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In a few hours the Americans will wake up and a bunch of them on HN will say that it's a loaded or divisive or misleading title or that the statistics is flawed
by flexie 9y ago
In a few hours the Americans will wake up and a bunch of them on HN will say that it's a loaded or divisive or misleading title or that the statistics is flawed. And HN is decisively more progressive than most of the country which simply ignores this kind of news.
It is the way it is in America, because - as a whole - they don't care that much about gun violence.
It's mostly blacks and Latinos getting killed and they are still minorities. And the poor white Americans that also fall victim to police and other gun violence just don't have much political influence.
- chrisan 9y ago> It's mostly blacks and Latinos getting killed and they are still minorities. And the poor white Americans that also fall victim to police and other gun violence just don't have much political influence Honest question: Couldn't this just be grouped into "poor people" Are affluent blacks and latinos being killed? I am not denying racism by any means, but it seems people of poverty are most at risk.
- sintaxi 9y agoEven more accurate would be to say people who commit crimes are most at risk of being killed by the police.
- TheAdamAndChe 9y ago> they don't care that much about gun violence Don't blame either our messed up political system or our militarized police on us. At this point, our government is a corporate oligarchy that has been gerrymandered and rigged to the point that our vote does not matter, and the low pay of our cops combined with the stream of military gear and low amount of training made them trigger-happy. It's not our people that want this.