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>Why does it always seem like the people who are on the “margin of culpability” always minorities? Because that is the only time it makes the news. It sort of

by yucky 5y ago

>Why does it always seem like the people who are on the “margin of culpability” always minorities? Because that is the only time it makes the news. It sort of follows with Coulter's Law which states roughly that if the race of a suspect isn't initially mentioned, they are non-white. >There are plenty of statistics showing minorities are stopped at a higher rate, convicted more harshly, face higher bail, etc for the same crime when you control for everything else. I actually used to assume this to be true. However, when you factor for income level of suspects, the variance disappears. This is probably why you almost never see black millionaires in prison. Even with Bill Cosby it took hundreds of allegations across over 40 years before he did time. Because he had money.

scarface74 5y ago
How do police know the income levels of minorities when they are being pulled over more? The police definitely don’t know my household income level (I work remotely for $BigTech and I make over twice the median income in my county) when they see my 6 foot 3 son walking through our neighborhood back to our house in a county that’s only 3.9% Black and stopped him to question him twice.
- yucky 5y ago
  I think you have a mental block on the subject due to solely comparing black to white, and assuming that since whites are the majority that it must mean the system is giving them preference because they're white and that it's systemic racism. For this to be true though, whites would also have the same advantages over Asians, but it's the opposite. So logically does that mean whites are discriminated against more than Asians, since that is what the numbers say? Or is it maybe that different cultures are more or less likely than others to do things that warrant police attention? Another example of your logical fallacy is comparing men vs women. There are HUGE disparities in police interactions between men and women, is it because of sexism or is it possible that one gender reacts more aggressively during interactions with police on average..?

by yucky 5y ago

scarface74 5y ago

How do police know the income levels of minorities when they are being pulled over more? The police definitely don’t know my household income level (I work remotely for $BigTech and I make over twice the median income in my county) when they see my 6 foot 3 son walking through our neighborhood back to our house in a county that’s only 3.9% Black and stopped him to question him twice.

yucky 5y ago
I think you have a mental block on the subject due to solely comparing black to white, and assuming that since whites are the majority that it must mean the system is giving them preference because they're white and that it's systemic racism. For this to be true though, whites would also have the same advantages over Asians, but it's the opposite. So logically does that mean whites are discriminated against more than Asians, since that is what the numbers say? Or is it maybe that different cultures are more or less likely than others to do things that warrant police attention? Another example of your logical fallacy is comparing men vs women. There are HUGE disparities in police interactions between men and women, is it because of sexism or is it possible that one gender reacts more aggressively during interactions with police on average..?