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Made sense but you would get a flawed interpretation. There isn't really a need to follow people for 20 years either, unless you wanted to show changes in growth (or if you wanted a job for 20 years, but that is a statistics secret). Essentially, what you are proposing is a multiple regression and you want to find the best predictor for incarceration. Race would have a strong correlation, but its predictive capabilities would be consumed by any measure of poverty. Split the African American population by incomes and you will see a vast drop in incarceration rates which suggests that it is important to fund inner city schools and African American scholarships. Edit. I am going in deeper here. So when people associate black people with jail life, it is factually accurate (descriptive statistics) but intellectually misleading. I work with a lot of data that suggests that men and less intelligent than women, but gender isn't the primary cause. So if you perpetuate the stereotype on the simple factual level of descriptive statistics, you'll misinterpret data and risk harming people. So when people use these words associated with certain races, it is reinforcing the misinformed descriptive statistics about jail profiles. But the admins have made it clear they they do not mean to use the language in a racially associated way. Doesn't seem like the Brony thing to do, any.

It is a very complicated situation. While a lot of people feel comfortable with that word, i do not. I don't like the word is because you are making fun of a certain type of people for acting black, because only black people are suppose to be "unintelligent", "like rap", etc. There is a good documentary called Blacking Up that tries to address white people who "act black" and how society reacts to that. Points that are brought up 1. White people are harassed/beat up by other white people for appearing to be in the hip-hop culture 2. Black face 3. Imitation is a form of flattery Here is the video, scroll down halfway to watch Blacking Up. http://commten.weebly.com/extra-credit.html EDIT. i would like to add the reason why people are comfortable using that word is because it does have a history of oppression. Turns out today, white people use it against other white people as you'll see in the documentary. My position is that i am okay if you want to be white and act like a hip hop artist; skin isn't the important factor, culture and income are vastly more significant. Problems often arise when you do it just to make fun of like the music producers did with Vanilla Ice.

Thank you Aegean for your response. What type of psychology? Graduate or undergraduate? I have two tips if you are entering college for the first time; be a boss with 1. statistics and 2. take a Womens Studies and a African American studies class. Many students expect psychology is just about helping people, and then they find out it is a lot of statistics and research. The other hand is that psychology is often limited because people attribute findings to biology instead of the potential diversity of human behavior. Just have a basic understanding of two major minority groups can take a lot of the poop out of research. When you take a research methods class and if you use SPSS, buy a version of it on StudentDiscount.com. It'll save you a lot of time and you'll be a lot more valuable if you become fluent on it. I actually use to be part of this crowed. Take two years off my life and i would have been right there with everyone in this thread (4chan, lulz, umad?, etc). I would have cited freedom of speech or something like "if we use the word then we take away the meaning" or "you need to stop being ofended, it is just a wor I do feel uncomfortable talking about struggles of other minorities as a member to the majority, but there isn't a way to get around it. Thank you for your response. Edit: "TL;DR: We are not the problem, you must target internet as a whole with your ambition, not a public gaming community with thousands of new people monthly." Perhaps. A lot of people want to end hunger in the world. However, they cannot just attack hunger. Research often teachers that when you do statistical tests, K.I.S.S., keep it simple stupid. Start fighting hunger by setting a small goal that X is going to feed Y children with two meals a day for Z months. I am trying to do the same by finding communities that are fun and friendly. When i find communities like that, then i'll support them anyway i can.

McNeo, I made it clear that i have a problem with that language, and yet you keep on using that language against me.

But that is the whole principle to jail break. The rules of CSS use to be Ts vs CTs, kill each other. The rules of the game mode changes everyone's in game behaviors. When CTs free kill, other people say "hey dude, not cool", then they either stop or they continue. If they continue then they get banned/slayed/etcetcetc You can change behavior and it is rather easy. Thank you, by the way, for changing the tone of the discussion. I fell much more comfortable posting.

Hey, i first off want to say thank you. You have been one of the few people not to respond by perpetuationg the reason why i am posting here. Even if we end up disagreeing, i really appreciate the mature response. May your back be covered as a CT, and may your jail breaking be plentiful as a T, and may your steam wallet be full of cash. I agree there isn't a magical solution to the problem. I do institutional research for a University, so i work with a lot of data that could be horribly misinterpreted. I took it upon myself to learn about women and African American rights so that i do not make a mistake in interpreting my data. I am always constantly looking out for interesting sociology lessons because psychology has had a bad history with ignoring how fluid personality and culture can be. We often make mistakes assuming things like homosexuality were once mental disorders. Most people have recgonized that using certain words are wrong; this community has done a lot of that. But i think if people took the next step of just casually letting other people know they probably shouldn't say certain things. idk Thank you again

And it is the guys' fault. That didn't translate very well. I meant educated African Americans, primarily those who focus on the social struggles of the community. They are not the ones perpetuating words of oppression. Who are you to tell girls how to play video games? They can play however they want as long as they are not hurting or harassing you. Women also choose not to talk on the microphone or have feminine names because other users will act out, but that still isn't the woman's fault if other people cannot behave.

Sorry, in this case i meant co-leaders or the leader.

I would actually like to stop the discussion until i get an admins opinion in addition to McNeo's. I get the feeling that this actually isn't a welcoming and open community that the forum rules lead me to believe.

Because i have listened to educated African Americans and women speak about why they don't like to play video games. The creator of Fat, Ugly or Slutty has outlined pretty well that online video games have not been very accepting of women.

I don't keep racism alive. I merely recognize that it still exists instead of pretending like it doesn't. I try to read good amounts of minority literature so that i can understand the unique problems faced by women, African Americans, disabled people, etc. I also use my background in psychology to understand that our cognition is easily influenced. Telling racist jokes in the back room at work can alter an interviewers preferences. Even something like a cold cup of water can influence an interviewers opinion, statistically. The Hot and Cold of Priming

Honestly, I am not interested in a white/male defending racist opinions. However, if you have experience with psychology, sociology, or have been the target of words of oppression, yeah i am interested.

African Americans use the N word as a put down word of other African Americans. The word was so powerfully used by white people against African Americans that the word because synonymous with the putting down of other African Americans. This is also evident in how a lot of Aferican American children wish to be a lighter skin tone; i.e. lighter=better, darker=n-word. UPDATED: AC360 Series: Doll study research Children do not want to be the skin color they are. That is HUGE! By continually using the word, you are reinforcing it as a word of oppression. By using it in combination of a jail break game, you are reinforcing the societal problem of a disproportional amount of African Americans in the jail system. Without proper analysis, these problems get associated with skin color or culture. In actuality, it has way more to do with culture of poverty. Edit. Added the proper link here UPDATED: AC360 Series: Doll study research

That is a step in the right direction, but there is not a difference between the two words. The problem is people say things like "I don't think it is offensive" or "I don't think it is racist" when they are not even the target group for that oppressive group. It is harder for the majority group to see oppression of minority groups because it seems normal or the majority group doesn't understand it. If you watch south park, there was an episode where Token was angry at Stan or Kyle. At the end of the episode, Kyle or Stan finally understood how to understand African American problems; understanding that you don't understand.

Why would people be using that language otherwise?