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Aaantlion 09/14/19 11:10:05 PM #19:	The perception is far more significant than the reality and is largely driven by a mix of self-promoting provocateurs and sensationalism. If a white man and a black man were both given the same kind of slap on the wrist for the same crime by a judge in the same week, you'd be far more likely to hear outrage over the white man's meager punishment and discussions how black men are treated worse (excluding socially conservative outlets where the reverse might be true, unless the white man is a liberal) EvilMegas posted... Hoo boy. You guys lol What do you mean by "boy"? And what do you mean "you guys"? We gonna have a problem here?! Unit7 posted... If if you are white youll always be assumed to be legal, even if you are speaking Spanish. ....but Spanish-speaking blacks are assumed to be legal, so are Spanish-speaking Asians and Spanish-speaking Native Americans. Hell, so are Spanish-speaking Middle-Easterners. That's not a white issue, that's a demographic issue that comes from the fact that the bulk of visible illegal immigration comes from Central and South America. Unit7 posted... he literal difference is one is a literal citizen and one is some bloke from Ireland. Oh and one is white and the other isnt. Who is more likely to be harassed for speaking Spanish? Is it the White Dude from Ireland or is it the Puerto Rican? Who is is more likely to have ICE called on them? Probably not the Irish Lad. Both of them are walking down the street carrying a computer monitor they own. Which one do you think will most likely be accused of stealing if the cop pass by? First, anybody carrying a computer down the street is automatically suspicious because that's a long way to walking around with a computer. Second, you say "not white," but do you honestly believe that an Asian or even a Middle-Easterner might be questioned about that computer? Most cops might be inclined to pay less attention to an Asian man than a white man. And you bring up ICE in this discussion, but ICE isn't receiving that many phone calls about non-Latinos/non-Hispanics because, once again, the US doesn't have as visible a problem with those other groups being in the country illegally. But if we're just talking race, it's worth noting that Asians have a higher average income than whites: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2018/demo/p60-263/figure1.pdf Is that because we're racist against whites? How about racial disparity in our prisons? Non-hispanic whites make up 60.7% of the population and 58.6% of our Federal prison population, which is roughly representative. Meanwhile Asians make up 5.6% of the US's population, but only 1.5% of our prisons, which is a pretty fucking substantial difference as well. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| <cite>Aaantlion posted [p:927450428] in White Priv... [t:78014534]...</cite> <quote>The perception is far more significant than the reality and is largely driven by a mix of self-promoting provocateurs and sensationalism. If a white man and a black man were both given the same kind of slap on the wrist for the same crime by a judge in the same week, you'd be far more likely to hear outrage over the white man's meager punishment and discussions how black men are treated worse (excluding socially conservative outlets where the reverse might be true, unless the white man is a liberal) EvilMegas posted...</cite> <quote>Hoo boy. You guys lol</quote> What do you mean by "boy"? And what do you mean "you guys"? We gonna have a problem here?! Unit7 posted...</cite> <quote>If if you are white youll always be assumed to be legal, even if you are speaking Spanish. </quote> ....but Spanish-speaking blacks are assumed to be legal, so are Spanish-speaking Asians and Spanish-speaking Native Americans. Hell, so are Spanish-speaking Middle-Easterners. That's not a white issue, that's a demographic issue that comes from the fact that the bulk of visible illegal immigration comes from Central and South America. Unit7 posted...</cite> <quote>he literal difference is one is a literal citizen and one is some bloke from Ireland. Oh and one is white and the other isnt. Who is more likely to be harassed for speaking Spanish? Is it the White Dude from Ireland or is it the Puerto Rican? Who is is more likely to have ICE called on them? Probably not the Irish Lad. Both of them are walking down the street carrying a computer monitor they own. Which one do you think will most likely be accused of stealing if the cop pass by?</quote> First, anybody carrying a computer down the street is automatically suspicious because that's a long way to walking around with a computer. Second, you say "not white," but do you honestly believe that an Asian or even a Middle-Easterner might be questioned about that computer? Most cops might be inclined to pay less attention to an Asian man than a white man. And you bring up ICE in this discussion, but ICE isn't receiving that many phone calls about non-Latinos/non-Hispanics because, once again, the US doesn't have as visible a problem with those other groups being in the country illegally. But if we're just talking race, it's worth noting that Asians have a higher average income than whites: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2018/demo/p60-263/figure1.pdf Is that because we're racist against whites? How about racial disparity in our prisons? Non-hispanic whites make up 60.7% of the population and 58.6% of our Federal prison population, which is roughly representative. Meanwhile Asians make up 5.6% of the US's population, but only 1.5% of our prisons, which is a pretty fucking substantial difference as well. https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_race.jsp --- (\/)(\/)\|-\|</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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