Five days left in my one-week challenge to find someone who can explain systemic racism with a current example.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
Hi Scott, it’s prosecutorial discretion: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d75a/2e5bf83dd687d2b9c6aa12e22170a4c76809.pdf … As the name implies, the methods of handling criminal cases for different races by US prosecutors is brimming with implicitly racist policies. The study is a lot to digest but PD finds expression in:
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Replying to @Watch_Crypto @ScottAdamsSays
- Decision to charge or release - Deciding what crime to charge - Decision about how and how much to set bail - Disclosure of exculpatory evidence - Plea bargain offers - Jury selection - Language used in closing arguments and elsewhere in trial
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Replying to @Watch_Crypto @ScottAdamsSays
Strongly encourage those interested to read the study but in all of those areas, POC are routinely, systemically treated worse than white defendants resulting in all kinds of broader negative outcomes for POC individuals and communities.
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Replying to @Watch_Crypto @ScottAdamsSays
Show statistics to support this then.
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Replying to @HiawathaCat @ScottAdamsSays
Read the linked study, it is overflowing with them.
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Replying to @Watch_Crypto
Statistics are not evidence because "ordinary" racism can get you to the same place. What is the law or "system" to which you refer? One example, please.
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Replying to @ScottAdamsSays
You’re now asking for examples of explicit laws that codify racism in the system, which have been eliminated from US law. That is different than asking for examples of how racism is expressed systemically, which it is in the ostensibly equal for equal crimes justice system.
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Replying to @Watch_Crypto @ScottAdamsSays
The system is question is prosecutorial discretion allowing implicit racial biases to impact the subjective decisions of prosecutors, judges, and others within the US justice system. The observable result is unequal outcomes for white/black defendants of exactly equivalent crimes
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"Prosecutorial discretion" is the very definition of individual racism, not systemic. You can't add three ordinary racists together and call it a system just because that's how stats are collected.
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