36 Replies to “The Dog That Isn’t Barking”

  1. A very smart cat with a rock solid sense of logic if you can call it a ‘sense’. So when do you think the left will start agitating to have Dilbert banned?

  2. It’s in the Ferguson report. It’s very solid evidence.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ferguson-report-and-right-jason-lee-steorts/

    “from October 2012 to October 2014, 11% of stopped black drivers were searched, whereas only 5% of stopped white drivers were searched.

    Despite being searched at higher rates, African Americans are 26% less likely to have contraband found on them than whites: 24% of searches of African Americans resulted in a contraband finding, whereas 30% of searches of whites resulted in a contraband finding. This disparity exists even after controlling for type of search conducted, whether a search incident to arrest, a consent search, or a search predicated on reasonable suspicion.”

    There’s more.

    1. It’s very solid evidence.

      Well, no. The report is clearly designed to begin and end with the conclusion that systemic racism is the cause, as opposed to other confounding factors. In particular, there’s no examination of the age or socioeconomic status of the drivers, or the neighborhoods they were stopped in. If you dress and act like a gangbanger or wigger, the cops are going to treat you more harshly. If you’re younger, the cops are going to treat you more harshly. If you’re driving around in a crack den neighbourhood, cops engaging in unlawful traffic stops are going to treat you more harshly than if you’re driving around in a middle class suburban neighbourhood.

      All of those things are correlated with race, but not caused by it.

      That the Ferguson police are deeply corrupt is apparent, but even given the confirmation bias inherent in the report, the differences in relative rates between races – 4 to 6 percentage points – is statistical noise.

        1. so the black higher crime rate is because they are searched more often…

          …if they would stop searching…I’m sure the black murder rate would go down

        2. Suggesting the use of multivariate statistical analysis is not grasping at straws. It’s sound analytical methodology in contrast to a univariate analysis which will always result in a “desired” outcome, wee “P-values” and all.

          A screw might look like a nail, but a screwdriver is a better tool to use than the hammer you seem to always carry.

        3. They mention that the rates remain the same even when they correct for other factors…but the one factor they didn’t correct for is socioeconomic status of the arrestee. It’s suspicious by its absence.

          And again, statistical significance matters.

        4. No, you’re the one who doesn’t get. If you analyze event through race filters, why be surprised with race-based conclusions? Other factors are simply ignored. Kind of like ignoring the sun to conclude it isn’t causing climate change.

          Or my favourite from my beloved Lotus Land. A study into why gas prices rose so quickly which doesn’t look at rising taxes with the obvious conclusion the government didn’t do it.

          How would any meaningful conclusions be drawn from such specious methodology?

    2. Want to see and understand systemic racism, go live in SE asia, or put on a skullcap and go to our friends the Saudis, or go to just about any damn place on earth either outside NA, Western Europe (well, the civilized parts of western europe).

      I don’t mean visit as a tourist, go live and work there. No, really, GO!

      Some people need a 2×4 across the head to wake up, you I think need a redwood.

  3. This is my first time posting on SDA…

    UNME, the National Review article is strictly about Ferguson–a city of 21,203 people that is 52.4% African American.

    A simple statistical analysis would show these numbers do not indicate systemic racism as they are not a credible sample size.

    This is not proof of systemic racism.

    1. “UnMe” is a shit-disturbing troll and likely a paid member of the 50 Cent Army. Best to ignore it.

    2. Agreed and welcome to SDA. Canada is not so fortunate, the Indian Act is systematic racism, there is no way around it. Liberals have formed the government for about 85% of Canada’s history and not one of those governments has done a damn thing to change it. The systematic racism in Canada is the result of and is perpetuated by the Liberal Party. Beyond ironic!

      1. It’s interesting that the Indians defined in the act chose systematic racism when Trudeau-the-first suggested scrapping the whole thing Chretien’s 1969 white paper. They realized that as distasteful as the Indian Act was it provided them a unique group status under the law that would disappear if they became equal to all other Canadians. It’s still one of the bigger stumbling blocks in reforming the Act.

    3. Welcome, please be advised that UnMedicated does not argue in good faith. He/She/It is a professional demagogue who pretends to be a libertarian while consistently taking liberal positions and blaming the right for it. It is ok to insult or mock him/her/it but rational arguments are a waste of time.

  4. So in other words, it’s twisting in the wind with fake stats conjured up by the worst and most corrupt AG in U.S. history. Too funny…the clown thinks that a leftists comments on a leftist report that is so full of holes it looks like Swiss cheese is proof of “systemic racism” is just hilarious. As the Marxist who wrote the piece in the National Review, I would suspect the piece was put in there just for comic relief to show the mobius strip “logic”. By the way, the other name for the “Ferguson Report” is “Holder’s Hatchet Job”.

    1. It’s so full of holes that you can’t actually name any, or provide proof that the stats are ‘fake’. Pathetic

  5. Mr Teach, I fully agree, and I simply skip his posts now. As to Seaver 41, Welcome to the circus, you will find many many intelligent and thoughtful remarks at this site.

  6. When I last showed up in Court to fight the ticket given to me for not coming to a full and complete stop at a stop sign, with no other car present on a rural intersection … I became aware of a shocking systemic bias. Zip code bias. My case was heard LAST. I sat through at least 50 cases, where each and every scofflaw begged poverty, ignorance, and hardship. Each and every case was given extended time to pay, or a discounted fine, or completely dismissed. When it came to me, the Judge cut-off my presentation, and demanded the full fine. I asked for time to pay as it was a hardship for me, and the Judge laughed (along with the arresting officer) and said “no”. I was the first and only “no” he had said all day.

    I moved into my zip code long ago. Long before it took a deep six-figure income to afford a starter house in my zip code. But the Judge’s systemic bias simply saw me as a FULL paycheck for the government. Now THATS the real systemic bias. If the government believes you are “rich” … then you’re fkcued! Taxes, fees, fines … you name it.

    1. Kenji that actually wouldn’t meet Adam’s definition either. Systemic = system like Jim Crow laws or the constitution except there isn’t Jim Crow any more. There is affirmative action and that is codified into a system that reverse discriminates but that’s so far the only example of systemic discrimination presented and accepted and it doesn’t fit the narrative or answer the question on point. Individual judges that are biased are not a system. They can be replaced and are cogs so by definition not a system. I’ve always felt that people should start with definitions or we talk past each other. Adams actually does define exactly what system means. It does go to the heart of how we are being beaten with a lot of fluffy feelings hand waving. That said if you start with his definitions of system (even if you plan to disagree or expand the definition) you may or may not be able to find a fit with a pattern of discrimination but you have no chance with an argument if you don’t start from the definition.

  7. If there was systemic racism against blacks in US then black immigrants would do worse than other immigrants. They don’t.

  8. If something is systemic and not an individual acting on their own initiative, then there should be some direction coming to the individual that they act regardless of their personal opinion.
    When the word racist is deemed so evil that none feels safe with even a suggestion that they committed that cardinal sin, any direction would be called out immediately. Strangely it has not.
    The bs about it’s hidden or unintentional, that’s not racism, that would be ignorance, which is the opposite of wisdom.
    Mr Adams is probably correct in his effort to demonstrate the lack of supporting evidence, that there isn’t anything that proves a systemic problem exists. Specifically, there is no denying a problem exists, the doubt is the claim of a collective issue.
    When something is generalized it depersonalizes the issue and makes it the fault of the “other”. If it’s maintained as individuals being racist, then it keeps the issue as a matter of bad character.
    You know, character, the quality that someone once wished that people where judged by instead of the collective they got lumped into.

  9. There is systemic racism alive an well in the democrat party. Even their mentally diminished leader, Sleepy Joe has declared himself racist by refusing to appoint a white man or woman to run as his Veep.

    The Democrat Party is drenched in racism. The never shut up about it … yet they are the KKK and they are Jim Crow, they are the communists.

    One of their key features is denial. But their main program is electrifying level of hatred toward the half of fellow Americans who happen to prefer Capitalism and freedom over communism and slavery.

    Did I mention that the Democrats are the part of slavery … they wore the grey uniforms in the Civil war.

  10. What are some examples of things that are systemic? I get systematic. If racism was still systematic, then the wharf in Charleston South Carolina would look a whole lot different today. That’s been remedied.

    What’s the remedy for systemic racism?

    1. there is none, because it is the vehicle where by Marxism/communism is being advanced in North America. Only the very, very stupid are unable to see that. That would include all the black people who think they are really, really smart.

  11. Quaker Oats: we’re fighting systemic racism by scrubbing black people off our products and killing the Aunt Jemima brand because 2020!

  12. No examples? I posted one example on the comments on his video on YouTube: Affirmative Action.

  13. Well unme you have finally been exposed as a chinaman troll paid by the CCP to spread lies and sow discourse to try and shift the blame from the Chinese unleashing the covid virus on the world and flooding the west with fentanyl. Well it isn’t working on this forum so pick one of the unhinged leftt forums to spew your venom.

  14. Harvard blatantly discriminates against Asians, they’ve been called out on it and refuse to stop.

    Harvard continues to receive government funding.

    I have not been following Adams’ thread here, but systematic or systemic, it’s racist.

  15. 1) United Negro College Fund

    2) Miss Black America beauty pagent

    3) Black Lives Matter “movement”

    4) Congressional Black Congress

    5) Black Panther Party

    6) Affirmative Action quotas

    (captcha “buses” fgs)

  16. Definitions:

    Systemic Racism:  – An acquired condition resulting from repeated exposure to vioIence, theft ,Iooting, constant whining, and expectations of speciaI treatment based upon the skin coIour of members within certain communities who struggIe to find reasons to justify seIf infIicted poverty and ignorance to excuse criminaI behaviour.
      Systematic racism can sometimes Iead to the over reaction of PoIice Forces when deaIing with members of the ethnic community which caused the condition in the first pIace. 
    This condition is usuaIIy the resuIt of “progressive” poIicies that teach peopIe the Government is responsibIe for putting food on your tabIe and paying your biIIs; whiIe curiousIy hoIding the same Government at fauIt for you not having what you think you deserve regardIess of the effort you DO NOT put into it.

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