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jonoleth

@nick @ryanc @LaserMistress it's saying that white men are overrepresented.

I don't quite see where the confusion keeps coming from.

25 September at 7:40 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Nick replied to jonoleth

@jonoleth @ryanc @LaserMistress I don't think that's a very plausible interpretation. Whether or not that's true is going to be indexed to the location, and the statement in the meme is generalized. Not specific. The location isn't declared. It's not even clear it maps on to reality if that's what it's trying to say. So far as I can tell, either it's a work of fiction in its generalizability, or it entails a contradiction. This isn't the slam dunk defense you might be thinking it is.

25 September at 7:47 | Open on the-nutrivore.social
Nick replied to Nick

@jonoleth @ryanc @LaserMistress Like, it's not even clear that there is an overrepresentation phenomenon to any degree that is compatible with the meme. At least in the United States. Whites don't seem to be hired with any appreciably greater frequency than any other race, and are even worse off than some others. And the differences in unemployment can't account for the disparity seen in the meme (mind the Y axis scale btw). It seems like a fabrication.

bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-

@jonoleth @ryanc @LaserMistress Like, it's not even clear that there is an overrepresentation phenomenon to any degree that is compatible with the meme. At least in the United States. Whites don't seem to be hired with any appreciably greater frequency than any other race, and are even worse off than some others. And the differences in unemployment can't account for the disparity seen in the meme (mind the Y axis scale btw). It seems like a fabrication.
25 September at 7:58 | Open on the-nutrivore.social
jonoleth replied to Nick
Nick replied to jonoleth

@jonoleth @ryanc @LaserMistress Have I made some sort of error? If so, can you argue to that error? If so, what's the argument for the error?

25 September at 8:14 | Open on the-nutrivore.social
jonoleth replied to Nick

@nick @ryanc @LaserMistress you're trying to turn this into a debate by countering arguments that no one is making, and it's really weird

25 September at 8:24 | Open on mastodon.social
Nick replied to jonoleth

@jonoleth You literally told me what the argument was, and I countered it. Just take the L instead of doing these weak character attacks that just make you look like you're not tracking the conversation.
25 September at 8:28 | Open on the-nutrivore.social
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