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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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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agree, and i'm glad you have the platform to say this unfortunately a good narrative trumps all (pun intended) all woes are economic and class based but people are stirred to action by a moral narrative either an injustice to be corrected or an oppression to be avenged
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You're going to get a lot of hate for this.
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Source: https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ Also: About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police ... That makes them 2.5 times more likely than white men and boys to die https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-08-15/police-shootings-are-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-black-men …pic.twitter.com/3eralXGyVv
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True! I believe that the data I'm looking at is adjusted for criminality. Black people are more likely to be criminals (likely as a side effect of the poverty which is a result of the systemic racism I mentioned in the thread). Check out the studies I linked.
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"We assume that the reason an officer shoots a suspect... " Faulty assumption. SSC ignores the fact that blacks are 2.5x as likely to be shot based on pop. by claiming that cops "should shoot" based on n=12 stats for cops being shot at. But n=12 << n=41 of cop shootings
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In other words, it's impossible that most of the black people shot in NYC were shooting at officers. So you can't explain away their disproportionate share of shootings that way. It's not like cops are trained to shoot based on statistics of races.
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Something to note: if you're controlling for crime, that only measures police killing racism relative to racism of the rest of the system
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Also, the main issues seem to be the level of general harassment+violence black people experience from police when not commiting any crime, and the excessive force used dealing with nonviolent crimes.
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There are literally corrections / responses on the top of that page disputing the claim by Johnson et. Al
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