This is a useful counterfactual in general. E.g. what would the likely outcome have been if those involved in the events of January 6 had been black?Yeah the racial significance is entirely hypothetical, it seems, which isn't to say entirely irrelevant. I.e. if a black kid did what Rittenhouse did, play by play, would the verdict be the same?
I think if a black kid had done it then there's a good chance it wouldn't even have made it to trial as the police might well have shot him.Yeah the racial significance is entirely hypothetical, it seems, which isn't to say entirely irrelevant. I.e. if a black kid did what Rittenhouse did, play by play, would the verdict be the same?
Also it was at a Black Lives Matter event wasn't it? Which is probably why people tended to assume the victims were black.Yeah the racial significance is entirely hypothetical, it seems, which isn't to say entirely irrelevant. I.e. if a black kid did what Rittenhouse did, play by play, would the verdict be the same?
This is an impression you've gotten thousands of miles away via news and social media coverage, which is grounded in no personal experience and I imagine, no real statistical investigation.I think if a black kid had done it then there's a good chance it wouldn't even have made it to trial as the police might well have shot him.
True, but, in this particular instance, I think if the police at a BLM protest in response to a police shooting got word that a black guy was running around with an AR-15 style rifle and had already shot three people then they would be more inclined to shoot him than they were Rittenhouse.This is an impression you've gotten thousands of miles away via news and social media coverage, which is grounded in no personal experience and I imagine, no real statistical investigation.
The existing claims of injustice are also premised on statistics.statistics will never be able to prove anything
That sounds intuitively right to me but I don't trust an intuition formed purely on news coverage, which is an engine of selection bias.True, but, in this particular instance, I think if the police at a BLM protest in response to a police shooting got word that a black guy was running around with an assault rifle and had already shot three people then they would be more inclined to shoot him than they were Rittenhouse.
I literally get tagged and baited repeatedly in these threads by foreigners spouting half-coherent taglines picked up from NYT and Guardian headlines. There's all the motivation you need buddywhat interests me is never the statistics or the rights and wrongs of any argument but who gets hot under the collar and what it is that upsets them. im always more interested in eg what's motivating Gus in these kinds of conversations. (of course we all assume hes a white supremacist)
dont listen to him version hes always talking shit about you behind your back(Version I don't mean you buddy never mean you)
You're a dirty barbarian. Ba ba ba. Ba Barbara Annwe're not foreigners
I love that I get away with it despite my first response being that this thread has you written all over it.(Version I don't mean you buddy never mean you)