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Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies
Molly McHugh (3774987) writes with an intriguing use of VR technology: "It's as simple as making a light-skinned person feel connected to a virtual, darker skinned self—a thought experiment pretty much impossible without the immersive potency of VR. The effect is achieved by outfitting participants in VR headsets with built-in head-tracking and motion capture capabilities that sync actual movement to virtual experience." From the article: Evolving from cruder methods, VR is a natural extension of research examining the ways that people think differently when made to feel like they are part of a meaningfully different social group, known as an outgroup.
... What’s most exciting about this channel of research is that it gets at the kind of complex, subtle prejudices that most people can’t even articulate if asked directly.
Barack Obama.
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
My Dayz avatar is black. Does that count?
What is a white man to do in a virtual black mans body in the zombie apocalypse? I killed my white friend on accident with a shotgun to the back of the head. I promise the virtual color of our skin was not a factor in his accidental death.
white people in black bodies don't commit as much crime...
Seems rather biased to think that only white people can have racial biases.
". Whatâ(TM)s most exciting about this channel of research is that it gets at the kind of complex, subtle prejudices that most people canâ(TM)t even articulate if asked directly."
This is sort of MMO old news. Any MMO with sufficient character customization options will let you create a black (human) or female avatar.
And anyone whose 'gender-bended' or 'race-bended' can tell you all kinds of ways they were subtly treated differently as a result.
Just an observation. I'm not saying this research is worthless or anything. Its an interesting avenue of study.
I've an easier method. Adopt an African American Child. I did and my view on many social issues pretty much changed overnight.
You tell your kids not to go to Chicago because of the crime, I tell mine not to go because of the police. I don't need a VR headset to see that reality.
Why do I think "Star-bellied Sneetch"?
Dog is my co-pilot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me
interacial porn jokes
The chaps at the Slashdot editorial department are choice very edgy stories this day and time. I predict 500+ comments on such edgy TFA!
dog bodies?
Pit bull or Chihuahua, can't decide...
Try playing an MMO as a female or a strange race nobody likes. This is nothing new or groundbreaking. Plus the VR graphics are so terrible that it just looks ridicules.
That's what this is, isn't it?
Will I finally be able to dance?
OK, I lied; I do have another question. But I'm going to refrain...
Dark Reflection
I misread that line as, "... making a light-skinned person feel connected to a virtual, darker skinned elf."
After all, plenty of white people already pretend to be the dark skinned Drow, "Drizzt Do'Urden"
And though I'm not a dark skinned non-elf, I don't believe today's non brain-connected-interface VR could give any form of realistic, non-stereotyped, highly bias(sic) experience.
Keeping in mind, this is research, not proven to be viable in achieving its results of communicating the true experience of the life a victim of societal prejudice struggles with. I do hope some day this leads to methods of communicating greater understanding between people, and more so...by the time it does, prejudice will have become a historical curiosity. *sigh*
That would be a fascinating experiment.
Why just black. Why not brown, red, or yellow.
I lived in India for several months, I know what it's like to walk into a restaurant and have 20 pairs of eyes watch every move I make. I'm sure someone from Mexico or Senegal would experience the same thing.
I know people of all skin colors that have lived among other people of different skin colors and I've heard plenty of stories to tell of ignorant people making rash judgements. I've heard people from India say racist things about people with dark skin, and I've heard people with dark skin say racist things about people with lighter skin. I know a white person that was stopped by a cop in a neighborhood where people with browner skin colors predominately live. He didn't complain about 'walking while white'.
I'm sure that no matter where someone goes in this world, people with a skin color or any other attribute that is in the minority are viewed differently from people in the majority. What makes some people think they are experiencing something no one else in the world experiences or can understand? Or that only white people don't get it? Why was it in college that groups of people with similar attributes (i.e. ethnic background, religion, political leanings) all tended to group together and often made fun of everyone not like them.
A good step in getting rid of racists attitudes is to ignore the morons who are racist and stop letting them interfere with our lives. Generalizing the attitudes and behaviors of an entire group of people just because of the traits of a small minority is prejudice.
No matter what your skin color is.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
I know millennials think they are the first generation that is morally superior and have the answers to everything. But I was playing Mike Tyson's Punch out when your parents were still wearing Zooba's. Not everyone is the racist. People don't need this shit. Go out and do something productive and beneficial to society.
I'd tan dark enough that I'd get pulled over at least once for no reason at all, “Just checking... are your turn signals working?” (when I knew absolutely that I had used them, and they were functioning).
Didn't change my behaviour or perception of other people though.
Digital Black Face?
So when we may see an alleged black person talking normal instead of saying, ““I wanna dank de honky makers uh dis VR be a natural 'estension fo' allowin' me t'change mah' skin colo' and be one uh dem. 'S coo', bro.”
Can I expect a black guy in a virtual white cop's simulation to shoot me as I experience being a black dude in same simulation?
Put blacks in white bodies and then have them accused of being racist for every action they take! Would it still be racist?
I am pretty damned tired of being presumed a racist because of the pallor of my skin.
I'm fucking sick and tired of this incessant cry of racism every time something goes wrong for minorities.
And I'm really fucking sick and tired of this whole racism issue being treated like some kind of thing you have to get fully on board with, show you care, say the right things, etc or you are somehow supporting racism. Progressives shit a brick when people started wearing American Flags on their lapels to "show" their patriotism. But they have no problem brow beating people into participating in shit to "voice their opposition" to racism.
And I am absolutely, positively, fucking sick and tired of morons using terms like "feel connected", "subtle prejudices", "meaningfully different social group". Gawd! Fuck you, you stupid metro-sexual assholes.
Fuck you. I'm not a racist, but I'm not wearing your damned ribbons or signing up for you dumbass sensitivity classes or anything else. I treat everybody with respect and expect the same in return.
That's a self-serving, confusing, rarely used, and nonetheless-racist definition of racism. Any form of prejudice, different treatment, discrimination, whatever based on skin color is just plain wrong.
And yes, you can be sexist against men too. Unless you're fighting for across-the-board equal treatment under the law, you're just picking a tribe and making the same mistakes as everyone before us.
I can suggest a cheaper, significantly more effective way: full body henna tattoo.
There is no physical discomfort for the user; they can wear the same clothing, perform their usual activities in real-world scenarios, and their sensations are not altered. The same cannot be said with VR gear.
The effect would be immediate, and while not permanent, the user cannot stop participation because of some slight discomfort: they'd have to live the life of a non-white person for several weeks. You're not going to get the same kind of emotional reactions unless participants are all-in, and some reactions are going to take time to develop after the initial shock.
eskwayrd = m^2c^4
Now I only need an opinion on this topic. Bennett please contribute.
In my skyrim playthrough I chose "Dark Elf" because it sounded cool. Only problem is, the dark elves have little representation throughout Skyrim and most groups are prejudiced against them. Everywhere I went was a bunch of racist Nords and asshole Thalmor
Pretty quickly I came to the opinion that the main factions were a bunch of racist assholes and I had no horse in their race (a metaphor for real elections), and really just hoped for as bloody a battle as possible between them both.
After a while I started to identify with that part of the character, to the point that it did effect the choices I made in the game. It really is a powerful disincentive to know you are dealing with someone who sees you right off the bad as not their equal.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
The major complaint black people have is that, they are being treated differently by white people, cops especially. Unless you simulate other people seeing you as black, it might not help that much.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Journalist took this drug than made your skin dark and wrote a best-seller (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Like_Me) of his experiences. I remember the book influencing the civil rights debate.
You wonder why niggers are always so angry and have an attitude, loot, riot, steal and assault others? Think about waking up and looking at that ape face in the mirror. Then realize that this is as good as it gets. It is all down hill from there on. Your limited intelligence relegates you to the dregs of society. You are never going to write a book, much less read one. If you do not have athletic skills or rap "ability", you will never make any honest money. Those silver back nigger women are ugly as hell. The only thing you have going for you is that the Kardashians made it popular for white women to want to date you. So there is that at least. Everything else.... pretty much sucks. In Africa you could be King Oonga Boonga. In civilized countries you are not shit. Jus keepin it fur reelz homey.
So there should be a fundemental research question that this research will answer, what exactly is that question?
"What’s most exciting about this channel of research is that it gets at the kind of complex, subtle prejudices that most people can’t even articulate if asked directly."
in other words...
They are going to try to find racism where none actually exists and then call white people racist.
Imaginary reality to "prove" imaginary racism. How fitting...
Hint: it ain't the skin-color. If "whitey" really were racist, Asians would've suffered from it too. But they are doing rather well. So well, in fact, that schools and colleges alike deduct points from applicants, who identify themselves as "Asians".
The most likely explanation is single-parenthood rate: children growing up with only a mother (which is still the overwhelming majority of single-"parent" households) are much likelier to grow up with problems live sucky lives — all human civilizations knew this and frowned upon unwed mothers. Not because "sex is a sin", as is the common Illiberal's strawman, but because bringing a child into this world without a loving father is a sin... Heck, we know it too!
For some reason, currently 67% of Black kids grow up in such families — compared with merely 17% of Asians and 25% of Whites... But only the KKKonservative Libertarians connect the dots.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
The easiest method would blackface but that hasn't been kosher since Silver Streak ...
(captcha: victim)
See, this is exactly the sort of thing that Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have been warning us all about. First of all you try and simulate reality. Then your program gets smart enough that it starts to formulate desires. Next thing you know it wants to experiment with brain transplants and bioengineering techniques. Before you know it...
Wait ... what's that, you say? The headline should read "Virtual Reality experimenters want to give white users black avatars?"
Why didn't they say that in the first place?
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
Really? Really?! We need a VR SIMULATOR to understand what it's like to be black in America??!
How about you TALK to your black neighbors? Is making a computer simulation somehow easier than listening to another person explain how life is like for them? NO WONDER things are the way they are.
I hope they make it realistic and allow you to choose between being a native-born black-skinned American or a European-born black-skinned person who moved to America. Though they have the same skin color, they achieve wildly different socio-economic outcomes statistically.
I'm not black I'm a dark elf.
What matters is how others see you. If you are white, this VR thing will give you the illusion that you are black - but others will still see that you are white.
That's the only hook I can see for getting any white person to want to morph into a loud, smelly, uneducated, perennially violent VR avatar.
But I can't. I just can't. This is fucking retarded. I'm embarrassed of a society where an idea like this gets any traction at all.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
Admit it. You just want to look down and see tits.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
Bullshit. These guys need to read Black Like Me . And then try it out for themselves.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Body paint is cheaper and works better.
That was a really interesting experiment. White people then realised how black people were treated by policemen, estate agents, employers, etc. You can see it here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geDOY-MLuh8
What's your point again?
So your solution to racism is to pretend it doesn't exist? Great logic.
If they drink tea they are just British.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
I don`t care about racial exchange, how about gender? :D just for the lulz!
I guess VR makes it ok, right?
Literally.
lose != loose
http://www.comics.org/issue/23...
- Mike
Asia is 10X more racist than America or Europe. They would never dream of augmented reality - putting an Asian (Japanese etc.) in a whitie or Afican's place! It would be seen as insulting, an attack on national identity, weakness.. and on and on
You liberal hipsters need to WAKE UP and smell what you're pushing.
Clearly a man before his time.
Do you think they'll be able to give us just certain parts of black bodies?
Asking for a friend.
You are welcome on my lawn.
They did this on a TV show before, was somewhat interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
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I've traveled to Asia 4 times and have visited areas that get very few foreigners. I get the stares, sometimes no one will sit next to me on the train, once I was even denied an advertisement being handed out on the street when the woman looked up and saw me.
People who are different attract attention. It's a natural human reaction. I've never been insulted (to my face) and I take as many precautions as I can to do what is socially acceptable.
P.S. - If you want a unique experience, be the only white guy at a Japanese onsen.
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
Here's a really helpful note for the /.ers who are having a hard time comprehending that you can possess white privilege while being discriminated against yourself in other ways:
If people talk about privilege, it's not just one spectrum, it's a whole interaction of power structures. That is to say, white privilege exists within a system where the majority of people are white, and you enjoy a majority privilege. You could call it "majority" privilege if you want.
If you've worked at a place where you're the only white person, you may feel discriminated against but it's good to remember that it's just within that microcosm - you're still safe and accepted within the larger society outside. In fact, it's that larger society and the polarizing majority that often makes minorities exclusive of other ethnicities, or react in ways that might seem bigoted in turn. That's just group polarization at work.
Just because you're white doesn't mean that you don't also suffer if you're poor, disabled, unconventionally attractive, overweight, gay, or any other number of factors, it just means that you have a certain set of privileges because you're white. Things like being able to see yourself represented positively in most media, or not being 'othered'. Basically, white is the default in our society.
If somebody says you have "white privilege", they don't mean you're inherently racist unless they're stupid and don't understand what privilege means.
Being racist is to hold prejudices, stereotype people, and practice discrimination.
Is somebody calling you a racist? Check down this list:
1. Do I have a prejudice against the group in question?
2. Am I displaying stereotyped or overgeneralized thinking?
3. Do I engage in practices or actions that are discriminatory, or designed to suppress opportunity or access?
If the answers to these are no, you likely aren't racist, good job! Shrug it off, feel comfortable in yourself. If you're uncertain or defensive on any of those points, rethink your ideas or do a little bit of "opposition" research. If you're sure of yourself, it doesn't hurt to see what the other side has to say. You might learn a bit.
However, just because you're not racist doesn't mean that the system doesn't benefit you.
The system generally does benefit you! On the macrocosmic scale, at least. If you don't want to be told you have white privilege? Work to change the system, and that doesn't mean subjugating yourself or anything ridiculous like that. It's eliminating those three factors above in society - stereotypes, prejudices, and discrimination.
They should issue the VR goggles to the cops an make white people look black.
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Won't that cause lots of radiation?
Isn't this, more or less, the concept of the movie Surrogates?
antipaucity
Next Halloween little children will be walking about wearing a rubber tube round their head and body with a sign reading "I'm Dick Cheney's rectal hydration tube."
Haha
... their own kind?
Do white people have something which non-whites don't, which would mean it was 'unfair' for non-whites to not be allowed to FORCE themselves into white people's lives?
That is exactly what every 'anti-racist' is saying: that to prevent non-whites from living around whites would be deleterious to them - which means that they believe white people produce better societies than non-whites - otherwise there could be no benefit to non-whites from living around whites...
LOL.
Then they can finally know what it is like to be actually 100% black.
that there exists two kinds of people in the world. The first are Marxists who want to blame society's problems on the moral failure of the have's. The other are racists who blame society's problems on the moral failure of the have-not's
Maybe we could all pause for a moment, take a deep breath, and:
Acknowledge that while racism does still exist, society is doing pretty good when you need clever experiments and (in this case) advanced technology to be able to measure it objectively.
The glass is half full.
This experiment has actually been done in the 60's. A white man, Griffin I think his name was, took some drugs to make his skin darker, and then traveled in the south of the USA for a few months. He wrote a book on his experiences called, "Black Like Me".
pgmer6809
If they got to temporarily experience being black, I suspect the thing most white men would most remember is how much blatant racism and sexism black people actually have and get away with.
>"It's as simple as making a light-skinned person feel connected to a virtual, darker skinned self"
Except it is far less about skin color than speech, beliefs, attitude, clothing, how one acts, who one associates with, etc, etc. Race issues are rarely just about skin color... that is WAY oversimplifying the whole topic. Just slapping on a different color might change the way many people initially treat or interact with you, but far too many people point to that as being the main problem, when it has more to do with other factors. Still, it sounds like a good experiment to teach tolerance and remind people that you can't judge a book by its cover (you might have some notions, but should always keep an open mind).
The problem is that all those protected class benefits are not real either. Pointless.
SJW = Marxist = guilty of tens of millions of deaths in the last century. STFU!
French television made a more thorough experiment that can be watched as a 3-hour documentary on Youtube. They used all the tricks available to film to turn a black family living in Paris into a convincing white one and vice versa. This is worth watching even if you don't understand French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ("Dans la peau d'un noir").
You can always count on Timothy to drag these social/political garbage articles into /.
"and yet here you are commenting on one of his posts" the SJW would say.
Just to point out yet again what a bleeding heart sh*t bag liberal mouth piece he is I will say.
It's far easier to just have the cops shoot the white people, too. Then they'll know what it's like to be a "person of colour." :(
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
I lived in an apartment building where kids used to baseball bat and cinder block cars in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I was talking to a Waterloo Regional Police "Service" constable about my neighbor's car having a cinder block put through the windshield. I giving a description mentioned he was black, The constable said and I quote " A black man with a BMW he must be a drug dealer". Unfortunately the mostly white Police Services in Canada have a similar view. Racism does exist, White people are the ones in power, and they abuse black and native people every chance they get. I have never heard a Police office use the word Honkey, But the N word is very much in the vernacular in the Waterloo Regional Police Service when describing a black suspect.
I am white, I was raised in a 21 foot trailer in a community so small we counted the cows as people for the population sign. When I needed to use the bathroom I had to walk 50 feet into the woods to use the outhouse in 3 feet of snow. When I peed into the abyss I heard it tinkle as it had frozen before it hit the ice on the bottom. I grew up hearing one of my uncles referring to black people as coons and other terms I would never mention. Luckily most of the people I grew up with did not really give a **** about color. I was the definition of a backwoods redneck and I am eefing ashamed about how the Canadian police, Justice System, School Systems, Community Resources, Hospitals, Government, and Professional White people treat minorities especially Native and Black people in North America.
I am Transgender and as bad as I have it somedays i can say without a doubt I am still treated for the most part better than black and native people. Someone asked me once what could be worse than being transgender and I said being black and transgender in this effing country of effing bigots.
To err is to be human, to really screw up takes a computer and a human.
Not unless the VR suddenly gives you a victimhood complex and "it's not racist if we do it" attitude.
This ^ is utter bullshit. Canadians treat Natives like blacks. Not blacks like blacks.
Interesting, but I'll wait for the Vice City version.
"ah ahm no hracist"
"all racists say that"
police officers so they can learn to see how resisting cops, assaulting cops, mouthing-off to cops, acting suspiciously and generally having a chip on your shoulder can maximize the wariness of a cop who just wants to end his shift and go home alive to his wife and kids?
In every single one of these supposedly "racist cops" vs "gentle giants" cases, the entire incident would have gone down with no violence if the black guy had just behaved like an average white or asian kid and submitted to the search or arrest. You go along on the free ride to the cop shop and resolve it there (if it even goes that far - often the situation can be resolved by an honest calm conversation at the scene if there has been no other criminal activity). The guy in Missouri had just robbed a store and was walking down the middle of the street with his stolen goods and his accomplice, and then stupidly confronted the cop (probably because he knew he'd be ID'd and arrested for his ROBBERY). The guy in NYC was selling untaxed cigarettes (a MAJOR crime in a Democrat run high-tax locale) and he resisted arrest. Had he simply peacefully gone with the cops, he'd be alive today. You do not have the right to fight against the cops and resist arrest; "resisting arrest" is an additional offense. Personally, I think the guy dying over a cigarette arrest is idiotic, BUT the morons who populate NYC keep electing politicians who put a premium on things like cigarette taxes and restricted sizes of Big Gulps and salt shakers, so that's what they get.
As a young white man I was pulled-over many times by the cops - for driving through town alone late at night (I was going home from work late at night). I never once considered acting disrespectfully, arguing, reaching for things in my jacket or pants or glovebox, etc. I understood that every cop who pulled me over was just as scared in the encounter as I was and he just wanted to do his job and go home alive and well. I was always determined that BOTH of us would end the encounter alive and well... and I never got shot or arrested or beaten. On every single occasion, I was asked for ID, my tags were run, I was asked what I was up to, etc and was let to go on my way. Of course, it helped a lot that I aways was telling the truth, never "talked back", and was never leaving the scene of a crime or engaged in a crime. I COULD have loudly complained that my rights were being infringed and that the cop had no probable cause, and growsed that the cops involved probably hated young men. In cases where the cops involved were Hispanic I could have been suspicious that they hated me because I was white, but that would have been garbage and would have only stupidly inflamed a potentially very danderous situation (ANY situation involving two strangers, suspicion, and at least one loaded gun is a dangerous situation requiring all parties to act reasonably).
So they can see what its like to be surrounded by millions of people who insist you have no right to exist, are some low form of animal, and should be driven into the sea and massacred. Perhaps the Palestinians should see what its like to be told that they cannot visit the one Holy site of their religion which has been taken over by somebody who hates them and goes on murderous riots if they TRY to visit it. It would be like Jews controlling the Temple Mount, Mecha, AND Medina and rioting and killing people if even ONE Muslim attempted to visit any of those sites. Perhaps the Palestinians could learn what its like to be surrounded by millions of people in multiple nations who hate hate their race, hate their religion, have ganged-up and gone to war against them multiple times to try to wipe them all out in ACTUAL genocide and who ALWAYS INTENTIONALLY TARGET CIVILIANS. They might learn what it's like to have to be constantly watching for people who are such extreme irrational hate-filled racists and supremacists that they will strap explosives to themselves and blow themselves, and anybody in the vicinity, to bits at any moment. This might come as quite a shock to a Palestinian who has spent his whole life facing an enemy that tries to avoid killing civilians. Perhaps the Palestinian might learn what it's like to live in a non-Muslim democratic land where citizens of all ethnicities and religions have rights, as opposed to all the Muslim countries where any non-Muslim is treated as an animal or a sub-human and even most Muslims do not have many rights.
Sorry, but I'm not Jewish and even I can see the complete insanity of all the leftist Palestinain-cause-hugging. The Palestinians HAD a chance in 1948 to go along with the UN multi-state solution (in a place where they would gain a Palestinian state which had NEVER previously existed) but they chose instead to align with that armies of all the neighboring arab/Muslim nations and go to war to try to eliminate the Jews. History teaches that when you choose to wage a war to wipe somebody else out and you lose, YOU LOSE. The Palestinians lost. If they want to assert some universal principle of a "right of return", then they are screwed because the Jews were there first and were driven off by the Romans - thus the Jewish "right of return" pre-dates any Palestinian claim and applies to ALL of ancient Israel (but the Palestinians conveniently hope the rest of the world does not think that through)
Even in my trolling posts on death camps and government conspiracies, I could never have thought up something as insane as this.
Reality has beaten my attempts at satire. I concede the contest, and yield the field to the victor.
He sees Asians doing "so well" and concludes that it must be some unfair racial advantage that is starting to backfire on them - so it is perfectly acceptable if they get deducted points for identifying as "Asian".
See... It's one of those "positive racial things"... Like all blacks having big cocks, all Asian women being sexy... Or was that Latinas? Indian women? Swedish? I get confused about that topic...
Anyway... It's not suffering but a GIFT OF NATURE.
Or Santa or whatever...
His cognitive dissonance is so deep in, he doesn't even realize that he's using an example of discrimination based on racial prejudice - as an example of how "well" a certain minority is doing.
"They are doing so well by simply being Asian, that schools are forced to discriminate against them."
See, if you're lucky enough to be born Asian - you're automagically gonna do SO WELL in school some handicaps will simply be fair, to make you more like everyone else.
I have this nagging feeling that he's also a fan of Harrison Bergeron, and that the irony of acceptable handicaps for perceived and prejudiced advantages is lost on him.
Cause apparently in his mind, it is "the system", not the people who make it, that is racist.
And there are "real racism" and "imaginary racism" and "pretend anti-racism" in that "system".
It's you know... like a plan. There are these rules about what is real, imaginary and pretend.
Secret rules of the "system". Which pretends about using one set of rules, but is actually using another.
A conspiracy, if you will.
But you gotta love that cognitive dissonance of his.
They do not, however, show any of the symptoms, for which the imaginary racism is usually blamed when failures of Blacks are discussed: they are not incarcerated disproportionally more often than others (heck, you can't even find them on the chart!) and their incomes aren't lower than those of Whites â" quite the opposite, in fact
"incarcerated disproportionally more often than others" is imaginary racism - because failures of Blacks.
When it's BLACK people who are "incarcerated disproportionally more often than others" - it is imaginary racism, cause Blacks SIMPLY ARE MORE PRONE TO CRIME.
It's their failure as a race.
And can't you see that it's actually the whites who are discriminated?
Just look at that median household income sorted by race - where "White Hispanics" are a part of white Americans group, and "Asians" are generalizing "Chinese", "Filipino", "Indian", "Vietnamese", "Korean", "Japanese" and "other Asians" into one group.
So, whites become poor cause Mexicans and Puerto Ricans and Cubans etc. (all well below the "white" median) are bunched together with Russians and Brits, while Asians become all rich due to immigrants in the tech industry and A MUCH SMALLER SAMPLE.
White Americans are 77.7% of population.
Asians are about 5%.
While "African Americans" are some arbitrary subset of Black Americans (12.6%) who identify themselves as such and not actually by the particular country or region of origin - like the way others do.
The bigger the sample the closer the median is to THE AVERAGE.
Whites are getting averaged out with Puerto Ricans and Iraqis, while Asians are showing a median between Indians on the top of the list (just above South Africans) and Bhutanese at the very bottom.
Meanwhile, "African Americans" don't get to be counted with Algerians, South Africans, Egyptians, Sierra Leonean Americans... who are ALL ABOVE "African Americans" on the list.
So, surprise-surprise, a sample ("whites") much closer to the size of the population ends up having a median ($ 54,857) very close to the median of the population ($ 51,914).
While small samples deviate significantly - Asians to the right of the population median ($68,088) due to high wages of Indians in IT, and "African Americans" end up deviating to the left of the curve ($ 35,341).
Note how the same thing happens to "Pacific Islands
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Do we get the big black cocks to go along with it?
No, I say nothing of the kind. I bring up the Asians' success in this still predominantly-White country as evidence, that the dominant race — the Whites — are not in fact racist. Or, if they are, it is not to the extent, that would explain the Blacks' high incarceration rates and low incomes.
No, it is not at all acceptable — you pulled words out of thin air and are trying to attribute them to me. I don't think, it is acceptable in the slightest — but it is nonetheless done by the very people, who pretend to "fight racism"...
You really are good with strawmen, aren't you? No, it is not because "Blacks are simply more prone to crime" — it is the people, who grew up fatherless, who are more prone to crime and are otherwise not right in the head. Whatever your race, not having a loving father when you grew up is a major handicap.
But blaming Whitey for the scandalous 67%-figure I quoted above is much harder, than accusing him of things unmeasurable and unverifiable.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
"Diverse society will fail" --Putnam.
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Wasn't that already done nearly 45 years ago, with the movie Watermelon Man?
If you're gonna do this do it for everyone. Including Latinos, Asian, Muslim and let's really try to end bigotry
They call it interracial porn
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