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Originally Posted by fash
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Let's also imagine a certain demographic is 5x more likely to commit violent crimes. Eventually, after experiencing this firsthand and seeing evidence of this in your life, your body/brain has learned "this demographic = a violent crime is more likely to occur".
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Of course, now you've conditioned the pavlovian dog to behave in a manner that is more likely to get the dog harmed or killed when released into the real world.
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Like I said before, you can say "this stuff is hard to fix I give up", or you can say "it's hard to fix but it's worth trying even so."
Also I think you're vastly over-imagining "more likely to get the dog harmed or killed". The violent crime rate is like 386 in 100,000 (ie. less than one in a thousand), and your own risk is likely far lower because those victims are disproportionately poor/minority, and include rape victims which are disproportionately female. Since I don't know your exact gender/race/social class I'll do rough math and quarter (and round) that to one in ten thousand.
Now, how often would having a racist expectation of people help you avoid being assaulted/murdered? Only some subset of the times the attacker is a stranger right? But ... "among homicides reported to the FBI for which the victim-offender relationship was known ... 73% and 79% were committed by offenders known to the victims", So you're looking at only
some of 1/4 in 10,000.
TLDR; Even if some minorities have been shown to have a greater rate of violence (a natural consequence of their disproportionate historical poor treatment), there still is no meaningful difference to your safety from not being a racist.