If nothing else this debate teaches how counter-productive collective nouns can be. I desperately want to avoid using POC because to me it just feels wrong, (as did African American) Everyone, with the exception of albinoes, have colour. Anyway, that's beside the point.
I think we really are going to have to agree to disagree. The simpliest explanation, with the least corrolaries, probably makes the most sense. That is the diametric opposite to my way of thinking.
To me there are any number of rationales, stereotypes, personal biases, quirks of circumstance which feed into a single decision and it is the combination of those which has an effect, not just one of those dominating and controlling for all the other variables. When you see that overall situations are a combination of those individual decisions, then the pattern of interaction is even more complex. Yes, that means race can be a contributing factor, but it is by no means the only or the most dominant one in operation. Just because there appears to be a pattern a) doesn't mean it is a significant pattern and b) most importantly, it doesn't automatically mean the pattern is caused by the most obvious variable.
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I think we really are going to have to agree to disagree. The simpliest explanation, with the least corrolaries, probably makes the most sense. That is the diametric opposite to my way of thinking.
To me there are any number of rationales, stereotypes, personal biases, quirks of circumstance which feed into a single decision and it is the combination of those which has an effect, not just one of those dominating and controlling for all the other variables. When you see that overall situations are a combination of those individual decisions, then the pattern of interaction is even more complex. Yes, that means race can be a contributing factor, but it is by no means the only or the most dominant one in operation. Just because there appears to be a pattern a) doesn't mean it is a significant pattern and b) most importantly, it doesn't automatically mean the pattern is caused by the most obvious variable.