Three things I learned from the #BLM protests:
- No one can point to an example of systemic racism (except against whites and asian-Americans)
- Resisting arrest is the only thing that gets you killed by cops
- Reparations would be negative if you calculated them correctly
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Sure: here’s three: redlining, convict leasing, and Jim Crow laws.
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So, none then.
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Consider the differences in sentencing for the same crimes: “Black male offenders continued to receive longer sentences than similarly situated White male offenders.”https://www.ussc.gov/research/research-reports/demographic-differences-sentencing …
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That’s called “racism.” What insight did we gain by calling it “systemic” versus, say, widespread or universal?
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