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Title: NFL says it will halt the use of "race-norming" for brain injury claims
Post by: TechMan on June 03, 2021, 11:51:42 AM
The NFL has been using "race-norming" which assumed Black players started our with lower cognitive functioning.  So who is the racist?

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/06/03/apparently-the-nfl-has-been-very-busy-engaging-in-hands-down-the-single-most-egregious-case-of-institutional-racism-in-the-21st-century/ (https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/06/03/apparently-the-nfl-has-been-very-busy-engaging-in-hands-down-the-single-most-egregious-case-of-institutional-racism-in-the-21st-century/)
Title: Re: NFL says it will halt the use of "race-norming" for brain injury claims
Post by: MechAg94 on June 03, 2021, 01:05:26 PM
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Yes, there is systemic racism.

This is literally "systemic racism".  Similar to what we have seen in various areas of the left.  The assumption that different races are superior or inferior and actions based on that.  Another case of the left blaming everyone else for what they themselves were doing. 
Title: Re: NFL says it will halt the use of "race-norming" for brain injury claims
Post by: dogmush on June 03, 2021, 03:17:52 PM
It says they are coming up with new "norms" to use going forward.  I am shocked that the NFL isn't just doing individual cognitive testing on yearly basis to map TBI and Cognitive issues.  Then they wouldn't have to worry about biased norms. It's not that many people in the grand scheme of things.  The DOD does before tests on every service member deploying and will do another test if anything even remotely concussive happens. I guess I can kind of understand racial norming in the 90's (that was the norm then, after all) but there's no excuse for any kind of norming now, and going forward.


As a side note, between stuff like this, the criminality, the rampant sexual assault and harassment issues, the documented health issues (and shady medical practices to keep players playing), and the corruption of the owners and league I kinda question the morality of people that still watch football.  At some point you own a little responsibility for the things you support.