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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by scarface74 on Monday April 25, 2022 @07:49PM (#31162347)
How do police know the income levels of minorities when they are being pulled over more?

The police definitely don’t know my household income level (I work remotely for $BigTech and I make over twice the median income in my county) when they see my 6 foot 3 son walking through our neighborhood back to our house in a county that’s only 3.9% Black and stopped him to question him twice.

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by yucky on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:48PM (#31174113)
I think you have a mental block on the subject due to solely comparing black to white, and assuming that since whites are the majority that it must mean the system is giving them preference because they're white and that it's systemic racism.

For this to be true though, whites would also have the same advantages over Asians, but it's the opposite. So logically does that mean whites are discriminated against more than Asians, since that is what the numbers say? Or is it maybe that different cultures are more or less likely than others to do things that warrant police attention?

Another example of your logical fallacy is comparing men vs women. There are HUGE disparities in police interactions between men and women, is it because of sexism or is it possible that one gender reacts more aggressively during interactions with police on average..?