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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by ProfessorLayton on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:04PM (#17864789)
Except one doesn't have to fear being killed by the police to be wary of them. The fact is that POC are arrested disproportionately to their population size. Being incarcerated is enough to cut your chances of a job offer or a call back by %50[1]. There are many underlying reasons as to why POC people are arrested more, including remnants of systemic oppression, but that is another argument for another time.

It's easy to hand-wave other's hardships away when one doesn't experience them first-hand, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

[1] https://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/

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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by prostoalex on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:45PM (#17865063)
Let's say someone doesn't want to hand-wave other's hardships away. Out of multiple possible venues, such as

(a) political action (voting, city council meetings, writing to a congressman)

(b) civil action (rallies, protests, community organizing, civil disobedience)

(c) work action (send an email, post on internal slack channel)

(d) public relations (letter to an editor, an op/ed in local paper, getting a local news station to cover the issue)

is (c) the most effective for achieving the desired results?

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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by ProfessorLayton on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:10PM (#17865216)
I’m not sure I follow, none of those actions are mutually exclusive, so any and all combinations are available, even if one type of action is more effective than others.
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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by commandlinefan on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @10:57PM (#17865154)
Men are arrested hundreds of times more than women. Is the justice system sexist, too?
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Re:Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intoleran... by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @11:09PM (#17865209)
> Men are arrested hundreds of times more than women.

It's not actually "hundreds of times" more. It is, however, more than 10 to 1, which is more than the ratio of black to white inmates (even accounting for proportion of the general population).

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