1/ When I was a Christian, we believed that we were persecuted. Any time there was a high profile killing of a Christian, we heard about it. Any bad thing that happened to Christians was fed through a narrative that the world was out to get us because they hated us.
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8/ But moreso, I'm concerned that a more important discussion around police brutality and training is being coopted by a statistically unsupported narrative around racism. I don't mean that racism isn't real or that its lasting effects aren't part of the background here
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9/but the huge, uncritical acceptance of unjustified racial bias in the use of police force is absolutely eerie to me. I feel like I'm in crazytown that nobody's having serious discussions about the data here. Shouldn't the data be extremely important to our attitudes about this?
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https://www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877?ijkey=ec58d89f56588f14b3926acbf67611009f21039b&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha … "...we did not find anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity." https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/25/race-and-justice-much-more-than-you-wanted-to-know/ … "There seems to be little or no racial bias in arrests for serious violent crime, police shootings in most jurisdictions, prosecutions, or convictions."
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To be completely fair, the stuff here is still nuanced! There's racial bias found some places, in some levels, depending on where you look. But even including this, it's very far from the widespread police racism that you'd think exists from looking on social media.
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This is a great statement: nowadays most people wouldn't agree with it, assuming that lived experience gives actually a unique understanding of certain factors but it's clear it can also give unique biases. Particularly when you consider people reason as if the insights that
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lived experience gives are not only a strong way to know certain phenomena but THE ONLY ONE, making it impossible for people from outside a group to really understand or know what one might be going through when you're in it.
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