What was useful for me to understand is that 21st-century racists treat racism like some kind of taint that pollutes everything it touches. Of course, instead of thinking of it as acting via miasma or some other gobbledegook, this reasoning uses egregious abuse of statistics to achieve a pseudo-scientific foundation instead. The general gist is that anything that can be found to have a slight correlation with race must necessarily be racist.

The problem with the idea "you go where the market is" is that it doesn't inject a racist lens onto everything. It proposes a kind of decision-making that isn't fundamentally rooted in a racist worldview, and therefore is impossible for our dear 21st-century racists to grasp.

This is the most exhausting discussion in the world and it keeps. happening.

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Canadian senator Murray Sinclair, who chaired Canada's Truth and Reconcilliation commission put it pretty well:

"If you get rid of all of the racists in all of the positions of government, policing, justice, health — you will still have a problem. Because you will have a system that is functioning based upon policies, priorities and decisions that direct how things are to be done, that come from a time when racism was very blatant."

When people talk (knowledgeably) about systemic racism or systemic sexism, this is what they mean. They aren't automatically accusing people who are part of these systems of being racist, they're calling on people who have agency within that system to learn more, uncover their blind spots, and make changes.

I will concede, however that there are people who equate systemic discrimination with personal bigotry. Some of them just don't get the nuance, some of them are frustrated that people in power are remaing "blind" to these problems for so long, and start to think that maybe there's something else to it.

It’s ridiculous, isn’t it. We’re a mere afterthought, if at all.

Perez’ book is a really good read, but also so extremely frustrating because it kept reminding me how women and our experiences are just not valued, or overlooked, or or or. Infuriating.

And look at what the major shortages were (in the US anyway) during the pandemic. It was all stuff primarily used by women: toilet paper, baby formula, tampons. And it's because men in charge made the decisions about where those resources should be allocated and it wasn't to "women's" products. I STILL cannot find my preferred tampons - can't even order them online, they'll deliver the wrong kind.

Spam site with full screen video ads.

>if you optimize for any of those factors
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>And next you're called out to be racist or sexist

r/woosh

But fried chicken restaurants aren’t a public service. If they’ve determined profitability by location based on prior data, you can’t fault them for their decision. That is, they’re a symptom of a larger problem and can’t be expected to be a vanguard of equality.

Thank you. I came to ask. Us poor ignorant yanks.

dope

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the lime.

You go where the market is.

The contestant stated: does anyone smell sausage?

The same

Is "gritting" the same as "salting", or are they actually putting down dirt? Or something else entirely?

The dude can just make another one easily. It’s the IP that costs 40k not the art itself. It’s essentially an NFT.

It's the well-known statistical problem. Race and gender is highly correlated with a lot of other factors, so if you optimize for any of those factors for whatever reasons, you get a bias in race/gender. And next you're called out to be racist or sexist.

Good

Sounds like it goes into a pot and gets divied up as needed. That's how other taxes work.

Sounds like stupid, but entirely typical, government greed and waste

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Yeah there's weird stuff like that. Kinda like how women's "room" temp is a few degrees higher than that of guys, so when men determine the climate control, women generally feel colder.

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Vehicle and fuel taxes go into the general pot and are spent just like most other taxes. They do not directly pay for road maintenance.