[SocJus] Is Amazon Prime Too White?
archive.is/DBhxhPosted Apr 22, 2016, 2:22 PM UTC
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It's not the fault of luxury goods sellers if there is a pattern of lower service uptake in poorer neighbourhoods that can be linked to race, that's the governments problem in its education program and equitable employment legislation.
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Good ol correlation does not equal causation.
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and leaving more majority black ZIP codes out of the loop.
ZCoC (zip codes of color) now?
This article makes no sense...
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Disparate impact strikes again! If something benefits whites more than it benefits blacks or the POCs-du-jour, let's get rid of it! If something benefits the POCs-du-jour and blacks more than it benefits whites, let's have more of it!
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This shows the intersectionality of limited resources and physical space as reinforcing the white supremacist archetypal power dynamic expressed through the patriarchy of a rape culture that has adopted hetero-normative systems rooted in the exploitative nature of capitalism.
Or some fucking nonsense word salad like that.
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Amazon should send those delivery drivers into hell's open arms so some lady in a "predominately black zip code" can have same day delivery on the Blu-ray copy of Barber Shop?
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of ALL THE FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS..Are you KIDDING ME with this shit?
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I'm pretty sure they choose locations based on how profitable they'll be. Numbers don't give a fuck about skin color. You're actually complaining that amazon doesn't include race in their metrics (aka racism) when making decisions.
Yeah, these people are just trying to shove an even more warped form of racism, period.
But statistics are racist! ^/s
They contain a lot more information than numbers.