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Reply | 🇺🇸Presidential debate round 1 - “Matchday thread”🇺🇸
at 15:34 6 Nov 2020
Dim's meltdown makes for thoroughly enjoyable reading.
America is one small step closer to being a progressive society that values all lives equally.
Back to the YouTube comments section for the likes of Dim and Kerouac. Licking their wounds with fellow conspiracy nuts and incels.
Congratulations, president Joe Biden! |
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Reply | Illegal immigrants moved to Penally army camp
at 13:33 23 Sep 2020
I do wonder what strategies the anti-immigration crowd propose for dealing with the collapse of fragile states that we created, plundered and invaded. |
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Reply | Biased policing
at 13:20 22 Sep 2020
I've absolutely no idea. The plaque was due to be changed but then, according to the article posted by Cats, the Merchant Venturers charity got involved and the new plaque was due to be "rewritten" and never appeared. |
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Reply | Biased policing
at 12:28 22 Sep 2020
No. I'm just asking Felixstowe if he thinks removing a different statue of a mass murderer is also criminal damage. |
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Reply | Biased policing
at 12:26 22 Sep 2020
There wasn't a city-wide referendum, Andy. Thousands went out of their way to sign the petition. |
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Reply | Biased policing
at 12:23 22 Sep 2020
Yes.
The double standard is that one protest was full of thick aggressive knuckle-draggers who refute basic science and endanger public health.
The other protests were largely peaceful and made provisions to ensure vulnerable people's lives weren't at an unnecessary risk.
Still struggling, Andy? |
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Reply | Biased policing
at 10:59 22 Sep 2020
Thousands of local people in Bristol signed a petition to get it removed or to have the plaque changed. The council ignored it. |
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Reply | Biased policing
at 18:43 21 Sep 2020
Do you think this is criminal damage, Felixstowe? [Post edited 21 Sep 2020 18:43]
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Reply | Biased policing
at 11:38 20 Sep 2020
BLM and XR encouraged mask-wearing, social distancing and respected the COVID guidelines while being largely peaceful.
The gathering of various conspiracy theory nutjobs actively endangered the lives of everyone at risk from COVID, because many of them believe it to be a hoax. No respect for the guidelines coupled with more violence.
Not hard to understand, unless you're a thick c*nt. |
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 14:35 21 Jul 2020
Study at Bristol Uni in 2008 found the 2.7x figure. I've mentioned it specifically in a last discussion, but you dismissed it as "waffle".
The discrimination is evident in most policy research, the latest is the Timpson review in 2019. Black Carribbean and Traveller children are consistently excluded at much higher rates than anyone else. [Post edited 21 Jul 2020 14:35]
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 14:20 21 Jul 2020
Your opinion is not invalid, it's just your opinion based solely on your own extremely limited experience.
I've provided data that shows discrimination based on skin colour is rife within the police, it also occurs in classrooms and courtrooms. This is robust evidence based on a large number of cases throughout the country, not just the case of Glossolalia.
Racism is measurable and it's quantifiable that's why people talk about its existence. It's pretty easy to see when you don't contort yourself around the reality that it exists. |
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 13:56 21 Jul 2020
You can add control variables to check the influence of things like the severity of the misbehaviour. It's been done and black kids were expelled at 2.7x the rate of others when the misbehaviour was the same.
In other words, do you think it's alright that a black kid is 2.7x as likely to be expelled for the same misbehaviour as another kid? Especially when you consider the link between expulsions and youth offending. |
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 12:32 21 Jul 2020
Nothing it's just about the strength of evidence when you make a claim of institutional racism.
Expulsions of black children at 3x the rate of others is a form of racism but it's not enough evidence to say schools are institutionally racist. There might be more evidence either way, I just haven't seen it.
Judges given custodial sentences at 1.6x the average is a form of racism but not enough evidence to say the judicial system is institutionally racist.
Arresting black people at hugely disproportionate rates across all crimes, particularly non violent crimes, along with stop and search, the Macpherson report, Cressida Dick and black people's ancedotal experiences with the police gives me the confidence to say the police are still institutionally racist. |
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 11:46 21 Jul 2020
I never claimed teachers were racist. I think the vast majority of individual teachers aren't racist. Nationwide statistics show a pattern of discrimination which is why the problem is institutional rather than individual.
The list of racists isn't getting bigger, it's getting smaller thanks to tireless campaigning. The same kind of campaigning that won black people the right to freedom, citizenship and employment opportunities. It's just now we've on from tackling outright race hate to more insidious problems. The problems are supported by data, if you have the ability to interpret it.
Do think it's a shame that you're not migrating to the new site even though I disagree with you on lots of things. Maybe it's for the best. You've already wasted enough time defending an unravelling clusterf*ck and it's only going to get worse. |
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 11:19 21 Jul 2020
Ah, right. We're at the absent black father trope now.
You clearly don't understand the statistics because you still haven't acknowledged why black people take drugs at 1.3x the rate of everyone else but get arrested for possession at 5x the average.
Rather than waffling platitudes, I'd prefer some cost effective and successful strategies for tackling knife crime. I'd prefer we didn't throw around custodial sentences for first time non-violent offenders and add to our huge prison population that we need to spend billions to maintain. I'd prefer we legalise certain drugs and address poverty, the two economic drivers of crime. |
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 08:22 21 Jul 2020
I'd strongly suggest doing some kind of maths qualification, HJ. I think key stage 3 level might be appropriate, especially after that discussion about the drug containers. |
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Reply | Erected in Bristol this morning
at 08:20 21 Jul 2020
You don't understand proportionality, like the others, you're reverting to more or less than which is so crude it's laughable.
In the case of drug offences you provided evidence to say black people are 1.3x as likely to use drugs but 5x as likely to be arrested. That's a massive disparity, did you know that before you posted your stats? You haven't addressed it since.
I've never claimed jurors were racist.
The difference in guilty pleas ranges from about 10% to 30% depending on the type of crime. Not a significant factor for our hideously skewed prison population.
You're not the majority and in 20 years you'll be even more of a minority. Young people don't think like you, generally they're better educated and more aware of these issues. Your lot don't do evidence based policy, because you can't interpret the evidence. |
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