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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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 also relevant because the different solutions required for police violence primarily motivated by racism vs police violence primarily motivated by other means
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Based on some quick research I did, a black man's about 3x as likely to be killed by police in the US as a white man(not controlling for anything). But any US resident is 4x as likely as a Swede, 7x someone in France, 21x a German, 60x the UK or Poland.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_country …
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My point being: one doesn't even need to argue that the first discrepancy isn't (entirely) due to racism, because the second one is so much bigger.
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