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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

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  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  I will give you an example of Andreas Lubitz a german pilot who purpose crashed the plane Germanwings Flight 9525. He messed up so bad that some airlines put in place new regulatory system and psychology assessment for pilots.

  One pilot messed up, they recognized a problem and they put in place procedure to improve the system.

  You still don't seem to understand what this topic is even about.

  For this to make any sense and have any bearing on this topic, the airline would need to have a systemic problem with hiring psycho pilots who flew planes into mountains.

  They don't. They simply took an extreme one-off event and added something to protect against it in future. This is how airline safety works over time to become safer. Same with motor vehicles. Learn as you go and build up rules for safety.

  Now something airline related that does have a bearing on the topic is the US airline that declared they were going to make sure they had an equal number of black pilots.

  What can that mean other than that they will recruit based on skin color? That one day, instead of the best pilot being given the job, a lesser-skilled black pilot will instead be given the job.

  That's an example of systemic racism and bat shit crazy, because everyone in their right mind doesn't give a shit about the color of their pilot but should care about them being one of the best or not.

  This is where "systemic racism" claims end up - with real systemic racism!

  But then just like individual racism, there simply isn't enough of the real stuff to fill the news so much of it has to be invented and faked and the democrats rely on racism so much they can't risk it ever ending so have to keep it burning. They have always been good at burning things when it comes to black people.
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  as obvious as 2+2=4

  erm, isn't "2+2=4" now evidence of "systemic racism"?

  I kid you not, if you haven't seen it, that is an actual claim. Math is racist.
  
  
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  Wait, when did emojis break? That ruined my joke ...

  "sad face", because I don't know how to do one with a picture now
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  Simon belly laugh.

  :okhand:

  Argh, I mean :thumbsup: !!!

  (Phew, nearly became systemically racist then ...)
  
  
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  🤙🤙

  I hope that isn't a racist hand signal, I've heard about those ...
  
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  There is something called legacy admission which benefits students whose parent went to the same university. It also benefits students whose parents have donated a nice chunk of change $$$$ to the university.

  There are those who get admission because they are great at Football but don't have necessarily the best academic grades

  The US admissions system is pure bat-shit crazy and corrupt as hell. It's a ponzi scheme.

  And yes, it's systemically racist even if it might also be money-grabbing as well. How does "oh, they are corrupt in other ways too!" alter the fact that they judge people based on their race?
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  That is a systemic problem when the police ...

  If you take this as evidence of a "systemic problem" then each crime committed by individuals of any race is equally evidence of a "systemic problem", isn't it?

  The fact is that individual acts do not act as evidence that any systemic problem exists, only that a particular person committed a crime.

  Apply the same reasoning to other things: if I have a Toyota and it breaks down, does it mean that Toyotas are systemically problematic? Of course not - to determine that would need to look at the entirety of the cases, the system as a whole.

  The clue is in the name - systemic, applying to the system.
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  What Will Happen If You Do NOT Get The Covid Vaccinations?

  by minimus in

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  we are encouraged to all, if possible, get the vaccinations.

  if you don’t, we are told that we definitely could get the virus.

  fair enough.. but what happens if you decide you aren’t going to get the shots?

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  Simon

  But what happens if you decide you aren’t going to get the shots?

  Haven't you watched John Carpenter's "They Live!" movie?!

  If you don't get the vaccine, you'll be able to see the alien overlords!

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inZUDMGJsKo
  
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  Racism is nowhere as prevalent as it once was say 50 years ago, not saying it doesn't exist now but in evidential fact.

  I agree. Years ago there was both racism (individuals with prejudice) and systemic racism - actual laws on the statutes that mandated different treatment based on race. Each probably perpetuated the other to some extent.

  That is no longer the case. There are undoubtedly racists in the world (of all colors, we should note) but systemic racism as it's usually claimed doesn't appear to be a thing, even when justice departments have done lengthy investigations to find it.

  Again, the trick you'll see is people pointing to individual act of racism and claiming it as evidence of systemic racism, or comparing things to the general population which is statistically incorrect and invalid.

  The reason you know they do it intentionally to misrepresent things is that the stats are clear and easy to check. The stats show more black people commit crimes and the prison population largely reflects the population of those committing crimes.

  To compare the general population would mean including more in the complete pipeline of "the system", because prison / justice is just the end part of it.

  So why then don't they include the school system, when it comes to deciding if things are "systemically racist"? There seems to be way more evidence that schools are systemically racist if you compare "what goes in / what comes out" against the general population.

  What could it possibly be? Surely not that teachers unions donate massive amounts to the democratic party? (98% of their political donations in 2020)
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  Systemic Racism: What’s Your View? Is it As Pervasive As Some Suggest?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the president of the united states says we have to do something about this.

  many politicians and people agree that we are all affected by the scourge of systemic racism.

  what’s your view of this?

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  Simon

  Case in point - prison population. If 10% of the population is a specific ethnicity that nation's prison population must be 10%. If it is more or less the criminal justice system is prejudicial.

  It should only be that 10% if everyone commits crime at the same rate. The trick that politicians especially do is have people focus on the wrong metric, because most people don't understand stats.

  The prison population should reflect the population of those committing crimes, which is likely different to the general population.

  There are very few systems where you would expect the makeup to exactly match that of the general population, unless it was a true random selection. There is always some form of self-selection going on as an input to most systems.