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Originally Posted by FoldnDark
Links to empirical evidence that the job market is racially discriminatory?
This is how it begins.
1) Conservative asks for evidence of discrimination
2) Leftist puts forward graph or chart displaying a demographic disparity - for instance, fewer women or minorities being in certain positions of power
3) Conservative argues that this alone doesn't provide evidence of discrimination. Sure, this disparity
might be caused by discrimination, or it might be caused by something else, but the disparity alone doesn't mean that discrimination was the only thing that could account for it.
4) Leftist argues that if discrimination isn't the answer to why a lower percentage of black people pass whatever exam or a higher percentage of black people are in jail, then the only explanation would be that they are less intelligent/more criminally inclined by their nature. Therefore, to argue that disparities in demographic distribution aren't evidence of discrimination is
by its very nature racist.