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darkjedilink posted...

The Admiral posted...

Balrog0 posted...

You're now asking for an incredibly high bar with respect to how we think about public policies -- which I'm okay with. But do you have this standard for every public policy? When people ask for a minimum wage increase, do you carefully study the literature to see what the impact would be? When you see something that might show it's bad, do you carefully consider the limitations of the study?

I'm asking for a high bar before accepting claims of institutional racism. And so should everyone. Blaming a disparity on racism when it's not the true cause is not simply useless, it's counter-productive.

Also, there is nothing wrong with expecting a high bar and detailed analysis for public policies. I'm not expecting you or me to do that, but there are thousands of well-educated 20-somethings on the government payroll who should be doing these kinds of analyses before we make sweeping policy changes that could have unforeseen consequences. In fact, a lack of this kind of pre-analysis has been a major contributor to racial disparities in policy outcomes in some cases (stop-and-frisk probably being the most heated example).

A more national example would be the Great Recession - caused ultimately by policy enacted under Clinton to increase minority home ownership, because racizms.

See, this. is what I'm talking about. This position is not necessarily ridiculous, but it had less evidence for it then the idea that our housing or criminal Justice systems are discriminatory. You can't talk out of both sides of your mouth.

Sonicfan, sorry man, I'll respond when I'm not on mobile
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