Meh, the guy had what, 25 posts in two years? Granted, they weren't any good, but there was no pressing need to get rid of him. — SophistiCat

Good call about the other three (if my count is right). — SophistiCat

Florida is the new Italy — Baden

A mod somewhere recently said something like if you’ve been posting a while and haven’t been banned yet, that’s good evidence that they think you’re generally good enough and worth keeping around. — Pfhorrest

I read all those words in your post and I'm not sure what I was reading. Although I'm not sure what those things were, I'll go on record as saying they are all stupid. — Hanover

I don’t have this reaction towards all black people, — Pinprick

Quote to me the poster who is defending systemic racism or who is denying it exists and I will happily argue with that person with you. — Judaka

but it's lost in the "offtopic" debates which are over 90% of the posts here. — Judaka

For me to spend my time talking about how there is systemic racism and there is a need to do something about it any more than I already have would be pointless. — Judaka

[Another off-topic and prejudicial rant about leftists]... Anyway, I'm out. — Judaka

Nobody prejudices against groups like you, nobody characterises people by their groups like you. — Judaka

Baden and StreetlightX are batshit crazy leftists who say all kinds of stupid nonsense, Benkei is possibly even worse and Isaac seems no better. — Judaka

Philosophy of religion is a good place to start doing philosophy, but a bad place to stay. — Banno

Maybe in some circumstances, but I’d consider it to be common knowledge what type of appearance is associated with gang or thug mentality. — Pinprick

I expect the same level of criticism to be directed at those black people who intentionally dress a certain way in order to appear intimidating or thug-like. — Pinprick

But anyway, to expand the topic, I was also wondering about how this could also apply to things like accusations of police profiling. For example, police may very well pull over black people at a higher rate than white people for simple infractions like speeding. Some people, upon seeing this data, will then jump to the conclusion that the police are racially profiling. But, what if a large portion of these people pulled over dress in the way I’ve described? Do police have the right to become literal fashion police? I guess the point I’m getting at is that the issue of racism is much more nuanced than it is portrayed to be. It isn’t as simple as “white person treats black person bad, therefore racism.” — Pinprick

If you are referring to me, yes I understood what you were trying (poorly) to say and the miscommunication that was happening. I also understand that you are wrong, do not understand what you are talking about and have been as thoroughly refuted as Ive ever seen on this forum. Michael has been patient, clear, concise and gracious in this discussion and you didnt listen and dont understand whats being said to you.
You sir, are the living embodiment the Dunning Krueger effect. You are too ignorant about probability and logic to understand why you are in gross error here.
Im not trying to be rude. My hope is that you will be helped by these criticisms in the future, but its crystal clear that whatever learning you’ve done on probability and logic was the bare minimum education you needed in order to utilise these subjects to reinforce a conclusion you already reached/held. Ad Hoc I believe its called.
So Im sincerely sorry to be the one to tell you that your critical thinking, logic and understanding of basic probability are very poor and fundamentally flawed. If you have any interest in understanding ideas like this you will need to learn or be taught basic critical thinking and logic.
Maybe you really are some kind of genius at probability, destined for nobel prize and overturning all the experts in those fields with your new way of looking at them but you haven’t demonstrated that. You have only demonstrated where you lack understanding, which makes it all the more difficult to believe you are correct and we are to simple to understand your genius contribution to probability theory and logic.
I know its going to feel like im attacking you, but Im not. Education sometimes feels that way when you have made large fundamental errors. This is a good example of Dunning-Krueger but if you think it isnt then please tell me how you excluded that as a possibility. — DingoJones