some slight presumptions being made

For the same reason we distinguish hate crime laws.

All your previous questions were generic and did not refer to the case at hand either.

Well... there are two claims I was curious about that I mention in my OP. The first is if she actually receives a disproportionate amount of gendered backlash and, as you point out, individual examples don’t actually substantiate this claim. The examples say nothing about proportionality. As for a Google search...…

What does science have to say about what generalized data tells us about the reality of any specific case? The answer is... wait for it... almost nothing.

While trash talk is a time-honored tradition of playing for an audience of gamers, Amine has gotten a disproportionate amount of backlash that specifically targets her gender, some of which has bleeded into real life. And Kotaku reached out to Amine for a comment, but she did not respond by the time of publication.

And to me at least, the fact they walked up to a BLACK man watering flowers and thought they had reasonable suspicion a crime was taking place means we should, as the author said, call a spade a spade. Never in my life would I find that suspicious. People robbing you do not stop to water the garden.

The first two things are essentially the same thing and the latter depends on a lot of variables we don’t actually have. Bad cops do this sort of stuff to white people all the time (at nearly the same rate overall, when you control for the rate of interactions), but that isn’t really newsworthy in our current context.

So far as I know he admitted that he direct them to avoid serving her at her boyfriend’s home or at their children’s school (to avoid doing it directly in front of their children), but that (allegedly) was the extent of his direction.

There is a critical difference between believing what someone says about their own actions and believing what someone thinks about someone else’s actions. The mind-reading is the inherently less believable claim.

I mean... they can both be telling the truth, in so far as they know it, but one of them is simply much…

Evidence?

I think he admitted that he didn’t want them served at her home or at their children’s school (to avoid doing it directly in front of their children), but that (supposedly) was the extent of his direction.

It’s often a level of analysis issue that people have trouble explaining. Whatever is true about the broader context of history can mean very little to an individual directly suffering some personal slight within their very narrow context of experience.

I’m mean... we are all essentially the same creatures with the…

It’s more accurate to say they have obligations to uphold the law. When they are called we expect them to show up and investigate and when they fail at any of the above we expect them to be fired. So... showing up to calls... and, yes, even asking simple questions when you get there... this all fits pretty comfortably…

Yeah, he gave part of his name and told them where he lives. These cops are pretty idiotic... classic case of non-compliance rage. The training all directs towards maintaining control of a situation and some fuckers blindly escalate when they feel like they are losing control.

The only thing required in Alabama for an officer to demand your ID, which you can be arrested for refusing, is a suspicion that you have or are about to commit a felony “or other public offense”.

Setting aside what I think about the above code... if the officer just came along and started asking questions then this is …

The only thing required in Alabama for an officer to demand your ID, which you can be arrested for refusing, is a suspicion that you have or are about to commit a felony “or other public offense”.

Setting aside what I think about the above code... if the officer just came along and started asking questions then this is …

I imagine it would entirely depend on *how* collaborative it really is (do they really have influence?).

But if the writer hands the artist the song, the artist reads the lyrics and says it sounds good or offers suggestions on things to change, then it doesn’t really feel forced.

I think the thing I’m having trouble with is finding where the article says “no black people were involved in the creation of the character”.

The New York Times article states that while FN Meka is indeed voiced by a Black man, things like “lyrical content, chords, melody, tempo, sounds” were partially derived by artificial intelligence. At the same time, allegedly, only one white man is involved with FN Meka’s act