@whstancil The weight of slavery, Jim Crow, and redlining suddenly got vastly worse on African Americans the week that George Floyd died, causing despairing blacks to experience a historic increase in weekly deaths by car crash and homicide as the cops depoliced:
takimag.com/article/unnece…
@whstancil Or, @whstancil, are you arguing that am I saying that African-Americans experienced genetic mutations on May 25, 2020 that within days made them on average dramatically shootier and worse drivers?
My recollection instead is that The Establishment encouraged a "racial reckoning."
@whstancil Black Lives Matter, which had gotten many incremental black lives murdered and splattered on the pavement in the Ferguson Effect of 2015-16, was dusted off and sacralized. Not surprisingly, BLM 2, the Floyd Effect, was even more lethal upon black lives:
takimag.com/article/unnece…
@whstancil Race, which correlates strongly with who your ancestors are, thus tends to correlate with both your Nature (your genes) and your Nurture (your upbringing, your culture, etc.). Disentangling the roles of Nature and Nurture in explaining social facts is exceptionally challenging.
@whstancil In contrast to my even-handed intellectual curiosity about how the world works, your reaction to any discussion of Nature and Nurture is to go berserk over anybody mentioning the possibility that Nature might matter and call to "just get rid of them and apologize later."
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