Don't act dumb Utisz, we all know more blacks get stopped, especially in areas like London because whites are a minority there and their crimes and violence rates are exceedingly high. You can paint whatever distorted picture you want when you cherry pick stats like that.Utisz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:18 pmI think this is a very strong claim that I doubt is true.
While I don't know of specific evidence off-hand, Google leads me to some reliable-looking statistics (for the UK, from gov.uk websites) that to me constitute examples of evidence regarding structural racism in the UK:
- Stop and Search: "In the year ending March 2020, Individuals from a Black, Asian and minority ethnic background were stopped at a rate 4.1 times higher than those who were from a White ethnic group. This was similar to the previous year when the rate was 4.3 times higher." (direct quote)
- Ethnic Pay Gap: Data from 2019 shows that while some minorities earn more than White British, most minorities earn less than White British. The following are the pay gaps with respect to White British. The right-most columns are adjusted using regression for a variety of confounding factors (how many people from each group live in London, what are their occupations, are they married, what qualifications do they have, what is the median age of people in the group, etc.); in simpler terms, it is a statistical analysis that tries to remove all other factors that are not ethnicity:
We all have the same minimum wage, I need to take a deeper look at why those differences maybe, but I highly highly doubt it has anything to do with racism - these days being a minority comes with all sorts of perks.