re: #264 Citizen K

Because of course. Because why should we expect anything different from a country that elected Trump, the high-king of racial grievance-mongering?

I’m honestly not that shocked that the belief exists. Humans are biased for anecdotal evidence rather than big picture statistical evidence. So when you see the local news lead with a story about a murder or a bank robbery, you think crime is going up even though the bigger picture is it’s going down.

John Q Whiteboy hears about his cousin’s niece’s roommate Janet getting passed over for a job and instead it goes to a [insert racial minority here], obviously it was discrimination. That’s the story that sticks with him, not all the statistical economic evidence that show that white people are doing better than minorities.