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What if you just provide the link, and the stats prove that some races are worse than others, who would be racist in that scenario, the stats, the stat collectors or the person that provided the link?
If you need to have a life changing event to realize that other people have feelings, you're probably a lifelong racist.
Those links and stats can be interpreted that way, if that's what you want from them. Most people who cite them want precisely that, what they see on their face. They tend to avoid variables and confounding variables, ya know, investigating precisely why the data says what it says. People with an agenda are merely happen with an implied conclusion.
No, not at all. If you had to have a life-changing event to realize that other people not of your race have feelings, you were probably indoctrinated into racism and honestly believed other races were different and thus, less human than you, and that life changing event broke the spell. Not altogether different from leaving a fundamentalist religion, or a gang, literally anything that requires you to think a certain way.
If what you implied was true Darryl Davis's life work in society would have been a colossal waste of time:
It wasn't