Quote (fender @ Jan 26 2022 05:38pm)
here's the crayon version for racist scum thinking policing and healthcare are somehow similar and therefore fair comparisons: criminal behaviour is not reliably predicted by race, but by socio-economic factors. meaning racial profiling based on previous racial discrimination is just adding one discrimination on top of a previous one. on the other hand, SOME medical conditions / deficiencies / risks CAN be reasonably safely predicted by race. addressing this in an attempt to create favourable outcomes during a global pandemic can NOT be locically turned into an argument in favour of racial profiling. only truly disgusting, racist hacks would even attempt to try that - as seen in this thread, by the usual suspects...
No, they don't. Everything you said was wrong. Crime rates remain disproportionate among races even when normalized for socio-economic factors like income. They are not just elevated, they are gigantic multiples, a factor of 10.



No amount of wishful thinking changes those statistical realities. You don't get to just assume when you wave a magic wand of weighting statistics for social factors that the disparities disappear, they very obviously do not, and its not even close.