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shared by jdybing on 24 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • jdybing on 24 Oct 11
     
    A friend had shared a picture on Facebook that I saw today. It was copies from two articles about two different crimes. One was of a wealthy white man and one was of a homeless black man. The pictures note the sentences and crimes committed and imply that there was disparity in the sentencing. Here is a post I found on the two cases. What are your thoughts on the different cases?
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  • anonymous on 24 Oct 11
     
    Very interesting, jdybing. Not to say these stories don't highlight some of the serious injustices inherent in our justice system, but this is a good example of the type of thing it's always good to check out with Snopes - http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/roybrown.asp Additional details on the story sources are given there, but certainly nothing to discredit the comparison of the two cases entirely.
  • jdybing on 24 Oct 11
     
    I did some extra research on these two cases as well (including Snopes). I posted the linke that I did (and only that) for a couple of reasons. 1) Because of the potential inequality of the two cases and 2) because I don't think that most people look past the information give to them. I was glad to see that someone (granted you are the professor, but still) looked into the stories a bit more. I think that also says something about ethics. I recently sent a friend of mine (who was making claims about products other than those she was selling). The claims were that there was bat guano in many brands of mascara. She told me she had heard this from an optometrist but she had never done any research on her own. When I did (because I did not want to make claims that I did not know to be true), I forwarded some of the sources I found to her. In our society, we tend to take things at face value.
  • anonymous on 25 Oct 11
     
    Aha, very clever test :) Glad you're doing some of the critical thinking that, as you indicate, we need to be doing much more of. Keep up the good research!
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