(3) Worth noting: I also condemn the Capitol riot, which I would not describe as - say- "a peaceful walk to acquire podiums."
I tend overall to oppose crime, and in particular take a #Nika attitude toward members of mobs, who should be promptly killed or jailed by the state.
(4) Also worth noting - and this isn't Kendi's mistake with the #s: I don't see how the quant claim in OP can be true. Per a basic search, there were at least 573 declared riots during the BLM era...some lasting for days.
This gets into all the Methods chatter in the thread, eh?
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Something debaters need to understand is that "woke" post-modernists are focused on the purely semantic/verbal to a degree no one else is. Some believe words truly construct reality.
Many of their odder arguments aren't "nonsense" so much as true in only one semantic sense.
(2) For example, the claim "POC can't be racist" doesn't mean Blacks can't be extreme racial bigots, or actual hate criminals (we're actually a bit over-represented in that sector).
It doesn't even mean we can't be bigots who use our power positions to discriminate racially.
(3) What it means, per 20+ chats, is s/t insanely specific: we can't be bigots, whose power positions come FROM membership in a dominant race, who then use those positions to discriminate.
Even that's debatable ("consider Detroit government..."), but there's a simpler response.
(51) I'll refresh my 'articles' thread, up-top, with many more pieces.
Here, in an academic article, Bob Maranto, Pat Wolf, and myself look at how police departments can ACTUALLY REDUCE cop shootings - and why most of the #BLM lit doesn't touch on this...scholarworks.uark.edu/edrepub/136/
(52) In this piece, for @Newsweek, I point out we are not going to take ~450M legal weapons away from taxpayers, and suggest specific solutions to mass shootings...like watching those who say they might commit one, and not making those who do famous..newsweek.com/were-not-outli…
(53) In another @Newsweek article, I point out the Taboo Obvious: there is no One Team of bespoke-suit wearing whites oppressing everyone else, and causes like gay rights and Palestinian lib have literally nothing to do with one another...newsweek.com/nothing-unites…
There is no rational explanation, under the "systemic racism" logical/logistical framework, for why Asians out-perform - not Blacks - but whites.
East Indians make 2-3x what WHITE people do. No one even disputes that. How is this just ignored?
(2) What I am saying here is extraordinarily simple.
If the claim is that ~all stat-sig performance gaps between groups are the result of "racism" or "racist policy" (Delgado 2001; D'Angelo 2018; Kendi 2018), massive minority groups out-performing the majority disprove this.
(3) If we want to move beyond silly theory to reality, and just say current racism - along with past racism, CULTURE, systemic variables like state welfare policy, luck...etc - determines how people/groups do, there isn't much to debate here.
But, since it already exists, this is important. "Everytown" numbers are complete hack-work, including basically any discharge of a firearm on or near a campus...by anyone...with any result.
There have been ~15 mass school shootings all time.
(2) One thing I'd like to see done about "mass shootings and the resultant panic" is honest coverage.
Media -especially conservative media!- should not name shooters and give them negative respect, should point out that these horrible incidents kill 20-40 people annually, etc.
(3) The template^ exists: it's how cases involving far-left, etc NON-narrative fitting madmen are often handled.
After the Waukesha killer ran over 62 people, he was described by his rap name, the story vanished in 3 days, and we weren't warned about Black extremists or cars.
This is my favorite example of the effects of ideological monoculture.
For literally almost a century, the questions used to measure authoritarianism and extremism - in well-done, honestly run studies - were focused exclusively on the right ("Should society regulate JEWS?!!")
(2) So, academics kept finding that ~all authoritarians were on the right.
Finally, 2-3 years ago, a scholar at Emory (?) re-jiggered the usual questions to ask about RIGHT-wing boogey-men (say "anti-maskers"). He found the obvious: many or most authoritarians are leftists.
(3) I keep finding the same sort of thing. In my audit studies paper, I noted that there has apparently never been a racism-testing "audit" study of minority businesses or gov't jobs...and apparently just 1 done in academia.
Wot does bias look like in these sectors? Who knows?!