Mighty Queef (wearing a t-shirt with the words “I resent white people despite them funding me”) “If a black person goes to jail it’s because the system is rigged against them but if a white person goes to jail it’s justice.”
Chad: “That’s quite some theory you have there. But don’t black people commit disproportionately more of the crimes, murders, and robberies than whites? So it makes sense that more of them would be in jail? This isn’t a racist statement just a fact.”
Mighty Queef (wearing a t-shirt with the words “I resent white people despite them funding me”) “If a black person goes to jail it’s because the system is rigged against them but if a white person goes to jail it’s justice.”
Chad: “That’s quite some theory you have there. But don’t black people commit disproportionately more of the crimes, murders, and robberies than whites? So it makes sense that more of them would be in jail? This isn’t a racist statement just a fact.”
Mighty Queef: “Data is racist! Charts are racist! I know for a fact that bar graphs are infected with white supremacy! You been trying to keep the black man down for 400 years!”
Ah yes. You cannot win this debate even when writing the other site, so you have the strawman derail the discussion into an incoherent, obviously absurd tangent directed at a completely different bogeyman*).
I mean, Mighty Queef’s natural response is obvious: He believes that black prison sentences in general, or even always, are miscarriages of justice by a corrupt racist justice system. He will not accept the official conviction statistics as reflecting the actually racial rates of criminality, but the courts biases.
In real life, this still stands, if obviously not in such absolutes. A disproportionate conviction rate is exactly what systemic racism in the justice system would result in. Your big counterargument is an observation your opponents do not deny, but indeed accept yet offer an different explanation for.
It should also be noted that it is entirely possible that a demographic group is both disproportionately involved in crime** and to be wrongfully convicted at a disproportionate rate.
* pretending to be the defenders of Science And Logic™ against the threat of postmodernism - despite your own extreme anti-intellectualism,
** which one should not assume to stem from an innate criminality, especially when there are obvious social factors, such as higher rates of poverty, lower upwards mobility, greater hesitancy to get the police involved to a history of bad experiences…