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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 October 2016 09:41:38PM 0 points [-]

Do you have a preferred source?

I use the Guardian as the source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database

We have implicit biases. Biases based on race are a pretty big deal in this country, historically. In my view, the level of bias in police shootings doesn't reach any reasonable threshold to be called anything like "racism" in many, many cases.

The academic notion of implicit racism isn't about any other threshold than statistical significance. The tool that they developed have gotten good at picking up effects in many people so the threshold is quite low and most people suffer from implicit racism.

If you reject that concept, then it doesn't make sense to see Hillary using it as progress.

What are your political leanings? I'd like to better understand our interaction by knowing how you view yourself generally on the U.S. political spectrum.

I'm not on the U.S. political spectrum. He Facebook political status is currently "Continental". My formal political associations put me left of center in Berlin.