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A black person is far more likely to get harassed and shot by police than a white person

A black person is, in the US, about twice as likely to be arrested as a white person, and about twice as likely, once arrested, to die in police custody.

A man is, in the US, about three times as likely to be arrested as a woman, and about seven times as likely, once arrested, to die in police custody.

But activists do not speak of female privilege. They would, as far as I can tell, consider it acceptable to argue that men have this coming because they are more likely to commit crime (including violent crime) than women. They would take the arrest statistics as evidence of this, while taking the arrest statistics broken down by race as evidence of racial bias in the system. You say that black people are simply "more likely to be convicted" of crimes; I could point out that, while black people in the US are imprisoned at about 7 times the rate of white people, men are imprisoned at about 10 times the rate of women. So are men somehow just that much more culpable than women? The best figures available to me suggest that men represent perhaps in the low 60s percent of illicit drug users in the US, but they make up 81% of arrests, for both trafficking and possession. Is the picture different for the categories "men" and "black people"? Statistics on police shootouts demonstrate that the over-representation of both "men" and "black people" - and also "young adults", for that matter - among those shot by police is fairly neatly matched by the over-representation of those who shot police themselves.

You exhibit a hypocritical double standard, along with everyone else who makes these arguments.

(I can show you all the official government statistics for this, as well as all the necessary number-crunching, upon request.)

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