> For the first time in US history, white Americans are faced with the prospect of becoming a minority in their “own country.”
I was told this was a conspiracy theory??
> When a grand jury failed to indict a white cop who was videotaped choking a black man to death, black writer Brit Bennett captured this growing mistrust in an essay entitled, “I Don’t Know What to Do with Good White People”:
I'm sure the author will be delighted to learn that this happens to white people as well [1]. One would also assume the rate of being killed by police would be proportional to the crime rate, as every interaction with police carries some risk, and the rate of interaction with police is proportional to the crime rate. Of course we have to be careful when measuring "crime rate", as it's easy to fudge - a cop might let a white man off with a warning for jaywalking, but give a black man a fine. So you use something very difficult to fudge - the homicide rate. We find that despite blacks being 6.3x more likely than whites (including Latinos) to commit homicide [2], they're only 3.7x more likely to be killed by police (3.5x if only killings of unarmed are examined) [3]. I.e. whites are 67% more likely to be killed by police, per homicide committed, than blacks. The conclusion is inescapable - the police are actually anti-racist!
This is a very one-sided view of what this article is talking about. That there is systemic racism in the US is not up for debate. It's a fact. Even if your back of the envelope calculation there were correct, you have to ask yourself why there are more black people committing crimes. The reason isn't skin colour, but socio-economic factors which themselves are a result of a long history of oppression.
> We take our cues from what the buildings around us ‘speak about’. If they speak of grace and charm, kindness and light, our mood will be buoyant, if however they seem to threaten and intimidate us, we will feel humiliated and cowed.
I don't think this totally captures the problem with modern architecture. It's not that the buildings are threatening or intimidating, but that they convey no emotion at all - they're utterly sterile.
That's a false equivalence. At any point in this, there is little we can do to verify E2EE, but trust a 3rd party. We can trust that they enable it, or as previously proposed we can trust that they are visibly in the meetings and observing. Either way, we have no way to ensure this is true when dealing with 3rd party providers.
Your smart tv recording has nothing to do with this, but one does still need to trust that it isn't happening. In the case of the smart tv we can attempt to look for microphones or other components that are able to be used as microphones. Software offers a more difficult path in verification.
The Crusades were also a response to Arab invasions into Europe, during a time when Vienna, practically the center of Europe, was besieged twice by the Ottomans, and the entire Iberian peninsula was conquered and held for more than half a millennium by Muslims (and Constantinople/Istanbul still is). Many border countries had children regularly kidnapped into slavery by Ottoman raids (or had to turn them over as part of the blood tax), then turned into child soldiers and made to participate in those same raids, so try to understand when not everyone shares your black and white view of crusaders.
Look at it this way - complaining about the Crusades makes as much sense as complaining about Purim, which celebrates 75 thousand Persians being pre-emptively killed for being "enemies of the Jews".
The Ottomans existed centuries _after_ the crusades, timing the raids and the Vienna sieges after the crusaded. Does time work different where you life?
I was told this was a conspiracy theory??
> When a grand jury failed to indict a white cop who was videotaped choking a black man to death, black writer Brit Bennett captured this growing mistrust in an essay entitled, “I Don’t Know What to Do with Good White People”:
I'm sure the author will be delighted to learn that this happens to white people as well [1]. One would also assume the rate of being killed by police would be proportional to the crime rate, as every interaction with police carries some risk, and the rate of interaction with police is proportional to the crime rate. Of course we have to be careful when measuring "crime rate", as it's easy to fudge - a cop might let a white man off with a warning for jaywalking, but give a black man a fine. So you use something very difficult to fudge - the homicide rate. We find that despite blacks being 6.3x more likely than whites (including Latinos) to commit homicide [2], they're only 3.7x more likely to be killed by police (3.5x if only killings of unarmed are examined) [3]. I.e. whites are 67% more likely to be killed by police, per homicide committed, than blacks. The conclusion is inescapable - the police are actually anti-racist!
[1] https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/yo...
[2] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
[3] https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends