ABC Bike Theft Social Experiment

[Shiranu]

[youtube:p9t5vyj3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg[/youtube:p9t5vyj3]

[Agramon]

Cenk Uygur shared this earlier on Twitter. I can't say I'm too surprised.  :-?

[Hijiri Byakuren]

I could have told you what would happen just from the title. Sociology really destroyed my faith in humanity.

[Shiranu]

Cenk Uygur shared this earlier on Twitter. I can't say I'm too surprised.  :-?

Oh damn, I don't follow him on Twitter I'll have to do that... he mentioned it on today's show though. And yeah, it's very expected.

[Aroura33]

Not surprised, but saddened.  Allthe youtube comments trying to say it was because of how the black youth dressed or acted don't help restore my faith in humanity either.  Did they watch how people HELPED the pretty girl steal the bike?  The point it, sadly, looks matter.  Black, white, young, old, female, male, we all make assumptions about a person based on these factors alone.

Plus, the white kid admits he's stealing the bike...repeatedly admits it to lots of people, and still no one stopped him.  You cannot explain that away by his clothes.

[LikelyToBreak]

The only thing I wander about, is if the white guy might have been confronted more, if he was as small as the black guy?  Not that I doubt, there was a racist and sexist response in the experiment, I just would have liked to seen a little better control of it.

I guess that makes me a racist and sexist.  Don't quite understand how, but I'm sure people will see me that way.  

The other reason, people will not get involved, is fear of our justice system.  Although, when I was younger, I might have helped the blond and risked it.  Damn testosterone anyway.