More Comments About Today + The Definition of Prejudice

 

I saw a woman on a bicycle gesture to touch her ear.  I think it meant, "earring failure," as in for the music video to "The World Is Not Enough" by Garbage, or maybe "ear failure," as in, someone is failing to understand that they need to get your ear.  I am not failing to listen to people who make a serious effort to communicate with me.  AFAIK, Johns Hopkins University Psychiatry has made some effort to help me.  I can't be sure though.  I don't think Dr. Schwartz would gaslight me.  (I am no longer paranoid about Dr. Schwartz or psychologists/psychiatrists in general.  I think Dr. Fowler is imperfect but not evil...I don't like that he doesn't side against my parents but he says he "doesn't know."  Btw, I gave him the URL for this blog, but he said he might not read it if I didn't want him to.  But he might read it.)


Here's a comment about something else.  Do you know what racism is, mathematically?  More broadly, any kind of prejudice?  Here, let me explain it to you.


The world is full of statistics.  Some statistics are pleasant, and some are unpleasant.  Prejudice is defined as when you use a statistic to pre-judge someone without knowing them.  In other words, you are NOT ALLOWED to use statistics to analyze a person.  In particular, black people have higher rates of being incarcerated.  If you meet a new person who is black, you are *not* therefore allowed to assume that that person has a higher chance of being a criminal than someone who is white.


You MAY use information about people's demographics to assess their special needs.  E.g., for a black person, you MUST NOT stand idly by if someone at work tells the black person, "hey, come here, boy, I want you to do this work for me."  Treating black people as though they are enslaved, or even hinting at the history of slavery and how black people suffered through it in an inappropriate manner are forbidden, and blacks have a "special need" to not be treated that way, and, to be defended if they are mistreated.


I'm not even going to get started on disabled people, because the CIA is reading this and I don't want them to get too aroused or angry, they still have some power in today's world and we don't need them getting "dangerously angry."

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