Racial sensitivity question deleted, why?
I asked a question about why real empirical observations are often dismissed as being racist and it was deleted.
The purpose of the question wasn't to defend generalizations, but rather to examine why people have such an emotional reaction as opposed to a logical one. Stating that per capita, Muslim families have a higher incidence of children than Christian families is objectively true according to census >Update:
Of course I know what balanced means. That's the entire point of the question. Why do people have to have a bias toward some interpretation of the data as opposed to the data themselves?
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People are sensitive. If you lived your entire life having people attack on you the basis of race, even if it was just a feeling of superiority and never spoken aloud, you would become sensitive to it. If people spent so much of their time using "observable fact" to justify their own racist comments or beliefs, then you would be much less trusting of people who want to discuss "facts."
The truth is, there is nothing racist about a fact. There can't be. But it doesn't matter. The minute that you bring up a race or a group of people in a general sense, you are walking a fine fine line.
Your other question, which I answered (thanks for the BA, by the way), wasn't racist. But there was at least one person who didn't read the whole thing, or was offended by the examples you used. That's the entirety of it. You don't have to look for deeper meaning.
Remember that answerer, Qwerty? She was offended by your question and how she perceived its implications. She's also a top contributor with a good history. If she reported your question citing racism, your question is gone. Many people will be offended, just like her, when you want to have a discussion about race, regardless of how you frame the question. That is why your first question got deleted. That's why this one may get deleted.
My answer may get deleted even though I'm not being critical of anyone or anything. That's the nature of communities.
Most likely because your question focused on things generally considered as negative, and weren't balanced. Do you know what "balanced" even means?
Edit: What you say is true - perhaps I should have said because a lot of people do the behaviours that I mentioned, and others just get tired of it and think "oh, here's another question with someone trying to use facts as a weapon" even though there is probably another explanation. (Really, if 100 people ask things like I am talking about and 1 person doesn't, do you REALLY expect everyone to that 101st question all the way through?)
Thought police.