The Fallacy of White Privilege

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(11-01-2016, 11:13 AM)fredtoast Wrote: This has nothing to do with treating innocent people like criminals just because of the color of their skin.

No matter how you try to spin it you are saying that white individuals deserve to be treated better just because of the color of their skin.  And that is a white privilege because it leads to innocent black people being treated like criminals and white people being treated like non-criminals based on the color of their skin instead of their actual guilt or innocence.

Yet you refused to answer the question.

Everyone does risk assessments in their everyday life:
"Should I eat this lunchmeat or has it gone bad?" 
"Should I speed up to make the orange light before it turns red?"
"Is that shortcut through the alley worth the time saved?"

According to the FBI in 2012, 54.9% of all robbery arrests were African Americans. This is despite the fact that African Americans as of the 2010 census were 12.1% of the US population. That is more than 4.5x over-representation of their population.

I never said it was a matter of white people deserving to be treated better. But way to automatically assume people are racist.

Ask yourself why they didn't also use a person of Asian descent in their little taxi study. They were 1.0% of the robbery arrests in 2012, despite being 3.6% of the US population in 2010. Less than a third of their representation. You think taxis would have drove away from them in the dark?


Meanwhile people of Asian descent make the most money of anyone in the US, have the lowest employment rate of anyone in the US, the highest amount of 2 parent families of anyone in the US, and the lowest crime rate based upon their total population of anyone in the US.

But somehow people always make it White vs Black. Those people are the racists. It's a matter of law abiding vs non-law abiding and people making the decision that statistically puts them in the position of least possible harm. Simple as that. That is why even the article says during daylight, both hailed down 40 cabs without a problem.



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2012 FBI Stats:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/43tabledatadecoverviewpdf

2010 Census Info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census#Census_2010