@AThousandYoung saidSomebody read the OP. 🙂
Same crime, same place, same judge, same defense, vastly different outcomes for no clear reason.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidYou win 'Most stupid poster' in the thread.
just like all white people are the same to you? racist!
@Sleepyguy saidBut, apparently, in this country, we don't wanna talk about 'systemic racism'.
Each side screens the jury to best benefit their own client. That seems like a system designed to be fair to both sides, i.e. systemically fair, not systemically racist.
But it sure AF exists.
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@shavixmir saidActually more questions need to be asked on each thing listed to get accurate answers. She stopped short to get the desired answer same as wgrass does.
That’s actually a very accurate summary.
@Sleepyguy saidIn theory they do but in real life overworked underpaid government defense lawyers sometimes don’t make the effort.
Each side screens the jury to best benefit their own client. That seems like a system designed to be fair to both sides, i.e. systemically fair, not systemically racist.
Did these women have private defense lawyers?
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@vivify saidChina has its own form of “white privelage” in their beauty standards at least.
I mostly agree.
"Privilege" implies too many things. Whites in many countries have an advantage over minorities; but the same goes for any country run by the majority. Do we call it "Chinese privilege" in China?
Children born to rich parents are privileged. Whites born in America or Europe have an advantage. They are not the same things. Whites don't have it made ...[text shortened]... advantage through centuries of systemic oppression that still continues to this day, that's enough.
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@Mott-The-Hoople saidI have heard some Africans say its the fault of the white man for not giving them enough aid.
It’s still the white mans fault
@AThousandYoung saidPick an African country, pick the resource stolen and by which colonial power, pick the year or period of time and we will discuss the matter.
I’ve heard some Africans say it was the fault of the white man for taking all their gold and diamonds and oil and uranium etc
@AThousandYoung saidI dont need to ask anybody. I know enough to know that these stories are exaggerated and embellished, the real culprits are the corrupt local politicians and a stupid uneducated population. The colonial power, and large multinational corps go in and bribe the politician, and pay the locals a decent wage [by their standard] to get the job done. It is years and decades after the locals realise the value of their resources, but it is their stupidity that led to poor decisions. In any event, the locals do not have the expertise neither the capital to successfully exploit their resources.
You’ll have to talk to “some Africans” about that.
@AThousandYoung saidTurns out the Black one had a public defender and the white one had a private lawyer.
In theory they do but in real life overworked underpaid government defense lawyers sometimes don’t make the effort.
Did these women have private defense lawyers?
That would explain the results. Classism not racism.
@AThousandYoung saidIndia does too. Higher castes are lighter skinned. Indian women fund a large skin bleaching product industry.
China has its own form of “white privelage” in their beauty standards at least.
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