Red Mosquito

Do you agree or disagree:

Generations of slavery and discrimination have created conditions that make it difficult for blacks to work their way out of the lower class.

Over the past few years, blacks have gotten less than they deserve.

It's really a matter of some people not trying hard enough; if blacks would only try harder they could be just as well off as whites.

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How often would you say that you have tender, concerned feelings for people from another
racial or ethnic group who are less fortunate than you?
__ Extremely often [1]
__ Very often [2]
__ Somewhat often [3]
__ Not too often [4] __ Not often at all [5]

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Do you favor, oppose, or neither favor nor oppose allowing unauthorized immigrants currently living in the United States to remain in the country and eventually qualify for citizenship?
__ Favor a great deal [1]
__ Favor moderately [2]
__ Favor a little [3]
__ Neither favor nor oppose [4]
__ Oppose a little [5]
__ Oppose moderately [6]
__ Oppose a great deal [7]

BurtReynolds wrote: Jesus do they all have podcasts now?

Rob wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote: Jesus do they all have podcasts now?

You were a little too ahead of your time.

Spoiler: show

McParadigm wrote:Hi, Burt, it sounds like maybe you don’t know how to interpret graphed data.

Mickey wrote:

McParadigm wrote:Hi, Burt, it sounds like maybe you don’t know how to interpret graphed data.

Shocked. Shocked, I say!

Heather Heying said, not wrote:As Orwell illustrated in 1984, the power in compelling speech is that, in time, thought is compelled as well. Those who want to compel what you think, may well start by compelling what you say. This, in a nutshell, is the problem with compelled speech. If we are all required to shout and proclaim "hashtag black lives matter" at all times, meaning that we are constantly focused on race as THE explanatory factor in society, and similarly if we are told constantly that all divergent outcomes between men and women, in which women come out behind is due to sexism, we have arrived at compelled thought. Humans, I believe, have inherently scientific minds. Which means that we can propose multiple explanations for an observed phenomenon and try to distinguish between those explanations. All children do this. Many children have this intuitive scientific tinkering drove out of them in school and by authority figures of all kinds. Looking for what is actually going on takes time, it's messy, and it will offend many of those who have arrived at the conclusion that they, themselves like. They will try to stop the investigation. They may even try to tell you that it is racist to investigate. Compelled speech restricts scientific tendencies and so leads to compelled thought. If The Overton Window has shrunk so far that an observation of a pattern has only one allowable explanation then we have neither freedom of speech nor thought and we have abandoned science... We also have little chance of actually fixing the problem, unless the one officially sanctioned explanation happens to be fully explanatory for all observed patterns, in all cases. I can guarantee that racism is not the only explanation for racial disparities and health outcomes. I can also guarantee that racism is insufficiently precise to be actionable, and this in part is the goal of the activists.

James Lindsay wrote:Today's activism has created a Racism of the Gaps. Racism fills in as the go-to explanation when any other explanation isn't immediately obvious, and sometimes even when it is.

Racism of the Gaps is an allusion to the God of the Gaps argument where many people will say the explanation for some unknown phenomenon, "How did life start?" "Must be God." It's a bad argument, a filler. "Why is there disparity?" "Must be systemic racism. What else could it be?" So systemic racism is usually a way to say that complicating, unknown or inconvenient and suppressed reasons for differences in outcome must be racism in the vaguest sense. We see a difference, we don't need to find out real reasons, it must be racism. It's fraudulent and culty.

tree_ wrote:Are the policies falling more heavily on black communities because they're black or because they're poor?

tree_ wrote:

James Lindsay wrote:Today's activism has created a Racism of the Gaps. Racism fills in as the go-to explanation when any other explanation isn't immediately obvious, and sometimes even when it is.

Racism of the Gaps is an allusion to the God of the Gaps argument where many people will say the explanation for some unknown phenomenon, "How did life start?" "Must be God." It's a bad argument, a filler. "Why is there disparity?" "Must be systemic racism. What else could it be?" So systemic racism is usually a way to say that complicating, unknown or inconvenient and suppressed reasons for differences in outcome must be racism in the vaguest sense. We see a difference, we don't need to find out real reasons, it must be racism. It's fraudulent and culty.

tree_ wrote:Are the policies falling more heavily on black communities because they're black or because they're poor?

philpritchard wrote:

tree_ wrote:Are the policies falling more heavily on black communities because they're black or because they're poor?

Why do more black communities struggle with poverty?