Re:Reuters Data Scientist: The post that led to my termination
by zozbot234 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @08:09PM
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All this post is really saying is that "shoot first, ask questions later" policing affects whites no less than blacks, controlling for relevant factors. But it's quite plausible that the detrimental effects of this style of policing (euphemistically referred to as "proactive" within OP's post) are nonetheless most relevant to Blacks and Black communities due to the aforementioned factors. So "Black Lives Matter" as a shorthand for the movement towards more sensible policing seems like a reasonable claim, even though whites would also benefit from being shot at less.
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Re:Reuters Data Scientist: The post that led to my termination
by jevoten on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:02PM
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The claims of BLM and allied activists are not so measured and reasonable as the shorthand you propose:
> At BLM protests, and from BLM proponents, we have since heard that “it’s open season” for police to kill black people, and that police are “hunting” black people. According to the BLM website itself, “Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise” by “state-sanctioned violence against Black people''.
Re:Reuters Data Scientist: The post that led to my termination
by zozbot234 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:25PM
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> "Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise" by "state-sanctioned violence against Black people".
This is not an unfair characterization, especially if you expand the scope of "state-sanctioned violence" against Black communities beyond the matter of policing to encompass the criminal justice system as a whole. The whole ideology of "tough on crime", notably favored and pushed by the current POTUS and VPOTUS alike, has been among their most dismal failures in living memory. Sad!