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Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by wolverine876 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:04PM (#29927553)
It is about power, and in the US African-American and women (and LGBTQ and others) are widely discriminated against, and thus widely lack power. White people are much safer around police because they have power in the legal system (generally speaking about the entire country); they can protect themselves. An African-American teenager complaining about police abuse isn't likely to get far. Women complaining about sexual assault or harassment are routinely dismissed - literally, as a politically correct (by their politics) practice of some males I know.

The parent reads like the ever-present 'reverse discrimination' complaint, but it's not the same. Discrimination and prejudice are about power. If the abuser doesn't have the power, they are a lot less dangerous.

Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by int_19h on Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:36PM (#29927941)
> White people are much safer around police because they have power in the legal system (generally speaking about the entire country); they can protect themselves.

This is true statistically, but I think OP's point is that statistics should not be used to dismiss individual experiences. Daniel Shaver was white, for example. Cheye Calvo was a white mayor when his house was raided (speaking of power!).

Thing is, police has too much power relative to the vast majority of citizens. The delta varies drastically between different population groups, but it's "too much" for all of them.

Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by wolverine876 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:21PM (#29928433)
> This is true statistically

No, it's true really. White people, overall, really have much more real power. It's not a number in a report, but a hard fact of reality.

And then, any time racism comes up, lots of white people find any way to downplay it.

Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by int_19h on Thursday January 13, 2022 @09:08PM (#29929796)
"Statistically true" is not the opposite of "really true". It just means that what's true overall is not necessarily true for every specific individual.
Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by wolverine876 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:03PM (#29930471)
It's also a way of trivializing a real thing with real, serious impact, by omitting the 'real' aspect.
Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by malwrar on Thursday January 13, 2022 @11:47PM (#29930676)
What sort reaction do you expect when you approach these sorts of conversations by essentially saying "your skin color tells me your entire life story, and disagreeing with me trivializes my own experiences"?
Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by wolverine876 on Saturday January 15, 2022 @12:28PM (#29948291)
Not my words. Who are you quoting?
Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by int_19h on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:02AM (#29931105)
I believe that is exactly the point OP was trying to make?..
Re:The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longi... by zozbot234 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @10:13PM (#29930196)
> White people are much safer around police because they have power in the legal system (generally speaking about the entire country); they can protect themselves.

This is Qanon-level conspiracy thinking. By and large, white folks are safer around police because their interactions are qualitatively different from the interactions Black folks have with police.

To be sure, this includes quite a bit of anti-Black racism within police forces, but even that is better described as prejudice than "white folks have undue power in the legal system". Also, to be clear, the criminal justice system does tend to screw over marginalized Black communities in countless ways - and this impacts the kinds of interactions Black folks have w/ police, but even that is a matter of bad structural/institutional design, not white folks individually having too much power.