“I, a corrections officer for a region in which there is a statistically anomalously high black population, express surprise when it turns out that the black inmate turned out to be innocent all along, because usually I don’t happen to see that happen, given the fact that all my prisoners are post-conviction, and am phrasing this as ‘when your black inmate ends up released because it turns out the prosecution messed up and they were innocent all along’ with an image of my face very surprised but don’t worry it’s not racist because I legitimately see a lot of bad black people”
Edit: also, pointedly, other commenters are saying that in the original video it was actually s response to the man getting slapped for saying this, and not about the man saying this, so the actual original person wasn’t being sexist but the person taking the screenshot was just some rando
But this isn't remotely the same situation? You are doing an apples to oranges comparison.
A CO's "data pool" of convicts is very different because there is a huge legal process to get there. That process is not fair, questionably accurate, and biased. But it is also quite extensive and driven by dozens to hundreds of people and choices before an inmate is incarcerated... that results in diminished agency of the inmates in a highly controlled, extreme environment (arguably cruel and unsafe) for sustained time.
A nurse's data pool of fathers is comprised of... Men who got a woman pregnant. So yes there's still a selection bias at play here in who women are copulating with, what women have access to family planning methods vs don't... but there's quite a bit more agency of a man in the hospital room than a man who has been incarcerated by the state after hundreds of people have decided so and then condemned that person in an exteme environment for years. Because at the end, the father at the hospital gets to just go home. And also the women are undergoing a major acute medical event and could die, whereas prison behavior is not always (or even often) informed by an acute medical event of two loved ones simultaneously.
So a nurse's access to a reasonable average of behavior is far more representative than a COs. If you wanted to argue that two nurses between two zip codes (one wealthy and one poor) might experience different patient behavior or something that doesn't extrapolate to all people, I could get behind that argument. Because I'm not even arguing about whether men are disengaged or not during labor. I'm just arguing that your argument doesn't work for your stated claim. These are two distinct groups and the issues of racism and bias in the prison industrial complex or of misandry and misogyny in labor are not benefitted by being compared to eachother as they trivialize the other in key areas.
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Not even mentioning the huge inherent self selection biases of people who decide to become COs vs nurses OR the commonly understood (though problematic) cultural expectations of those professions (punishment/guarding/safety profession vs healing/helping). And the personal story these professions tell themselves and how that impacts their perception of people.
CO: I'm here to protect society from the "bad people." And they were deemed bad by a hundreds year old system I don't understand by dozens of other people. And who am I to question that? Because if I think the system might be flawed, then maybe I'm a bad person for being a CO... or maybe I'm bad for not being hard on crime.
Nurse: I'm here to heal people. Healing is a good thing. Maybe I'm not always at my best and I don't know everything, maybe medical procedures have biases in them that hurt people... but in questioning those, I am still healing people.
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u/Mountain-Resource656 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
“I, a corrections officer for a region in which there is a statistically anomalously high black population, express surprise when it turns out that the black inmate turned out to be innocent all along, because usually I don’t happen to see that happen, given the fact that all my prisoners are post-conviction, and am phrasing this as ‘when your black inmate ends up released because it turns out the prosecution messed up and they were innocent all along’ with an image of my face very surprised but don’t worry it’s not racist because I legitimately see a lot of bad black people”
Edit: also, pointedly, other commenters are saying that in the original video it was actually s response to the man getting slapped for saying this, and not about the man saying this, so the actual original person wasn’t being sexist but the person taking the screenshot was just some rando