Since ppl like to use percentages to "prove" blacks are discriminated against more than others in the criminal justice system(hint:they aren't), let's use them to see how many whites are truly in power.
Question: How many whites are truly in power giving them priviledge?
How many in America? How many in each European country? Russia? Asia? Latin or South America? The Middle East? Israel? Every country individually and break it all down on every level possible.
Then use them to prove each White person in the world has priviledge over EVERY OTHER non-white on the planet?
YOU FIGURE IT OUT AND SHOW US! If you can't or won't, you haven't proven your case, nor even tried. If you cannot your opinion is based on emotion, not science. If you WILL NOT, you're not interested in the truth.
Emotions, examples and parables not paired with the facts, all the facts are moot.
If one doesn't want to be discriminated against because if the color of their skin, they shouldn't only advocate for a specific color.
As for race being a social construct, I'll give you this, but again, you are just scratching the surface.
'Race' is a word with a definition, like all words, which in themselves are social contructs. While it's hard to pinpoint what exactly constitutes a race scientifically, the population as a whole does define it well enough...
Definitions change, are deleted or added with popularity of use over time. Race is a common term and the basic definition is accepted by MOST and is used by most to mean exactly what is implied. Partial truths and trying to skirt and issue through strawman arguments outs those who are emotional, rather than rational.
BLM is a racist organization, period!
Your response doesn't convince me at all @notconvinced ;-)
This must be the dumbest thing I've read in a good while now. Read my response to @stayoutoftherz; there's no dispute about the existence of race as a cultural phenomenon. It's the racists who try to make it a biological or inherited phenomenon when they claim, often with the use of "big words", that blacks are inherently more violent that whites, or that their IQ is inherently lower. This, and the obvious systemic discrimination against them, is what BLM fights against. If you believe that makes them racist, I have no words left for you because you evidently drank the cool-aid that mistakenly makes you believe that you're "red-pilled".
Lol, since you decided to choose only one point out of many and replied emotionally, rather than logically, I see it is you that drank the kool-aid(correct spelling).
As for your rebuttal, I too am not convinced of your stance. We are all victims of life as well as the system and no one deserves special help.
There is not a bias! You've already seen the numbers that matter, but choose to ignore them. If a neighborhood is full of crime, especially violent crimes the police will be there more, period. This is the case?
How do I know? I grew up in the hood,lived in suburbia and out in the sticks, was taken from my home by the state at 12yrs old and have a prison number. I've lived it, but I'll bet you haven't...
Next time, address 'race' as it is used, rather than cherry-picking to conform to your bias.
Good day😀
By no means do I ignore statistics, but I also don't ignore the circumstances under which these statistics are measured. If a neighborhood is full of crime, the first question that comes to mind is "why?" Read my response to @akumagai, maybe that'll help. Fact is that, certainly in urban settings, poor neighborhoods have more crime. Fact is that of those neighborhoods many inhabitants are black. There's no question, no mystery here; there is a bias.
Yet another logical fallacy; your personal experience is in no way a valid argument, as it's anecdotal "evidence", which is to say no evidence at all. All the real evidence, statistics and countless studies into the subject matter, points to the validity of the arguments I've already given.
That's exactly what you're doing here. I on the other hand choose to use "race", especially in a post about "race", in the correct way.
If you haven't lived it, you cannot validate which numbers or the explanations for those numbers correlate to your biases and which ones are truly relevent.
Have a great day😀
Blah blah... Again; that's not an argument, not a valid one at least. And who says I haven't lived it? Not that it would matter either way, but you seem to yet again jump to conclusions you can't substantiate.
Lol, I offered a probability, which you pretty much confirmed.😀