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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women

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Louisiana Senator: Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women

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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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“If you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear.”
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  • ian@mander.xyz
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    They’re even better if you only count white men

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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      Those numbers can go down even further if you exclude everyone who isn’t a millionaire.

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        Nope. I think once you exclude women, the maternal death rates will hit their minimum.

        • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
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          Trans men?

        • chaosCruiser@futurology.today
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          Yeah, now we’re talking.

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        No, no they cannot.

        • Nastybutler@lemmy.world
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          Sure it can with Trump Math™! The same math the will lower drug prices 1000%, 600%, 500%, 1500% can make this possible!

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      NaN gang represent

    • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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      Truly, the only demographic that matters, in cases like these. /s

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      deleted by creator

      • TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world
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        The joke is just that there isn’t a lot of maternal deaths among men

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          Don’t try and explain to them, sarcasm never works online

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    Ah, I have a modest proposal. Let’s count 60% of maternal deaths from black women. /s

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      A government can’t possibly serve the whole population. /s

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      We’ll call it the…60% Compromise. Got a nice ring to it.

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      With gerrymandering that number is often much lower these days. We’ve ended up with even worse than the 3/5

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    As expected racist pieces of shit.

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    Damn there really isn’t even a quiet part anymore is there

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    On my fuck…Dude seriously…you said admitted your racist ass racist bias, what a monster.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    May 20, 2022

  • LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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    Here’s an article about it that can actually be read.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    And our mass shooting events are pretty low when you don’t count bigoted white men.

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    So you’re going to do something to lower the maternal death rate for black women, right?

    /padme.jpg

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    This is from 3 years ago.

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    In an interview with Politico, the following words came out of Cassidy’s mouth: “About a third of our population is African American; African Americans have a higher incidence of maternal mortality. So, if you correct our population for race, we’re not as much of an outlier as it’d otherwise appear. Now, I say that not to minimize the issue but to focus the issue as to where it would be. For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality.”

    Scum POS. I’m sure he will start fixing the issue instead contributing to it.

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      I think he’s pointing out that this is a federal race-connected issue, not a local state issue. As in other states have similar stats if you group the numbers by race.

      If that is correct, that’s a fair assessment. He should obviously work with the rest of Congress to solve that national issue, though, and he should really spearhead it if it affects his state more.

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        Still a greater Louisiana problem

        Overall, according to Louisiana’s Department of Health, “four black mothers die for every white mother” in the state. It outpaces a three-to-one ratio nationwide, which is already the worst in the developed world, Politico reported.

        https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-la-outlier-maternal-death-rate-skewed-black-women-2022-5

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        If only states were capable of doing things to improve the lives of their residents above what the nation as a whole can do. Clearly it’s impossible. Woe be this poor powerless state politician.

        Your justification doesn’t hold within its own logic. And doesn’t address how blatantly racist the statement itself is.

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    What an inbred donkey.

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      hey, donkeys are noble creatures that bond with their human and can even emotionally reciprocate.

      this thing is a husk of a human being stuffed with fascist fecal matter.

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    👀

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    A Louisiana Senator saying something racist? Not News worthy.

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    The quiet part out loud.

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