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Corona season over? Riot season now?..not sure if I need a mask or a rifle.
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^ PS I am not white; I am Sikh and I have had to deal with my own share of racist attacks.
But what I am saying is advocating rights for one group of people while completely ignoring everyone itself is selfish and discriminatory.
What I don't understand is why people aren't advocating for better police training..
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The all-lives matter bit just minimizes the issue of racial inequality, and there's clearly an issue with that down in the US and even in Canada. It's pretty obvious some lives aren't valued the same as others. Dismissing race as unimportant because it's a social construct is also naive, because despite being a construct it has historically had significant impact upon society's around the world and continues to do so.
The same could be said of gender, gender and sex are different things. Sex refers to biological differences between males and females, such as genitals and genetic differences. Gender on the other hand is a social construct and is less easily defined. If you argue that all genders matter a lot of people are going to respond with bigotry though.
Also, using wikipedia as a source is pretty weak. Yes, whites make up a large chunk of the US prison system but they also make up a significantly larger chunk of the actual US population. It's much more nuanced than simply saying whites end up in prison more.
The US has the largest prison population in the world. This number will vary but this source is pretty recent. As of May 2019 the US imprisoned 655 people per 100,000. I'll even use a US source. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2019-05-13/10-countries-with-the-highest-incarceration-rates?fbclid=IwAR3mBzGtmZAb9kLqj9qpAsyymecuDV3pAZPtFdh7eccbaGQ-GSUjYkrDEws
A quick google search tells me that as of May 2019 the US had a population of roughly 328 million people. 655 imprisoned per 100,000 in a population of 328M makes for quite the prison population. Again, those numbers have likely changed.
Now here's the thing, minorities in the US make up a disproportionate chunk of inmates in and attached to the prison system based on how much of the American population they actually make up. I've even got a source for it with it's sources listed that involved actual research, unlike a wiki article anyone can edit. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/?fbclid=IwAR3yQgTBo4ZE5KW0XXG0yltZFd6C8ZzwbffOtcjqllOxPF7yTr3BrmZ35gE
The number has probably changed slightly, but as of 2016 1 in 55 U.S. adults (nearly 2 percent) was on probation or parole. That's a huge number. https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2018/09/probation-and-parole-systems-marked-by-high-stakes-missed-opportunities?fbclid=IwAR1qdHy8ZtfjqK7e6yzeBmJXDM_htiAUALh3gdC4bVQ3xtqAKtWwqL1tPnA
Why does that matter? Disenfranchisement, in this case it's the removal of one's right to vote. Being a convicted felon seriously impacts one's ability to vote, and how it impacts one's ability to vote and for how long varies from state to state and the legalities likely shift from time to time thanks to a number of reasons (who's in power in a state at any given time, public opinion, legal challenges, ect). https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-voting-rights.aspx?fbclid=IwAR1qdHy8ZtfjqK7e6yzeBmJXDM_htiAUALh3gdC4bVQ3xtqAKtWwqL1tPnA
Now, let's be real here, the US has historically been $&!#ty to minorities and those in power don't like giving up that power. In the US those in power can use the system in place to directly impact voting totals and who can and cannot vote. If you don't think those in power aren't also aware that they can directly impact the minority vote by charging them with felonies for reasons both legitimate and not I don't know what to tell ya.
Minorities in the US don't just have to contend with racism and all it entails, but with a system that can actively be utilized to suppress their vote. So come closer to election time, if you read that minorities in the US aren't voting it's not just because they're not interested (some won't be, a lot of people choose not to vote for various reasons) but likely because many of them simply aren't legally able to.