for socioeconomic factors" man is more likely to commit sexual crime.
Personally I would argue that both race-crime and gender-crime statistics are largely or completely due to social factors.
- raffraffraff 5y agoEvery city, state, country has is it's own unique distribution of races and classes (muddled together in different ways) and each has its own level of systemic racism, even affecting different races wherever you go. I don't think you can draw any concrete conclusions about race from crime statistics. Males, in the other hand, exist across countries, races, creeds, cultures, social and economic classes etc. We can absolutely look at male crime statistics across the board and say whether or not they're different from the statistics for females.
- guerrilla 5y agoThis is an insightful point. > Personally I would argue that both race-crime and gender-crime statistics are largely or completely due to social factors. I think this is probably right too, but which social factors are you thinking about when it comes to sex offenses?
- Ginden 5y agoI think sex offenses are strongly related to "toxic masculinity" mindset (though, I don't like that name).
- Jensson 5y agoWhy would you think that? The typical sex offender has a very clean façade, they are often social justice champions themselves because that makes it easier for them to hide what they do.