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Originally Posted by Coldrsx
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"Overall, we rate Quillette Questionable based on the promotion of racial pseudoscience and the use of poor sources."
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/quillette/
as for this piece by coleman hughes, i read it to the end before responding but it didn't change my response.
coleman starts his second paragraph with "At the root of the unrest is the Black Lives Matter movement, which began with the acquittal of George Zimmerman in 2013 and rose to national prominence in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014." that's nonsense and he should know that - and so should you - although there is lots of rationalizing that statement after that statement.
the root of the unrest long predates blm and it continues to this day. blm may be a touchstone but blm is not the root. blm may not be the sole solution and its execution may be imperfect but to insist that blm is at the root of the unrest is deflection of the highest order.
even the studies he quotes are out of context (i've read them as well at various points in time) and beg the question being asked. for brevity, i'll just use the first one to summarize what i mean. in fryers' working paper, his introduction states that "On the most extreme use of force – officer involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account." that's because the underlying statistics are questionable - using police statistics when researching police behavior is not basing conclusions on impartial data. furthermore, not accounting for the cause of those "contextual factors" and assuming they are not based on racial inequality and prejudice will do nothing but hide the "root causes" of the very incidences and behaviors under discussion.
he did make one interesting comment at the beginning of his penultimate paragraph:
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The political Right has a role to play as well. For too long, “All Lives Matter” has been a slogan used only as a clapback to Black Lives Matter...".
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