Recent content by Shobha

Exactly. They are suspected more, accused more, convicted more ... so in this case the data is biased in itself. So anyone who cites this flawed statistics is not really proving a point, because the data itself is biased.

Yes, that WAS my point ! When people cite crime rates based on race, they make it racist. When it is actually socioeconomic factors. Blacks are not more violent and crime prone. Poorer people are. Blacks happen to be poorer than the other races. And the reason there is more crime in the lower...

Thanks for the (unnecessary) pronunciation lesson. I am fully aware of the tons of Research behind subconscious bias. I teach it. So again, not sure what the point is :confused:

True. Also, many people do not realise that bias is subconscious. And that all races have it. Studies show that even blacks subconsciously think that they are predisposed to crime and violence etc etc. Because that's what has been implied (explicitly and implicitly) for centuries, and millennia...

Not sure their regret would be for Floyd. It would be more like self pity because they lost their jobs and were tried/prosecuted for murder. These people typically use the argument of "It happens", or that "There was no other way". A "good" shooting, they call it. As if ANY shooting could be...

When you see a poor defenseless man die a horrible death, because of the subconscious bias, racism and bigotry of police officers, you feel grief, even though you don't know the victim, or the offender. Human beings have empathy (or are supposed to, anyway!) We can feel immense grief, sadness...

Exactly !! Socioeconomic status is the variable, not race !

Very well said !

Actually I think they realise this very well. And they are terrified of it ! Hence the distraction and what-about-ery.

A lot of it is just in-group conformance. The group you identify with, and feel that you belong to etc, is the group whose ideas and philosophy you want to share. And this is not some average or moderate position. It has to be an extreme position, in order to differentiate you from the other...

And I was talking about the murder of George Floyd. Which happened BEFORE the protests. As a matter of fact, it was the reason FOR the protests ;)

George Floyd's murder and the protests that followed it are the "same" incident ?!

Thats classic what-about-ery. Distracting with other incidents.

Not just the smirk, the whole casual attitude he had when there was a man struggling below him ... there was no stress, nothing. It was cold blooded.

So if someone has pre-existing health conditions, its all right to manhandle him, and murder him. But if he does not, then you need to be extra careful. Funny, I would have thought just the opposite would make rational sense !