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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I mean, I'm wading into a minefield here, but you've just posited a 10% chance that a black person would be discriminated against in a hiring scenario.
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Try re-reading that. I posited that 10% of Canadians might be racist. I have no idea what the actual odds are of someone being discriminated against in a hiring scenario, especially accounting for the various screening programs corporations employ now, etc. It was just a very basic example. I wouldn't get too caught up in it.
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But probably more importantly, the connection between this and
propensity for crime seems... tenuous.
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Well I never suggested a connection to crime, just a connection to systemic racism, but if we assume that people in lower-income classes tend to commit more crimes (which seems to be backed up by various statistics), and assume that discriminatory hiring policies could be a reason (I'm speaking hypothetically here) why minorities are over-represented at lower-income levels then you could make that connection. The example really wasn't meant to be taken as literal as you took it.