Re: Social Engineering (was: Different patriarchy Model)
Bob Casanova (cas@ops1.bwi.wec.com)
Wed, 11 Jan 1995 20:07:50 GMT
In article <D27IvK.8p0@freenet.carleton.ca> ay773@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Ray Sullivan) writes:
>From: ay773@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Ray Sullivan)
>Subject: Re: Social Engineering (was: Different patriarchy Model)
>Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:42:56 GMT
>In a previous posting, Gerold Firl (geroldf@sdd.hp.com) writes:
>> I'm puzzled as to how this implication was transmitted. I was noting that
>> afro-american culture has been comparitively unsuccessful at socialising
>> its members in such a way as to avoid incarceration. Most people agree that
>> the slammer is no fun; I don't think I'm being particularly ethnocentric by
>> using criminality as a measure of social disfunction. Do you disagree?
>I have observed that euro-american culture has been comparitively
>unsuccessful at socialising its members in such a way as to avoid the
>tendancy to arrest and incarcerate afro-americans.
Nice flame. Anything rational to contribute?
Please consider that
>the power to "socialize" avoidance of incarceration is much less powerful
>than the power to "socialize" racial stereotypes.
How about the power to socialize behavior in such a way as to minimize the
asocial actions leading to incarceration, which is (I believe) the gist of
Gerold's post?
>[...]
>> part of american culture. They will develop solutions to their problems. But
> ^^^^^^^
>I am of the opinion that racial bias in the judicial system is everybody's
>problem.
Can you provide any evidence supporting the charge of racial bias in the
judicial system? (Differential incarceration rates are _not_ necessarily
evidence of bias. They _are_ evidence of something, but without other data we
can't know what they _are_ evidence of.)
>--
>_________________R. Sullivan, ay773@freenet.carleton.ca_________________
>Out of life, comes death and out of death life, out of the young the old,
>and out of the old, the young, out of waking, sleep and out of sleep
>waking, the stream of creation and dissolution never stops. (Heraclitus)
Bob C.
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