@sctb: Which part of the guidelines do you feel he violated? If it's "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new

@sctb: Which part of the guidelines do you feel he violated? If it's "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them", one could argue that offering a link to a rigorous statistical analysis on this topic that come out last week will be new information to many readers. (responding to Snargorf here since direct reply isn't possible to dead comments) It was a fine article up until it repeated this Great Lie: "The amount of senseless shootings and beatings by the police towards other people of color is alarming." It's not necessarily a lie to say that the number of shootings of one group is alarming just because other groups are being shot in statistically equal numbers. For example, I might truthfully say that "the degree of extreme poverty in major US cities is alarming", even if there is also extreme poverty in rural areas, and even if the situation is worse in cities outside the US. In the context of the article, despite a high level of crime in Jamaica, he seems genuinely worried about the safety of his siblings were they to visit him in the US. Should the new statistical study alleviate his fears? Perhaps, but I'm sure you're familiar with the joke about the statistician who drowned in the river that had an average depth of just 2 feet. Statistics can be "true" without being universally applicable. Considering that the Bahamas (another majority-black Caribbean country) just released an official travel warning for travelers to the US, perhaps some of his fear is justified: http://mofa.gov.bs/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-and-immigration-issues-travel-advisory-for-bahamians-traveling-to-united-states-of-america/ http://mofa.gov.bs/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-and-immigrati...