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Correctly identifying the systemic causes of poor health outcomes among certain populations isn’t politics.

• ethbr1 2y ago
  Parent could have also linked to these statistics on COVID cases and deaths, by ethnicity, if they wanted science: https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?url=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-race-ethnicity.html https://archive.cdc.gov/#/details?url=https://www.cdc.gov/co...
• wizzwizz4 2y ago
  Yes, it is. It's also science, and also a good thing, but that doesn't stop it from being politics. > Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of status or resources. ­— Wikipedia
  • exe34 2y ago
    by that logic absolutely everything about government is politics, and therefore the word is not very useful. why do you keep using it? is it possible you're trying to lean on some implications of using the word but you haven't been brave enough to state them outright?
    • wizzwizz4 2y ago
      Most likely that implication was intended. But, because so many things that matter (civil rights, housing policy, free software, criminal sentencing guidelines) are political, I think it's important to push back explicitly against that connotation when it comes up.