So putting aside the humor aspect, what do you disagree with regarding the analogy I provided up above? Be specific.
No, I don't assume every situation that involves a minority group must therefore be racially motivated. We examine the details of the scenario and then, based on the stats that we have that are pertinent to the situation at hand, we make inferences and judge whether it was [probably] racially motivated or not.
And again, the kid was provoked into aggravation and he wasn't even physically violent. Seems to me like he was fighting back with words and standing up for himself. Hardly worth getting arrested for.
Would a white kid have been called out by the same teacher for not standing for the pledge? Possibly, but not likely. Would the same white kid, even if called out by that teacher, once aggravated into acting out, been treated the same way by the police? Probably not, as they would've probably tried to calm him down by showing him some understanding and maybe even acknowledging that he was being treated unfairly. Why do I suspect this? Because of various factors and based on what I've learned and observed in life.
Can a white kid be in a situation where he gets arrested by the police at school for unruly behavior? Of course. But we're talking about a specific context here, not just any random context.
To give an anecdote of my own, I've seen employees shushing Indian employees at work for speaking to each other inside the library (it's really a "quiet room" with computers but no books) but the same employees not shushing fellow white employees when they do start chatting each other. I've seen this enough times to suspect that, yep, there's race-based biases at play here. Do I know with 100% absolute certainty that this is so? No. But there's good reason to suspect so.
No, I don't assume every situation that involves a minority group must therefore be racially motivated. We examine the details of the scenario and then, based on the stats that we have that are pertinent to the situation at hand, we make inferences and judge whether it was [probably] racially motivated or not.
And again, the kid was provoked into aggravation and he wasn't even physically violent. Seems to me like he was fighting back with words and standing up for himself. Hardly worth getting arrested for.
Would a white kid have been called out by the same teacher for not standing for the pledge? Possibly, but not likely. Would the same white kid, even if called out by that teacher, once aggravated into acting out, been treated the same way by the police? Probably not, as they would've probably tried to calm him down by showing him some understanding and maybe even acknowledging that he was being treated unfairly. Why do I suspect this? Because of various factors and based on what I've learned and observed in life.
Can a white kid be in a situation where he gets arrested by the police at school for unruly behavior? Of course. But we're talking about a specific context here, not just any random context.
To give an anecdote of my own, I've seen employees shushing Indian employees at work for speaking to each other inside the library (it's really a "quiet room" with computers but no books) but the same employees not shushing fellow white employees when they do start chatting each other. I've seen this enough times to suspect that, yep, there's race-based biases at play here. Do I know with 100% absolute certainty that this is so? No. But there's good reason to suspect so.
