As countries on both sides of the Atlantic ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants, Spain’s left-wing government is preparing to give legal status to hundreds of thousands of irregular workers. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has championed the amnesty as a way to not only give informal workers legal protections, but to also bring more money into a social security system increasingly under stress by the country’s ageing population.
How is data racism?
Data might lead to racism. Or data might show racism. But data is not racism.
Data is meaningless without context, bias and choices about what is taken as data and how it is taken. Data is a direct expression of the biases we bring to the table when we first begin with a question.
If you believe data cannot encode racism into it, you are a fool.