TheRiov wrote:
You're making a strong case for an argument that you simply don't believe oppression in America exists because you don't suffer it yourself.
Repeatedly posting Anecdotes and then making blanket claims about lack of racism, persecution, etc smells of trying to overwhelm stats with quips. Find statistics that back up your claim or you're just posting smoke
Well, seeing as even the DOJ thinks
statistics are unnecessary to demonstrate bias, I don't see what the problem is.*
Actually, strike that. I do see the problem. The problem is that you're simply accepting oppression as a given and want other people to disprove it. This isn't just a matter of finding statistics and claiming they constitute "oppression"; it's a matter of demonstrating that the things you're calling "oppression" are, in fact, oppression, and happen, and are officially condoned, on a widespread enough basis to constitute oppression rather than just... anecdotal incidences of misbehavior, or in some cases, not even misbehavior.
It's particularly amusing that you ask for such studies when the tools touted as demonstrating it
do not, in fact actually work, and psychology itself having a major
issue with reproducibility. One might be hard-pressed to find a study on "oppression" that is credible at all, especially since the definition of "oppression" is what's at issue here. I really don't care if some lefty professor finds that "oppression" exists; he may be well qualified to conduct the study, but it isn't for academia to define oppression. That's for the public at large to do,
including the right, white people, males, etc.
That's why incidents like this take place. Had this incident actually been real, it would unquestionably have been evidence that some racists were running around there at the college (though not necessarily of oppression; the mere existence of hateful people doesn't = oppression). The people doing it are smart enough to understand that they have to create an incident that meets everyone's definition of racism.
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The report. While the report cites court findings that statistical evidence isn't required, a DOJ report isn't a court case, which lacks due process or any meaningful check on the DOJ's subjective judgment. Furthermore, court cases
are about specific anecdotes, and the courts do not like to establish numeric thresholds for deciding future cases because that would prejudice examination of the specific evidence of such cases. The courts may not need statistical evidence in specific cases, but the DOJ certainly does if it wishes to issue reports on bias that are anything other than "it exists because we say so."