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by amunozo 17 days ago
It is not anti-White racist, but facts. It is white abusing black, not the other way around. How can you have the skin so thin with something like this? For fuck sake.
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>Statistics suggest

>facts

Statistical inference is not established fact. I'm not defending parent comment above, but to be clear, it's not actually established as a fact that "Maria" was black, right? "Maria" isn't even her real name.

Correction as stated below: "Statistics suggest that Maria was undoubtedly poor and, most likely, Black."
It very explicitly guesses that she is black, based solely on statistical inference.

From TFA: "Statistics suggest that Maria was undoubtedly poor and, most likely, Black."

To read this as established fact is analogous to asserting as established fact that if you roll a six-sided die, you will certainly get a number <= 4. Probable, but not fact.

A careful read also reveals that none of the woman's actual identifying information was revealed, including her name, for her own privacy:

"We’ll call her Maria, the most common female name in Brazil, because authorities have not disclosed her real name in order to protect her identity."

Follow-up edit: thank you for your correction, I appreciate the epistemic humility and good-faith dialogue.

The family exploiting the woman was, in fact, white, independent of her skin colour.
Selective capitalisation of different races (white cf. Black) is a common dog whistle employed by anti-Whites.

Are you sure you want to start using statistical assumptions as "facts" in crime reports? That is going to backfire very badly for your disproportionately black offenders...

You mean like how you wrote "anti-White" and "black"? Ignorance and strong opinions is a bad combination.
Yes, exactly. It's racist when I do it, and it's racist when she does it too.
What an evil person. You sound so sad and desperate.
You are not in a healthy state of mind.
You would be the first to cry foul if an article included the following:

>The boy who had his bike stolen was White

>Statistics suggest that the thief was undoubtedly poor and, most likely, black