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Sonic Underground 07: Underground Masquerade

I’m watching Sonic Underground in search of inspiration to finish a fic I’ve been writing forever. It’s a sad state of affairs. See the recap of the first three episodes here, if you're interested!

The plot (for want of a better word): The Sonic Underground takes a pack of thieving urchins under the wing to try and bring them to the right path. But surrounded by the life he left behind, can Manic truly let go of his past?

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Suspects who are unemployed, poorly educated or without a stable home receive on average tougher treatment in the Dutch justice system than

Suspects who are unemployed, poorly educated or without a stable home receive on average tougher treatment in the Dutch justice system than better-off suspects facing comparable charges, two new studies have found. The pattern is driven less by judges imposing harsher sentences for the same offence than by which cases reach them, according to the justice ministry’s research centre, the WODC. Suspects in a stronger position are more often dealt with early and out of court – through a fine, community service or a prosecutor’s penalty order – while those in a weaker position more often end up before a judge, where outcomes are heavier and leave a lasting record. Small decisions by police, prosecutors and judges, the researchers said, accumulate into large differences in the final sentence. Work and education weigh most The studies examined suspects’ education, income, work and housing. Work and education mattered most: those with a job or qualifications received on average lighter penalties than those without. Taken across all cases, the WODC concluded, this produces structurally worse outcomes for suspects in a weaker position. Migration background played a smaller part than socioeconomic factors – a shift in emphasis from the first report in the project a year ago, which centred on ethnic selectivity. But it had not vanished: second-generation suspects were still more likely to be sent before a judge and given heavier sentences, even after socioeconomic differences were taken into account. Suspects with no fixed address were relatively often jailed.

Given that most non-white Dutch are poorer than the average white Dutch national the racial bias still exists.

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Yale University study: Class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech

Roland G. Fryer wrote in the Education Next article, “Acting White”:

“Go into any inner-city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can’t teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.” —Barac…

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

Herman Melville

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One study estimated that by the time children are 4 years old, those growing up with parents in professional occupations, such as teachers, lawyers, and doctors, have heard 32 million more words than children raised in poor families (Risley & Hart, 1995). If the impoverished child was never exposed to the word, but would readily have learned it if he had heard it used, then isn’t it an unfair measure of the child’s intelligence that he doesn’t know this word that children from an educated family know?

An extract from "Class Bias Is Found in Most IQ Tests" from S. Marc Breedlove's Principles of Psychology.

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Nothing shows the class bias of American media like the way we talk about immigration. We almost always talk about it from the point of view of the employer seeking to pay less for labor, rarely from the point of view of the displaced or undercut employee.

David Frum

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Sonic Underground 07: Underground Masquerade

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