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Blacks and Jews were excluded from Alameda County juries for decades, Feds say (jpost.com)
8 points by racional on May 17, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


While obviously unjust...the headline sounds about as newsworthy as "ice cream discovered in American grocery store's frozen aisle".

Does anyone have a feel for whether the article is click-bait for the JPost's user demographic? With recent headlines, I'd hope that those folks would already have picked up on America not being any Promised Land of truth & justice.


You may know that. The Jews may know that. But every reminder and corroboration is vitally important.

In my experience, a HUGE proportion of white gentiles don't believe that racism and anti-Semitism exist. Yes, if they vote Dem, they might believe these things exist "in theory." (Maybe they even have a Black Lives Matter sticker.) But almost never in any specific instance. For a specific instance, they'll always find a "logical alternative" to explain the behavior, one that is not racism or anti-Semitism.


Shitloads of people seem to think racism is "solved".

People like the goddamned supreme court, who kneecapped the voting rights act just recently.


Well, in the specific case of the Supreme Court and the Senate and House, I think a lot of those people enthusiastically embrace racism.

But yeah, "racism is solved" is their justification, at least until Trump II when then can drop the façade.


Theory: If $Person is a white gentile, who doesn't think racism or antisemitism exist, then $Person is not reading the JPost.

Is the point of the article to be a "no, you are not crazy, nor imagining it" reassurance to JPost readers?


You're focusing too much on this specific article.

My point is about this type of coverage in general, even on topics that might seem "solved" or "obvious" to you.

And even this article in the JPost is a useful reference for a JPost reader to use when a white person says "that never happened," which is EXTREMELY common.


Millions of people falsely believing that the earth is flat is not a good reason for the Journal of Astrophysical Research to waste time, pages, or screen real estate running a "The Earth is Not Flat" article. (Admission: I'm so d*mn old that I don't believe performative virtue to be an acceptable substitute for intelligently attempting to fix real-world problems.)

The JPost article is 99% worthless as a rebuttal for "that never happens" denialism - because it has zero cites to original sources. (Or is my AV software erasing a sidebar full of links to supporting government documents?)


I'm not sure what constitutes an "original source" in your eyes. The article quotes several people by name (including the current DA), and refers to specific cases.


Do you see any credibility difference between these two?

"The US Supreme Court says that five factors weigh strongly in favor of overruling Roe and Casey."

- and -

"Page 43 of the ruling - https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf - states that five factors weigh strongly in favor of overruling Roe and Casey."




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