You aren't tying either racial disparities or explicit racism to any political viewpoint with that quote. If you combine that section with the part that tells you "only a tiny percentage of law enforcement officials are likely to be active members of white supremacist groups", you can reach the conclusion that racism is being driven in more significant ways.
I did. I'm not sure you did. It spoke of law enforcement agencies deficient in ways to identify or remove overtly racist police officers. The author wants law enforcement to do more to expel white supremacists from their ranks, as well as use law enforcement against those people more proactively, and is disappointed in the perceived lack of effort to do so, and suggests ways to achieve those goals.
You have a glass which contains 100g of water. Dissolved in that water is 1mg of tetrodotoxin. Are you going to argue that the solution is safe to drink, because only 0.001% of the mass is tetrotoxin?
Now you're just stealing bad analogies from other people. I'm genuinely disappointed.
I think it's more that you're trying to avoid the point.
If you took a few moments to think carefully, I think you might accept how utterly meaningless that comment is.
Are you planning to carefully remove the tetrodotoxin before drinking the rest of the water, or does that analogy not apply to your beliefs about police at all?
No you didn't
Your link said the people in white supremacist groups only make up a TINY portion of the police. How are such a tiny portion of people in the police (or any institution) causing institutional racism to continue by keeping said policies in place or adding more racist policies to the institution?
Because they don't care about the far-right when the people perpetrating all the violence aren't the far-right.
At like 12 murders a year... There's 12 murders a week in Chicago. So maybe on average 1 right-wing murder in Chicago the whole year, that's 0.16% of the murders. That is totally people's top priority right there!!!
I walked around the entirety of Chicago, talked to every inhabitant, and they said you're wrong about those numbers.
Well, the far right are the ones arguing that the institutional racism set up by the past racists doesn't exist and doesn't need to be changed, thus perpetuating the institutional racism, so there's that.
The analogy is to illustrate that small amounts of something can have significant effects.
Or they can have almost no effect. "Can" is literally anything in analogy world. If you could read minds and remove every white supremacist or white supremacist sympathizer from the ranks of police, what percentage of racial disparity in policing would you expect to eliminate? 1%? 2%? It's not that big of a number.
