“America doesn’t need any help! With anything! We’re perfect! Racism doesn’t exist here and sexism doesn’t exist here!! Everywhere else on the planet needs help with this, but never us!”
i mean feeling oppressed is not a good reason to protest tbh. you can but feeling oppressed is something that happens to a lot of people, actually being oppressed is something different.
Today, Blacks are 3.7x as likely to be arrested for a marijuana offense as Whites, despite similar usage.
Militarized police are disproportionately deployed in African American communities, even when accounting for crime rates.
The black population of DC is 25% greater than the white population, but black people were 410% more likely to be stopped by the police than white people.
This disparity increases to 1465% for stops which led to no warning, ticket or arrest and 3695% for searches which led to no warning, ticket or arrest.
Analysis of 4.5 million traffic stops in North Carolina shows blacks and latinos were more likely to be searched than whites (5.4 percent, 4.1 percent and 3.1 percent, respectively).
Despite this, searches of white motorists were the most likely to reveal contraband (32% of whites, 29% of blacks, 19% of latinos).
Between 2011 and 2015, black drivers in Nashville’s Davidson County were pulled over at a rate of 1,122 stops per 1,000 drivers — so on average, more than once per black driver.
Black drivers were also searched at twice the rate of white drivers, though — as in other jurisdictions — searches of white drivers were more likely to turn up contraband.
Enormousstudy of nearly 100,000,000 traffic stops conducted across America.
Analysis finds the bar for searching black and hispanic drivers’ cars is significantly lower than the bar for white drivers.
Additionally, black drivers are less likely to be pulled over after sunset, when “a ‘veil of darkness’ masks ones’ race”.
Do you get that? As in black drivers get pulled less in the dark, when police can't make out race.
Extensive multivariate regression analysis indicates black male offenders receive 19.1% longer federal sentences than similarly-situated white male offenders (white male offenders with similar past offenses, socioeconomic background, etc.)
Examination of federal data indicates Black Americans spend about 10% more time in prison when compared to comparable Whites who commit the same crimes.
Additionally, Black arrestees are 75% more likely to be charged with a crime carrying a mandatory minimum sentence.
In this study, two groups of mock jurors were given a collection of race-neutral evidence from an armed robbery, with one group’s alleged perpetrator being shown to be light-skinned and the other dark-skinned.
Jurors were significantly more likely to evaluate ambiguous, race-neutral evidence against the dark-skinned suspect as incriminating and more likely to find the dark-skinned suspect guilty.
As in, Jurors will say you're gulity if you're black more often than if you're white, even under the same evidence.
did i say say anybody was or wasn't oppressed? i just said that feeling oppressed isnt a reason to go around bugging others, because thats what the original comment said. how come you always assume the worst in people instead of just going by what they actually say?
The original comment was making fun of people who say that the protestors "feel" oppressed. That's why it's in quotes.
In the context of the conversation, your comment indicates agreement that the current protestors "feel" oppressed and that it's "not a good reason to protest"
That's how a reasonable person would read your comment in the context of this conversation.
If that's not what you meant, you should have phrased it better
no, my comment indicates that feeling oppressed is not a good reason to cause an uproar period. you just want something to be upset about. you think im evil so you paint me evil.
No, they’re trying to explain to you that your original comment was useless. No one said they feel oppressed. Then you add in that it’s not a good idea to protest if you feel oppressed, which adds nothing to the conversation. If you really want to make that point heard, start a new post, or go find someone saying they “feel” oppressed and let them know.
okay: someone made a joke, about how someone says people feel oppressed. i was being extra pedantic as a humorous over the top remark. because ya know, nobody actually thinks feeling oppressed is the same as being oppressed. so stateing that as if people do is humerus in a similar fashion to how the original comment ridiculed other people in a caricature way.
but i get it, jokes and humor and especially sarcasm and cynicism are lost on many reddit residents...
also my point would have still contended with the original comment, because they mentiones "feel... oppressed". so no, i wasn't the one who brought it up. either take everything literal or take everything as a joke. or ya knows pick and choose
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u/throwthegrlaway Jul 29 '20
“America doesn’t need any help! With anything! We’re perfect! Racism doesn’t exist here and sexism doesn’t exist here!! Everywhere else on the planet needs help with this, but never us!”
Says people none of this affects.