Wanting to raise a kid the same ethnicity as you isn't racist. Rejecting a child who is your genetic child because they don't 100% share you ethnicity is racist.

How much preparation and warning does a white person need to take care of a black child? Further, what does that mean about what white people think of us.

Gross.

Right. So, I get the concern. It's a slippery slope argument. If they messed up one thing, how do I know they won't mix up something else. But here's the problem with that:

You have to prove an injury, though. You can sue because they made a mistake but you'll get like a dollar in nominal damages because your "injury" is that your daughter is black. You don't get to add hypothetical damages into a complaint and sue on behalf of people who COULD be injured.

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My favorite part of this article is that in general, white people don't believe "race is important" or that we should live in a "colorblind" society. That is, until they have a black kid. Then all of the sudden race is super important.

Uhhhhh, sperm banks do pretty rigorous screening with donations to try and eliminate a number of genetic issues and predispositions to illnesses. You should look it up, they're kind of exclusive. But she isn't suing because her perfectly healthy baby girl isn't perfectly healthy.

But also, it's just because of race.

Welcome everyone to our latest installment of "white people reframing arguments to avoid talking about racism."

I appreciate your earnest tone, but you gotta rethink a lot of that stuff.

Oh yeah! I actually referenced this article in a few responses to other people. They are definitely more incline to domestic violence than people in the same income bracket. But I severely doubt that CTE/brain damage has much or anything to do with it.

Ubisoft game development cycle:

Stage 1. Develop game for all consoles. Setting? Various and mysterious lands. Character? White guy.

The Five-Thirty-Eight article I've been relying on has said about what you just said.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-ra…

Lower than the national average, higher than the average—significantly higher!—than the same income bracket. So! I definitely didn't want to insinuate that NFL domestic violence rates were…

You're absolutely right. The issue is that domestic violence is common on every level of our society. That is the real evil. Making NFL players take the brunt of our ire and not actors (Honestly, how many famous actors have been arrested for domestic violence and still continue to have huge, successful careers?), or…

I follow the point though. I can imagine that there would be even more pressure to not report, given the public scrutiny their lives are under. There was actually a story on Deadspin, I believe, where women began calling Baltimore DV shelters saying they "didn't realize this happened to anyone else." And it's…

The Five-Thirty-Eight article says that DV in the NFL is (1) lower than the national average, (2) four times worse than the arrest rate for all other crimes in the NFL, (3) and significantly higher for their income bracket. Correct me if I'm off base but I think that's the basic breakdown?

Good point! But that's all we have to work with?

I don't think that's an accurate reading of the stats. It says that DV prevalence is still considerably lower than the national average, though it makes up a high portion of their total arrests.

I don't know if I'd go that faaaaaaaaar. I read some quick and dirty stats that said prevalence of crime in the NFL is slightly below the national average. It's just more publicized. The issue, I think, is that the NFL has continued to minimize domestic violence and allowed players who were god-awful human beings, in…