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I think the lead pipes example is different because both the neighborhood structure and the lead are results of the same intentional racism. The classifier is
by prepend 3y ago
I think the lead pipes example is different because both the neighborhood structure and the lead are results of the same intentional racism.
The classifier is not the result of any racist action on behalf of the programmer.
It’s more like blaming a hospital administrator when people of a discriminated race have bad outcomes at their hospital, when the outcome is the systemic rate of all the other hospitals. The hospital outcome isn’t racist, because the systemic issues that affect the outcomes of the hospital patients have nothing to do with the decisions of the hospital.
- lisasays 3y agoNot necessarily -- recall that lead service lines were extremely widely used in the U.S. in all neighborhoods, black and white. So in fact it's more likely that he pipes being first put into the ground without any racist intent at all. It's the fact of this problem not being remediated in certain neighborhoods that cause people to ask, very legitimately -- how this came to pass.