Maybe for data that is used by politicians, I suppose. But I don't see the practical purpose, you know?

there is a practical purpose, but people don't wanna discuss it openly because its considered racist

its not something we prosicute on, like they dont just pull a random person off the street, but when you have a gang crime you look for a minority first until you have evidence telling you shouldent

thats just how it is

Now that I think about it, there's a few situations I can think of where race can be used

Like if a gang shooting happens

the only reason we know gang violence is related to race is because we compiled statistics for it, before that we only had intuition

I know, I get it

I just didn't consider all scenarios

obviously the usefulness for any amount of profiling has be known to law enforcement for a long time though which is why profiling and compiling statistics is a very old method of investigation

at this point we just record everything we imagine to be useful

if a white person is killed with a note left "death to white people" and the body is found in a minority dominate area, does it make sense to look at white people first?

well

i mean, if you find out the deceased knew an SJW who was white thats a bit different

but

i think hate crimes against white people while not new have the potental to have new cercomstances that might change how they are profiled

or not, certainly 10 years ago youd be looking for anyone but a white person

yeah

now when there is a supposed hate crime, you need to look at the group it was commited against first

given the number of hoax hate crimes

Democratic socialism is different from social democracy, right? From my understanding, one is about replacing capitalism, and the other is about reforming it.

lets face it, both are about replacing it

the only change is
"We're TAKING your money for others"

Is changed to

"We're GIVING your money to others"

yea

DSA is anti capitalist

wants to give means of production to workers

I've just wondered if people are mixing up their terms when they say "democratic socialism."

Are they against private property, for instance?

can't speak for the DSA, cuz i haven't looked into them

but any democratic socialist, or social democrat

Eventually ends up with wanting to redistribute means of production, which ends up negating private property

social democrat is like scandinavia

they want a capitalistic welfare state

remove the qualifiers

Social democrat is a certain kind of democrat

Democratic socialist is a certian kind of socialist

Democratic socialist is just below the center line to the far left

authoritarian socialist is top left

I can agree with that discription, although i will say that the social democrats are a slippery slope

in Europe for example, the labor parties are often "social democrats" and in order to buy votes they wanna increase the welfare state,
Which is a slope that slowly starts claiming more, until people just pay the majority they earn into taxes

and Norway i believe pays its welfare state with state oil

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/12511042313