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Perhaps we could use a new word "blackstealing" for describing when a black person steals something from a white person.
I assure you that I am fully aware that sometimes also black people steal from black people, or white people from black people, or white people from white people, etc... but that is irrelevant here, because those acts just don't have the same qualia. Blackstealing is a specific phenomenon and deserves its name in our discourse.
(To avoid misunderstanding, this comment is not meant seriously, it just serves to illustrate the offensiveness of "mansplaining". I just had to use an analogy, because offending men is not considered an offense.)
(More meta: This comment is probably just another example of mansplaining. It would have to be written by a woman to deserve a serious thought.)
Nice try, but "black crime" (see 1st paragraph) is actually a thing that people study.
Now, if you wanted it to mean specifically racially motivated stealing, there's that too:
Oh well.
It is a pity your satire fell flat.
EDIT: Also, regarding:
"Qualia"? Goals, motivations, and revealed preferences (that is, the things that separate "explaining" from "mansplaining" and from "splaning" in general) aren't qualia.
And because base rates are important, according to the CIA factbook, the US is