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Originally Posted by Dillian
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The only reason you hear about blacks being shot so much is because that is what the media is covering. I bet day to day more white people get shot then blacks. The media is choosing its flavor to report. Its what people are looking for.
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Blacks are actually killed by police at a rate
lower than that of Whites when you adjust for the dramatically higher rate at which blacks commit crimes. I'll say that again:
although a larger percentage of the black population dies to police than the White population, that percentage doesn't scale to meet the increased contributions of blacks to crime in the United States!
The rate at which blacks die to police doesn't even scale to match the increased criminality of American blacks, let alone exceed it!
Obviously, dying to police is partly a function of how often you earn an encounter with the police, so an adjustment for the rate at which a given population encounters police is one that must be made before any real assessment of the 'systemic racism' in our justice system can be made.
But the ultimate conclusion to be made from the stats is that, individual-per-individual, White criminals are more likely to die to police than black ones. If that's the case, how much of a scarlet letter can black skin really be?
This is the same stupidity we see with the wage gap myth and 'unequal representation' at the Oscars. Outcomes for all races and genders must line up statistically or systemic bigotry is automatically to blame, even if those outcomes are actually being altered by the personal decisions made by the populations in question (eg. become a stay at home wife of your own free choice and you contribute to the "wage gap"; 50% of black population is an unemployed criminal which must somehow be the fault of police even if they are demonstrably resorting to lethal force with blacks less often than with their White criminal counterparts)
Unequal outcomes != systemic oppression. Rise above your birth circumstances or perish in your own filth. Isn't that the American way?