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You passed without comment over an instance of the police indulging in the obnoxious woke racist practice of capitalising "black" while not capitalising "white". WHY?!?

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Good point!

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Police aren’t racist because black community commits disproportionate number of crimes due to family and community dysfunction. Blaming police is absurd and a blood libel that gets cops killed.

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Heather Mac Donald, in her book The Diversity Delusion (2020), was bravely blunt when speaking about "unconscious bias" and racial disparities in the US:

“A thought experiment is in order: If American blacks acted en masse like Asian Americans for ten years in all things relevant to economic success—if they had similar rates of school attendance, paying attention in class, doing homework and studying for exams, staying away from crime, persisting in a job, and avoiding out-of-wedlock childbearing—and we still saw racial differences in income, professional status, and incarceration rates, then it would be well justified to seek an explanation in unconscious prejudice. But as long as the behavioral disparities remain so great, the minute distinctions of the IAT [Implicit Association Test] are a sideshow.” (p. 107)

Parts of Mac Donald's book can be read with the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon.ca.

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