No one is suggesting that 100% of the unfairness in life comes from racial disparities, but…
I’m not a racist, but…
until I see studies that show numbers like 50% fewer job call backs for less attractive people or 5 times the police violence toward short men
Ask and you shall receive!
Although the average callback rate was 30 percent, the researchers found pretty women and men to be more successful. Good-looking ladies had a return rate of 54 percent, and beautiful men had a rate of 47 percent.
The unattractive applicants were not as triumphant, especially the ladies. The callback rate for the less attractive applicants was 26 percent for men and 7 percent for women.
Timothy Judge, a business professor at the University of Florida,
calculated that each inch in height corresponds to $789 extra in pay each
year, even when gender, weight and age are taken into account. An extra
six inches, for example, results in an extra $4,734 in annual
income.
Regarding police violence, there is one group that has it even worse than black males.
People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement, according to a new study released today by the Treatment Advocacy Center.
Numbering fewer than 1 in 50 U.S. adults, individuals with untreated severe mental illness are involved in at least 1 in 4 and as many as half of all fatal police shootings, the study reports. Because of this prevalence, reducing encounters between on-duty law enforcement and individuals with the most severe psychiatric diseases may represent the single most immediate, practical strategy for reducing fatal police shootings in the United States, the authors conclude.
Do these links satisfy you? I expect they won’t. People (both conservatives and liberals) are remarkably resistant to data that contradicts their worldview.
I think it’s safe to consider this a lame excuse to do nothing about a serious problem.
I think it’s lame for you to falsely claim I advocate doing nothing when I actually said we should expand the scope.
If you can get someone who minimizes or dismisses the effect of racism or sexism, but has experienced height or attractiveness discrimination without realizing it to realize it, then you open the door to that person possibly understanding the impact of other types of discrimination that they have never experienced. You can make it real for them.