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Do you feel the same way about US crime statistics and race?
Even in data-driven topics it can still be absolute racism.
I think you missed the clarifier (“not necessarily”) in the quote you pulled. I also think you’re misconstruing data and conclusions. Using your example, there is certainly a racial bias in crime statistics. One claim from that data is that certain races tend to commit more crime. A different claim is that the practice of applying the law is racist. I feel like the former claim wouldn’t be reproducible; the latter most likely is
Right but this is one of many reasons we have political agitators using something like this. It's a segue that primes people's way of thinking for other things.
This same agitation occurs in certain other topics. For example Staffordshire Terriers or "pitbulls". The right agitates that issue like fuck because establishing the mindset "some breeds of dogs are simply predisposed to being vicious and violent" is a means of establishing a reactionary mindset in people that can be reapplied to other topics. Such as "some breeds of humans are simply predisposed to being vicious and violent".
It's a reoccurring form of agitation that occurs that is used as a segue or primer outside of the primary race-theory context that sets people up for accepting race-theory later on.
To a lesser extent it's also the same way evil races in fantasy fiction are used and why the right adores those settings. Evil races are convenient for colonialism and genocide... And believing that some races are evil in stories sets people up for believing it outside of stories too.
All of these things are connected by the same thread.
This is why I don't like engineers.
I think you missed the clarifier (“not necessarily”) in the quote you pulled. I also think you’re misconstruing data and conclusions. Using your example, there is certainly a racial bias in crime statistics. One claim from that data is that certain races tend to commit more crime. A different claim is that the practice of applying the law is racist. I feel like the former claim wouldn’t be reproducible; the latter most likely is