zeke5123a
11hr ago
That suggests that potential victims are equally distributed amongst the population. But if races are somewhat segregated, then it doesn’t follow that rape victims are randomly selected.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Sure but that’s primarily because they are concerned that the lunch mob will “get it wrong.” That is, it is a prudential concern.
zeke5123a
1d ago
You are right! Somehow I had always heard it as rape whereas it seems he was accused of sexual harassment. I also had heard the alleged victim recanted which appears spurious.
I guess at minimum it seems Till’s guilt was uncertain and the punishment didn’t meet the potential crime.
Arday being pushed out of Cambridge for his academic crimes was entirely proportionate AND proven. So again, radically different from Till.
zeke5123a
1d ago
I don’t know if this is too post worthy, but many black activists have called the cancellation of Jason Arday and the resulting suicide a lynching. It makes me believe they don’t understand why many people found lynching to be bad.
The classic case is Emmet Till. He was accused of raping a white woman but didn’t. Less people would be worried about the irregular justice of lynch mobs if they accurately hung rapists and Till wouldn’t be martyr if he actually raped the white woman. It was his innocence that really made the lynching galling.
In the Arday context, no one argues he isn’t guilty of the charges. Instead, they claim accurately castigating Arday repeatedly for his crime is a modern day lynching. So either they believe any criticism of blacks is per se illegitimate and blacks are naturally innocent regardless of their actions or they are trying to use powerful iconography to prevent criticism of blacks. But that’s destroying their seed capital.
zeke5123a
1d ago
No there is still a difference. Boromir repents when the ring has eluded his grasp. Yes he fought valiantly to protect the hobbits but if he had taken the ring I don’t think he gives it back.
Faramir still has the ring basically on his possession yet lets Frodo and the ring go.
zeke5123a
2d ago
Yes and no. There were core elements that were dropped. But many core elements remained. For Hollywood standards, it was a pretty faithful adoption.
I wish they had kept the scouring of the shire and made Aragorn less unsure of himself.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Putting aside the euphemism of asylum seeker, I think your argument is somewhat flawed.
Yes, true refugees probably should have a lower standard relative to an immigrant. But there comes a point where the damage caused by refugees outweighs the moral benefit of taking them in.
I think “they rape so much we need to explain ‘rape is bad’” is the line.
zeke5123a
4d ago
That’s great. Can my private company not hire people because I don’t like their skin color?
zeke5123a
8d ago
First, see the data in the Harvard discrimination case (ie there is no indication it applied for one discipline and not the other / was massive).
Estimates about a 12 point LSAT jump for being black in competitive schools. 12 is very large.
zeke5123a
8d ago
In American schools, affirmative action isn’t a “little boost” but a massive one. It appears to be the same at Cambridge.
zeke5123a
9d ago
He probably died from exhaustion after running 1,000 miles in a few days
zeke5123a
10d ago
American Catholics by and large are willing to take their own counsel on matters of key religious doctrine (eg abortion).
zeke5123a
10d ago
American Catholics are so profoundly Protestant in attitudes even if they find beauty in the Catholic tradition.
zeke5123a
10d ago
Whilst Paul does not address government policy qua government, Paul states he who does not work does not eat (ie Paul recognized the danger of welfare without work requirement).
Thus, Christian mercy is mixed with Christian pragmatism. That is, while the scripture tells us to give the stranger a drink, it also tells us not to give the same stranger drink after drink.
zeke5123a
12d ago
I think some discrimination is positive for some high performers if ambitious. They know they have to actually work twice as hard to hit the same standard.
If I am looking at two employees who’ve been in corporate America and progressed rapidly through the ranks in the last ten years and one is a white male and the other is a protected class, I would generally expect the white male to be much more competent.
zeke5123a
13d ago
I thought about this. Employers also pay for their plan. I don’t know the details well enough to understand how the employers portion jives with the overall.
zeke5123a
14d ago
So if supply - demand curves are generally accurate, you want to decrease price but limiting supply, and think price will come down?
zeke5123a
14d ago
When your margin is capped, the only way to increase profit is increasing revenue. Predicted exploding costs means larger premiums means higher revenue.
Okay but you’d still expect competition to try to keep costs low to compete on premiums meaning you’d expect all things equal for insurance companies to want to keep costs low.
But the flip side to that is regulatory complexity means there are large moats to entrance decreasing competitive pressures.
Perhaps what you are trying to argue is that all things equal a larger amount of black crime would be interracial compared to white crime?
I agree that would be true as a matter of logic. As a matter of fact, though, all things are not equal.
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