White racism is dead, part 1: introduction
Jul 30th, 2011 by Unamused
In the United States of America, there is no longer any systemic racial discrimination by white people against non-whites. White racism, so defined, is dead.
Systemic racial discrimination against white people, on the other hand, has never been worse. In the past two months alone, Unamusement Park has documented the problem here, here, here, here, in this series, here, here, in this series, in this series, and here, among other places. But anti-white racism is not the subject of this article.
How do we know that white racism is dead? Well, how in general do we establish non-existence? It is no great philosophical conundrum: to establish that some X does not exist, work backwards from the implications of its existence. What proposition Y is certain to be false if X exists? If Y is observed to be true, then X certainly does not exist, by modus tollens (MathWorld).
Certainties are hard to come by, so what proposition Y is unlikely to be true if X exists, but likely to be true if it does not exist? If Y is observed to be true, then X is less likely to exist, according to Bayes’ Theorem (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, MathWorld). If, by repeated applications of the theorem, a proposition has been shown to be sufficiently unlikely, then it has been effectively (or practically) disproved.
So how do we know that white racism, in particular, no longer exists? By working backwards from the implications of its existence, asking: what is unlikely to be true if white racism exists, likely to be true if it does not exist, and demonstrably true? This constitutes our evidence.
For the remainder of this series, we will enumerate that evidence. By repeated use of Bayes’ Theorem, we will exorcise the specter of white racism from one aspect of contemporary American society after another, until finally there is no place left for it to hide.
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I do enjoy a nice slutty faerie.
What?
Merrily diverse multiracial gang of six cops beat a 135-lb. unarmed schizophrenic homeless white man to death:
http://www.fullertonsfuture.org/2011/go-home-or-go-to-jail/
Reason.com’s coverage:
http://reason.com/blog/2011/07/29/homeless-man-dies-after-being
Man, did you examine all those trees around her??? Just bursting with more slutty faeries! WIN
If White racism existed, then we would expect to see a greater incidence per capita of crimes inflicted on NAMs by non-Hispanic Whites.
If White racism existed, we would expect to see Whites with identical credentials and IQ levels paid more than NAMs with the same credentials and IQ levels.
If White racism existed, we would expect to see it more difficult for a NAM with an SAT of X to get into various colleges than a White with the same SAT of X.
More forest faeries please. Slutty preferable but not required.
What we’d expect from the media:
If White racism existed, we would expect to see the media to be emphasising race whenever white people achieve something or do something slightly good, and downplaying race whenever white people do something bad.
We would expect the media to emphasise race whenever black people do something bad, and downplay or not mention race whenever black people achieve something good. We would expect less coverage of achievements of black people than when there is the same level of achievement by white people.
We would expect the media to publish most statistics or scientific research that shows white people in a favourable light, but not those that show white people in a bad light.
We would expect media to excuse the behaviour of white people behaving badly, while not excusing the same behaviour in black people.
We would expect the media to credit black people’s success to white people, while blaming black people’s failures on black people.
Here’s what we’d expect from reality:
We’d expect the success of black people to be inversely proportional to their contact and involvement with white people. (ie More contact with white people = less success for black people)
We’d expect black people to achieve less in the United States than they achieve in black countries such as Africa or Haiti.
We’d expect the government to spend less on black people than it does on white people.
We’d expect accusations of racism against black people to be ignored, and racism against white people to be punished.
Those are all good points, but I chose an unconventional approach, starting with the absence of evidence for white racism. That is, I’m first going to debunk all the supposed positive evidence.
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Uh, actually, Justin, I didn’t notice the other slutty faeries until you pointed them out. “WIN” indeed.
I think I may enjoy this series but be careful playing with a powerful spell like Bayes’ theorem, its worshippers will be most unkind if they think you are abusing it. Spergs are relentless and you can not kill that which has no life. Also do you have a contact email?
Math and reason up before approaching it this way. But if you pull this off it will be pure win.
unamusementpark (at) gmail (dot) com, RK.
As for these asparaguses, like President Bush, I say bring ‘em on. I am using very little math; it is enough that observing Y makes X less likely (X and Y defined above), which follows easily from the theorem. The only remaining question is, by how much, and that is practically unanswerable. Therefore the reader must judge for herself: is it still reasonable to believe in white racism, given these unreasonable events (which I haven’t given yet)? Those who are willing to be convinced by evidence will be, by mine; those who are not, will not, by any.
[copied and pasted article about the recent murder of a black man in Mississippi
re-read, please: systemic white racism. one murder is not statistically significant, nor does it justify any of the things "white racism" is supposed to justify]