# NYC mayor is basically a Democratic version of Trump **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 7, 2020, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-mayor-is-basically-a-democratic-version-of-trump/851257 "2020-04-07T06:53:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 83
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-mayor-is-basically-a-democratic-version-of-trump/851257/83 "2020-04-13T17:19:51Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > And yet, social scientist collect data all the damn time that do support various claims. “Prove” is a tricky word anyway; we’re talking about “support”. > > We don’t have sufficient empirical evidence to support that claim > [@](#): > > If a poster makes a claim here that a different group is being discriminated against, and presents a study whose author flat out states that the study does not support that claim, I will point out that poster’s science fail. Will that poster learn something? Or buckle down, falsely claim to have provided “tons of cites”, JAQ, imply others are behaving hypocritically, and generally entertain members of the board who actually are scientists? That’s not up to me. “Espenshade said his research found that, controlling other factors, Asian-American applicants seemed to face a disadvantage in college admissions” What he can’t support is the notion that it’s racism that is causing this disadvantage. When we see these inexplicable disparities with ANY OTHER RACE, we don’t really hesitate to call it racism. But with Asians, it’s just inexplicable. People like you are why racism can continue to exist. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyc-mayor-is-basically-a-democratic-version-of-trump/851257)._