a jessup
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hypothetically speaking, say that there are two different groups in a certain town and you had to pick one group to join.
Group A people:
can be made fun of
make more money
are less likely to go to jail
get better interest rates
....
Group B people:
make less money
are more likely to be in jail
pay more to borrow money
BUT THEY CAN'T BE TEASED.
which group would you want to be a part of?
You're acting as if making money, going to jail, or getting better interest rates are random events. They're not. White people are more likely to pursue more lucrative jobs, so they earn more money. (Hint: if higher earnings imply discrimination, then why do NE Asians and Jews outearn White Gentiles on average? Do these groups "discriminate" against Gentile White people, or do they earn their higher income?)
Likewise, people aren't just tossed into prison, they go to jail for commiting crimes. Frame-ups happen, but are relatively rare (the fact that prisons are such hellholes implies that most of the people "selected" for imprisonment earned their stay). Studies that control for all of the sentencing variables tend to find little to no racial discrimination in the legal process, although jurors do relate better to victims that share their racial background. If The Man's framing People of Color, then how do NE Asian men avoid prison at higher rates than Whitey himself?
Finally, studies that take default rates into account find little evidence for credit discrimination. In fact, when the government passed the Community Reinvestment Act, a law which forces banks to loan money to people (usually minorities) with poor credit history, they accelerated the subprime mortgage crisis that's now affecting the entire world. And ended up hurting the people they were trying to help.
Even if your points were valid, that doesn't give Hopkins a free pass for bigotry. Why couldn't he have found a more clever way to belittle Zag if he's just selling tickets? And would that give Zag a free pass to do the same?