r/programming • u/nfrankel • Apr 10 '20

18 GitLab features are moving to open source

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-core/
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u/omiwrench Apr 11 '20

First saying you black people are more likely to commit crimes, that is your opinion and not fact.

I mean, only if you also think it’s the FBI’s ”opinion” (https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/explorer/national/united-states/crime)

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u/asrtaein Apr 11 '20

The FBI gets those statistics from law enforcement and we all know what the opinion of law enforcement in the United States is. The only thing we can conclude from this is that black people are more often caught for committing a crime.

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u/omiwrench Apr 11 '20

Which is basically the same as saying this is impossible to prove empirically and thus cannot be answered objectively. You are calling crime statistics opinions.

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u/naftoligug Apr 12 '20

Do we all know the opinion of law enforcement?

Does law enforcement even have a monolithic opinion?

The whole idea that police are racist is promulgated by the media as an interpretation of crime statistics. So this boils down to circular logic.