Saturday, November 13, 2021

The demagoguery of disproportional effects on black or minority people

It has become quite fashionable and ideologically or politically correct to bombard the general public on a daily basis with very selective articles, reports, comments by prominent individuals etc. that black people (or minorities) are disproportionally more effected by something than white (supremacist, racist) people!

Most of these claims are almost pure demagoguery often insinuating white people did something to affect black people (or minorities) negatively.

However, it is conveniently overlooked, suppressed, or intentionally ignored that e.g. white people living in similar circumstances (e.g. low incomes) are actually not fairing much better than black people (or minorities).

Second, frequently statistical facts confirm that black people (or minorities) do something differently than white people for whatever reason. As a prime example,  take the commission of certain crimes and its concomitant recidivism. What about  families with missing fathers? And we could go on ...
When inconvenient statistical facts get in the way of a predominant ideological narrative!

Last, but not least besides white supremacy, there also exists e.g. black supremacy! If you never heard or learnt about this fact, how come?

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