So is it OK to discount your arguments because you’re white and therefore your intent is dubious? And my arguments count for double because I’m white and arguing that black people are discriminated against! Looks like you have to present like 4x as much evidence to make your case…
I am, of course, being facetious.
You’re making an ad hominem argument, a literal, fallacious, ad hominem argument. Where the author is telling you 1) what data they looked at and 2) how they analysed that data, and that person’s data and analysis have been reviewed by her peers to confirm their validity, it’s absolutely fallacious to reject the study because the author is black.
My argument in this thread is only that black people on average are discriminated against by the criminal justice system.
I agree with this. But the codes are used by the federal sentencing guidelines, and they capture past crimes as well as behavior during incarceration.
Yes. The link you provided, which points to the abstract of the study, also has excerpts from other studies that cite that paper (keep scrolling down to the section labelled “citations”). The first citation listed criticizes the methodology of the paper, and does so in a way that it seems you would need to take issue with to maintain a consistent standard. Of course, we’ll see when we have the full study before us, but so far it looks flawed.
If you’re going to argue that doing X while being black is just more suspicious than doing X while not being black, it seems like you’re conceding the point.
Nor do I. As we’ve established, there are racial differences in e.g. the rate of 911 calls across neighborhoods. Races also differ greatly across many other demographic factors that are correlated with criminality, including wealth, education, family status, nutrition, etc. All of those should be expected to produce differences in the rate of police stops independent of race. But here we’re looking at studies that are trying to control for those differences and find an independent effect of race itself. If police interpret behavior as more or less suspicious solely based on race, that would strongly support that claim.