Professor stupidmonkey wrote:
But it could just as easily be that they were different, not their behavior, but they themselves. It is JUST as likely.
No, it's not "just" as likely. Not if the "they" you're referring to here is merely the color of their skin. Two things can both be "possible", but with radically different probabilities. This is one of those cases. For someone with "professor" in his name, I'd think you'd be aware of the difference. Statistically somewhere just under a million black people walk into a Starbucks every single day in the US. If that was "just as likely" to get you tossed out as being rude, or offensive, or threatening to the staff, we'd expect a similar percentage of black people to be asked to leave or risk arrest as we'd see of those being tossed out due to those behaviors.
I think it's pretty clear that is not remotely close to the case. At least, I'd hope it is. If it's not, then you've got a serious case of narrative blinders going on.