Instigator / Pro
4
1644
rating
64
debates
65.63%
won
Topic
#3037

THBT The US Has Discriminatory Political Policies Regarding Minorities

Status
Finished

The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

Winner & statistics
Better arguments
0
3
Better sources
2
2
Better legibility
1
1
Better conduct
1
1

After 1 vote and with 3 points ahead, the winner is...

FourTrouble
Parameters
Publication date
Last updated date
Type
Standard
Number of rounds
4
Time for argument
Two days
Max argument characters
10,000
Voting period
One month
Point system
Multiple criterions
Voting system
Open
Contender / Con
7
1502
rating
8
debates
37.5%
won
Description

Full description: whether explicitly or implicitly, the US [United States] currently has political policies that unfairly treat minorities (blacks, Hispanics, Indians, and other under-represented groups).

Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

I was curious whether the crux of my Systemic Racism was flawed or not. Anyone other than Coal is free to accept.

Criterion
Pro
Tie
Con
Points
Better arguments
3 point(s)
Better sources
2 point(s)
Better legibility
1 point(s)
Better conduct
1 point(s)
Reason:

As CON stated in his opening, "[t]his debate is about whether current US policy unfairly discriminates against minorities." In CON's words, mere demonstration of "past injustice" or "systemic racism," is not the same thing as establishing "current US policy towards minorities" that are discriminatory. Further as CON stated in R1, (i) civil rights laws protect minorities from discrimination and (ii) executive orders do the same. He listed numerous of them. PRO at no point meaningfully stated why any of the civil rights laws or executive orders identified by CON fail to prohibit discrimination against minorities, as became his burden once PRO cited them. Instead, PRO spent his characters trying to show that discrimination of the past, which CON did not dispute, translates into current discrimination. This he was unable to do because, as CON states in R4, even if it was true that the disparate outcomes identified by PRO were the case, they are better explained by "socially-mediated behavioral disparities" rather than the result of any "current US policy."

In my opinion, CON won this debate.

Further details on my opinion can be located at comments 10-13, which contain, respectively, Parts 1-3 of the same, that I will link below:

https://www.debateart.com/debates/3037/comment-links/37811
https://www.debateart.com/debates/3037/comment-links/37812
https://www.debateart.com/debates/3037/comment-links/37813