(05-03-2022 09:52 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(05-03-2022 09:49 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(05-03-2022 09:46 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(05-03-2022 09:41 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(05-03-2022 09:38 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Well, the results are disproportionate, and have as much statistical validity for racism as the stats on traffic stops, but I see it as self-selection, not racism. Nobody is forcing black women to have abortions.

LOL to the bolded!!!! As if anybody here thinks that disproportionate = racist.

Well, I guess anybody here means just you, so maybe your statement is correct for N=1, BUT...

Disproportionality is the defining benchmark for all sorts of practices or outcomes deemed to be racist or to show racial bias. Traffic stops, incarceration lengths, hiring of policemen, whatever.

Right... and that benchmark has been railed against endlessly here... and rightly so most of the time IMO. It was therefore funny in that light to see you type "Well, the results are disproportionate..."

Well, I thought GO was misusing the stats in much the same way (most of) the Left misuse racial stats. Sauce for the goose, and so forth. Interesting you find even-handed applications to be amusing.

I thought he was being ironic to make a point. But maybe he meant it literally.