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Corrik7 posted...

red sox 777 posted...

But the result of this is if you are a black man, you are always going to be suspect #1. Your whole life everytime you are near an incident you are going to be the top suspect. Are you okay with society treating an innocent person this way?

I feel if that's how it's going to be he should at least be entitled to compensation, since police are employed by the state after all.

If the data in that area supports that, I see nothing wrong with looking in that direction first. You aren't arresting the person or treating them as they are guilty by looking there first. If they are, they are going too far. It has to be applicable to data that supports it in the area, be used in a not malicious way, and not overextend it's usage

Stereotypes don't have to be inherently bad.

Saying I will never call the cops because they are the real evil fucking murders. Fuck the police. Fucking pigs.

That's terrible. It's hard to take someone stereotyping police that way seriously when they make arguments against stereotyping.

That was my point I made there. But that forum is a cesspool where you are told how to think, if you question the mods you are banned, and it's a fight to be as far left as possible. They have banned transgender members for transphobia because their beliefs regarding themselves didn't align with the approved thought. That's just crazy. There was a huge ass thread calling etika every insult in the book and claiming he was a racist against black people(including a moderator). The members called it out and after the fact they scrubbed it from their forum.

Being banned from there isn't some proof of anything lol. They ban a ton of people lol. The entire Conservative OffTopic group is a graveyard of bans. None left lol. If you are a moderate democrat you are considered part of the problem too there. That forum is so far left it is wild.

That sounds like a place not worth posting at.

But I feel like if we are going to support a colorblind society, we need to really do that. We are never going to reach colorblindness if we continue to perpetuate policies that discriminate based on race. That includes those that are statistically warranted at this time in the sense you're saying- if I want to give a boost of 100 SAT points to all black applicants for instance because they probably didn't have a family that motivated them to prepare extensively for the test and shelled out for the resources to do so - that would probably make my admissions results better in the short run. Because the average black applicant with SAT score X is going to be smarter than the average applicant with score X across all races.

But if this kind of shortcut is used....are we ever going to make progress towards colorblindness? It may be more like the dictatorship of the proletariat in the USSR which was started in the 1920s as a stepping stone to true Communism and was still being practiced in 1991. They made no progress whatsoever toward true Communism in 7 decades and by the end no one in Russia expected it to ever happen.
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