SentinelSlain
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- Nov 21, 2007
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zabu of nΩd;10981710 said:The whole point of the study's use of fictitious resumes is to control for factors such as education. Again, the abstract says that higher quality resumes elicit 30% more callbacks with white sounding names - evidence of racial bias doesn't get much clearer than that.
The purpose of the rape website is irrelevant to the point I'm making. The data on the site originates from the FBI and Justice Department. I don't need to post direct links to the FBI and Justice Department websites to use the same data in my argument.
If you look at the charts on the demographics of Congress in the second article, you'll see that the Democratic party, while still skewed toward white men, is much more diverse. I'm not constructing a "narrative" by highlighting the demographics of the Republican members - it's well known that people who vote Republican tend to (a) be older, whiter, and more male, and (b) consider race and gender equality a relatively low national priority.
That's the way the "system" works, and despite what you've assumed about me, I do not at all believe the system is "fucked". I'm well aware that conservative ideology provides a valuable counterweight to liberal ideology. For example, I don't trust the average liberal to have reasonable opinions about the use of military force or economic stimulus measures.
That does not excuse the injustices against minority groups that conservatives overlook, though. Because conservatism is by definition about maintaining the status quo, it also maintains traditional attitudes about the inferiority of women and "colored" people. This was true during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, when conservatives opposed the Voting Rights Act, and it's true today... which brings us to the point of liberalism: to advocate for change. Liberalism deserves most of the credit for recognizing and addressing injustices against minority groups in recent history, and anyone who makes an honest effort to understand the experience of minority groups today will find it overwhelmingly clear that the injustices have not been resolved.
Shouldn't minorities who have only recently migrated to the US be treated with colour blind equality rather than privileges intended to right historical grievances against the pre existing US minorities?
Do white people have a right to maintain their culture? I know that's a vague phrase, but I think it's obvious what I mean. What about white people in Iceland? Places that have hardly colonized Africa (along with all of Eastern Europe, but Jews may hold grievances against them).
Given that migration generally occurs in a kind of colonizing trickle pattern rather than a direct transferal of community, is it not obvious that focusing on it as a means of helping the poorer parts of the world is a bit of a flawed concept. There are far more Hindus and Muslims than there are people in Europe, so how can immigration be an answer to flawed policy in the third world?