Greyparrot

A white person that will kiss the ass of nonwhites & say something like black people are better or that they’re ashamed of their white privilege. Also known as white Uncle Tom.

David: I’m gonna join Black Lives matter! Because I think black people are oppressed by my privilege & I'm ashamed!

Edward: You’re an Uncle Tim.

Our analysis of Pennsylvania sentencing practices adds to the small num-

ber of empirical studies of the effects of judge’s race on sentencing out-

comes. More so than past research, our analysis is based on current or 1990s

sentencing practices, involves a large number of cases, includes rigorous

controls for legally relevant variables, and considers whether white and black

judges use similar/distinct criteria in their sentencing decisions.

We find many similarities between black and white judges’ sentencing

decisions. There is considerable overlap in the sentences imposed and in the

weighing of criteria for determining sentence severity. For example, the legal

variables of prior criminal history and offense seriousness are the main de-

terminants of the sentencing decisions of black as well as white judges; both

invoke a “trial penalty,” and so forth. These findings are consistent with the

organizational position (versus the “individual” or “person” viewpoint),

which postulates that the powerful influences of selection and socialization

to the judicial role will largely offset pre-officeholding attitudes of judges.

However, we also find a noteworthy race-of-judge difference: black judges

in their sentencing decisions. Importantly, this difference is uniform regardless

of whether the defendant is black or white. The significance of black judges’

greater punitiveness in the decision whether or not to incarcerate rests partly

on the actuality that a prison sentence, regardless of its length, is potentially

stigmatizing and severing of employment and ties to communities, families,

and friends, and also potentially perilous, since inmates face risks of violence

and sexual victimization at the hands of other inmates.

Taken together, our findings are contrary to three prevalent assumptions

in the literature: (1) that black judges would be more lenient or “softer” on

defendants as a whole because they will sympathize with the underdog and

the poor (which defendants disproportionately are); (2) that black judges

would favor or be softer on black defendants and (3) that black judges would

be more even-handed in their sentencing decisions and that increasing the number

of black judges would contribute to greater equality in sentencing practices. Instead, black and

white judges appear equally even-handed (or biased).

In short, white Judges are (relative) pussies when it comes to sentencing due to social stigmas and the weak moral convictions of most whites.

“People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.'

If you didn't know what sleep was, and you had only seen it in a science fiction movie, you would think it was weird and tell all your friends about the movie you'd seen.

They had these people, you know? And they would walk around all day and be OK? And then, once a day, usually after dark, they would lie down on these special platforms and become unconscious. They would stop functioning almost completely, except deep in their minds they would have adventures and experiences that were completely impossible in real life. As they lay there, completely vulnerable to their enemies, their only movements were to occasionally shift from one position to another; or, if one of the 'mind adventures' got too real, they would sit up and scream and be glad they weren't unconscious anymore. Then they would drink a lot of coffee.'

So, next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.”

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It's a weird age. They're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still don't know whether to be like, 'Congratulations,' or 'Do you need a ride?'