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cheesyboy said:
Because BLM is about the low tariff US society at large places on black lives, illustrated on a weekly basis by state (police) killings which simply shouldn't happen.

Black on Black killings are not directly symptomatic of a societal bias against people of colour. Whilst being black might mean they are statistically more likely to be caught up in gang killings, those killings don't happen just because they are black. Unlike the extra judicial killings at the hands of The Law, which are often rooted in the institutional mistrust of the black man.

Black lives matter isn't so called because they seek to save all black lives. It's mo-op is to level the playing field where white faces otherwise get better treatment (like being given a similar benefit of the doubt before being 'suicided by cop')
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It's not often I use this phrase in GD, but that is a great explanation with good reasoning. Good stuff cheeseface :)
 
cheesyboy said:
Because BLM is about the low tariff US society at large places on black lives, illustrated on a weekly basis by state (police) killings which simply shouldn't happen.

Black on Black killings are not directly symptomatic of a societal bias against people of colour. Whilst being black might mean they are statistically more likely to be caught up in gang killings, those killings don't happen just because they are black. Unlike the extra judicial killings at the hands of The Law, which are often rooted in the institutional mistrust of the black man.

Black lives matter isn't so called because they seek to save all black lives. It's mo-op is to level the playing field where white faces otherwise get better treatment (like being given a similar benefit of the doubt before being 'suicided by cop')
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The only actual study on the subject came up with the result that skin colour doesn't have a significant effect on whether or not a person is shot by the police in the USA. It has a huge effect on whether much attention is paid to the person being shot, but that's not the same thing at all. That's prevailing prejudices and political power. The "only "black" lives matter but only if they're deaths we can use to promote racism" movement has political power, but that doesn't mean it's right.

What does have a large effect is the things you dismiss, the things that also result in "black" people being statistically more likely to be shot by people other than cops. Awful neighbourhoods, mainly.

If people cared about statistics (even if they only cared about people being shot by the police) the movement would be "Male lives matter". There's a far stronger correlation between sex and being shot by the police in the USA than there is between "race" and being shot by the police in the USA.

Even if there wasn't and even if the police were the only people shooting people in the USA, a movement that's based on the idea that a person's life only matters if they are of the "right" "race" (or sex, or whatever) would still be wrong.
 
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sand_dune said:
Interesting info about fonts.

I got the bat price right, for the other 2 questions it's 5 minutes, then 47 days. how clever am I? Counting the pennies of my benefits money for many years helps to be astute lol.
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I also got them all right (and thought they were easy questions).

I think in my case it's down to how I was taught. More precisely, one lesson I was taught very often. Often enough to sink in, apparently. That lesson is "check your answer". My immediate answers were 10c, 100 minutes and something along the lines of "47 days...but maybe it's 24 and my initial answer is wrong", but I automatically checked my answers. Immediate answers are for when an immediate response is required. If it isn't, then I check my answer (and check that I've read the question properly - another very common source of error is skimming the question and answering a mistaken assumption about what the question is). It's clearest with any form of maths - feed your immediate answer into the question and see if it matches, e.g. 10+(10+100)=120, 120 != 110, therefore the ball can't be 10c.

I've been taught that since I was a toddler in the kiddy seat in a supermarket trolley. My mother used shopping to teach me mental arithmetic (show me the price of each item, I keep a running total) and taught me to use range checking as a crude check against simple errors. The beginnings of "check your answer".
 
Soundood said:
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is that too low to be in play
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