A Woke Thought Experiment
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@horace said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
I've seen two Down's syndrome people cast in 'normal' roles recently. One was cast as a grade school lunch room bully, in a role written as if he was a typical brute with an adolescent version of toxic masculinity. No reference or so much as a nod to the Downs syndrome. I can't remember what movie that was, but I recognized the casting intention to 'normalize' people like that. The second one was in a show called Loudermilk, where the guy with Down's plays a wise guy con man.
That just further proves the point, though. Blind actors play blind characters, no problem. Same with deaf actors, actors in wheelchairs, etc., etc. Why make Down's Syndrome actors appear differently? Because we have no idea what the hell we're doing in terms of treating them fairly.
The thing is, we aren't comparing social justice apples to social justice apples. We're comparing a social justice narrative to a social taboo, which I don't think the woke community has had to grapple with.
And anyway, I think taboo wins out. Fear of the unknown > scripted outrage.
@aqua-letifer said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
@horace said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
I've seen two Down's syndrome people cast in 'normal' roles recently. One was cast as a grade school lunch room bully, in a role written as if he was a typical brute with an adolescent version of toxic masculinity. No reference or so much as a nod to the Downs syndrome. I can't remember what movie that was, but I recognized the casting intention to 'normalize' people like that. The second one was in a show called Loudermilk, where the guy with Down's plays a wise guy con man.
That just further proves the point, though. Blind actors play blind characters, no problem. Same with deaf actors, actors in wheelchairs, etc., etc. Why make Down's Syndrome actors appear differently? Because we have no idea what the hell we're doing in terms of treating them fairly.
The thing is, we aren't comparing social justice apples to social justice apples. We're comparing a social justice narrative to a social taboo, which I don't think the woke community has had to grapple with.
And anyway, I think taboo wins out. Fear of the unknown > scripted outrage.
Here's the problem...BLM has nothing to do with social justice. The movement is inherently racist, because it seeks power; the power of supremacy. They don't want to be the equal of others or receive equal treatment. That's just a smokescreen.
There is nothing more important than them, for they are the top of the heap.
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@aqua-letifer said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
@horace said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
I've seen two Down's syndrome people cast in 'normal' roles recently. One was cast as a grade school lunch room bully, in a role written as if he was a typical brute with an adolescent version of toxic masculinity. No reference or so much as a nod to the Downs syndrome. I can't remember what movie that was, but I recognized the casting intention to 'normalize' people like that. The second one was in a show called Loudermilk, where the guy with Down's plays a wise guy con man.
That just further proves the point, though. Blind actors play blind characters, no problem. Same with deaf actors, actors in wheelchairs, etc., etc. Why make Down's Syndrome actors appear differently? Because we have no idea what the hell we're doing in terms of treating them fairly.
The thing is, we aren't comparing social justice apples to social justice apples. We're comparing a social justice narrative to a social taboo, which I don't think the woke community has had to grapple with.
And anyway, I think taboo wins out. Fear of the unknown > scripted outrage.
Here's the problem...BLM has nothing to do with social justice. The movement is inherently racist, because it seeks power; the power of supremacy. They don't want to be the equal of others or receive equal treatment. That's just a smokescreen.
There is nothing more important than them, for they are the top of the heap.
@jolly said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
Here's the problem...BLM has nothing to do with social justice. The movement is inherently racist, because it seeks power; the power of supremacy. They don't want to be the equal of others or receive equal treatment. That's just a smokescreen.
There is nothing more important than them, for they are the top of the heap.Right, but you can't go around saying that shit. I think there's a way to call that out by making it obvious what their position actually is.
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@jon-nyc said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
@axtremus said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
No, the BLM movement stems from disproportionately more black people getting killed by law enforcement.
Proportionate to what?
I think this is what Ax is referring to.
https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/1417426/unarmed-black-people-killed-police-blm/
Of the 765 people killed by police in 2020, 28 percent of them have been black people - despite comprising only 13 percent of the US population.
Which conveniently ignores this
Writing for The Wall Street Journal last year, she asserted that the rate of black suspects shot fatally by the police is “a function of” how often they commit crime. Because they commit the majority of crime, they therefore have the most dealings with the police.
“In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit[ed] about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population,” she wrote.
Yet of the 996 fatal police shootings in 2018, only 209, or 21 percent, involved black suspects, meaning, according to Mac Donald, that the share of black suspects shot by the police was in fact “less than what the black crime rate would predict.”
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@jon-nyc said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
That was my point.
Sovereign is he who sets the null hypothesis.
Hypothesis is a funny word for an ever-changing position that is exactly as quantifiable as it needs to be at any moment, to support pop cultural messaging around a pre-ordained conclusion that "everybody who doesn't vote left is racist".
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In this case the null hypothesis I'm referring to has been pretty stable - that police interactions should be expected to be proportional to population percentages not weighted by levels of criminality. Same hypothesis is getting traction with school discipline too.
You were warned.
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In this case the null hypothesis I'm referring to has been pretty stable - that police interactions should be expected to be proportional to population percentages not weighted by levels of criminality. Same hypothesis is getting traction with school discipline too.
@jon-nyc said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
In this case the null hypothesis I'm referring to has been pretty stable - that police interactions should be expected to be proportional to population percentages not weighted by levels of criminality. Same hypothesis is getting traction with school discipline too.
Sure, equal outcomes for all groups will be a safely stable goal, which will indicate the necessity for progressive politics for the lifetimes of everybody alive today, and long thereafter.
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"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL HALF LIVES MATTER."
Radioactive, baby!
"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL FLETCH LIVES MATTERS."
I saw that thing sitting in Blockbuster so many times, and I never, ever borrowed it.
Go ahead, cancel my subscription.
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"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL HALF LIVES MATTER."
Radioactive, baby!
"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL FLETCH LIVES MATTERS."
I saw that thing sitting in Blockbuster so many times, and I never, ever borrowed it.
Go ahead, cancel my subscription.
@doctor-phibes said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL HALF LIVES MATTER."
Make it black half-lives.
Then we can apply Zeno's paradox and declare progress impossible.
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@doctor-phibes said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL HALF LIVES MATTER."
Make it black half-lives.
Then we can apply Zeno's paradox and declare progress impossible.
@jon-nyc said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
@doctor-phibes said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL HALF LIVES MATTER."
Make it black half-lives.
Black body radiation?
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@jon-nyc said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
@doctor-phibes said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL HALF LIVES MATTER."
Make it black half-lives.
Black body radiation?
@doctor-phibes said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
@jon-nyc said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
@doctor-phibes said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
"BLACK LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL HALF LIVES MATTER."
Make it black half-lives.
Black body radiation?
It's interesting to me that we live in an era in which this could be considered so racist that it could put someone on some sort of list.
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When I hear someone say, "there's nothing I hate more than sexism and injustice," I know there's a very high chance that person has a dearth of real problems, including dealing with sexism and injustice.
Please love yourself.
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In this case the null hypothesis I'm referring to has been pretty stable - that police interactions should be expected to be proportional to population percentages not weighted by levels of criminality. Same hypothesis is getting traction with school discipline too.
@jon-nyc said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
In this case the null hypothesis I'm referring to has been pretty stable - that police interactions should be expected to be proportional to population percentages not weighted by levels of criminality. Same hypothesis is getting traction with school discipline too.
There is probably an equivalent somewhere in the eviction narrative. I’ve read an article somewhere about “black and brown people” getting evicted at a higher rate, but that article says nothing about whether there is any correlation to falling behind on rent or mortgage payments.
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When I hear someone say, "there's nothing I hate more than sexism and injustice," I know there's a very high chance that person has a dearth of real problems, including dealing with sexism and injustice.
@aqua-letifer said in A Woke Thought Experiment:
When I hear someone say, "there's nothing I hate more than sexism and injustice," I know there's a very high chance that person has a dearth of real problems, including dealing with sexism and injustice.
Once heard a girl say “I hate southerners. They are so prejudiced!”
