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Re:Outrage culture is out of control by mikepurvis on Friday February 22, 2019 @02:35PM (#19228384)
Because it is a racial issue. Arguing otherwise is just advancing the standard "all lives matter" response— telling the occupant of a burning building that "all houses matter" as the firetruck busily sprays the building next door and ignores the actual inferno.

There's a pretty widely-cited and thoughtful rebuttal to the Fryer paper, which I'd encourage you to read in its entirety: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jfeldman/blog/roland-fryer-wrong...

"Even if one accepts the logic of statistical discrimination versus racial bias, it is an inappropriate choice for a study of police shootings. The method that Fryer employs has, for the most part, been used to study traffic stops and stop-and-frisk practices. In those cases, economic theory holds that police want to maximize the number of arrests for the possession of contraband (such as drugs or weapons) while expending the fewest resources. If they are acting in the most cost-efficient, rational manner, the officers may use racial stereotypes to increase the arrest rate per stop. This theory completely falls apart for police shootings, however, because officers are not trying to rationally maximize the number of shootings."

"It is a failure of journalism that the New York Times heavily promoted this study without seeking critical perspectives from experts in the field. Fryer makes basic methodological errors, overstates the quality of his results, and casually uses the term 'racial bias' in a way that is nearly guaranteed to be misinterpreted by anyone who isn’t an economist."

Re:Outrage culture is out of control by leereeves on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:59PM (#19229947)
All lives do matter. The lives of white people killed by police do matter. Why would you insist 100% of coverage be about your personal (racially scoped) cause?

"All lives matter" is not suggesting the "firetruck" should ignore the "house next door" (black victims of police violence).

BLM, on the other hand, is suggesting exactly that: the firetruck should ignore the white victims.

Re:Outrage culture is out of control by mikepurvis on Sunday February 24, 2019 @03:30PM (#19240448)
I'm just some guy on the internet, so my words won't mean anything to you; you'll need to hear it from someone you're able to hear.

But your argument is against a strawman. No one is asking for white victims to be ignored, and no one is asking for "100% of coverage" to be about injustices against blacks. Obviously the lives of white people murdered by cops matter, but those murders get attention and sympathetic coverage by default. Those are the crimes where people start to ask whether policing as an institution needs to be reformed, instead of asking whether the victim was wearing the right clothing or was sufficient subservient or had just committed a petty theft. All that BLM activists and their sympathizers are asking for is to see similar coverage across the spectrum. That so many whites see this as an attack is just indicative of how much work there is yet to do.