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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-04-10 04:08 PM
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203. "But, honestly, racism is not as prevalent." I'd ask for data to
support this claim but for every bit you find, I can find sources to dispute it. Questions of this nature are difficult to answer using standard techniques of observation and analysis. Scholarly and expert opinions remain divided on the question of discrimination and/or racism, but you managed to arrive at a simplistic definitive answer and reduced the complexity of this question AND answer to one simple formula. Wow! They need you at the Pentagon.

Social psychologists have extensively documented distortions that take place when race is involved in the course of reasoned evaluations. Evaluations regarding employment, salary, social status, education, etc. Economists and sociologists have challenged the notion that intellect, ethics, criminality and social disposition continue to frame these evaluations in social situations. The philosophical discrepancies are apparent.

How did you determine how many racists people are in this country? You stated there are not the same number today as in, say, 1950. Do you have the data or statistics to support that claim? I assume you've done extensive field studies to that effect. If not, you're just talking out of your ass, to put it mildly.

Therefore, until you're proven an authority on this subject, I've concluded that yours is just another subjective pov.
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