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Please do tell me what's "disgusting" about mentioning a statistical fact? Feel free to look at the FBI's uniform crime statistics, among others and see what I

Please do tell me what's "disgusting" about mentioning a statistical fact? Feel free to look at the FBI's uniform crime statistics, among others and see what I mean. Ideological considerations only make progress harder when they blatantly try to ignore realities. As for your claim that police disproportionately kill black people, well, actually it's a bit more complicated than that and doesn't quite negate what I mentioned above about crime stats. Every unjustifiable death of a black individual or anyone at the hands of the police is a tragedy and a probabl crime that needs to be addressed, but here, read these if you like, for additional perspective: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/11/opinion/statistical-paradox-police-killings/ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/11/opinion/statistical-p... https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-rac...

commentingbadly 6y ago
Maybe you think you are being helpful and informative, but citing the FBI statistics is a tired trope and you are behaving, online, indistinguishably from hardcore racists. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/despite-being-only-13-percent-of-the-population https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/despite-being-only-13-percent... EDIT: themgt, this is not a throwaway account. I'm a long time user that often gets banned and returns to try again to have reasonable discourse. I find it hard because for educated people, many on this site are full of unexamined biases. Ok, so I cited another take on crime statistics when presented with the super-trope of OP citing the FBI crime statistics. What I'm trying to do is educate you and others that if you don't socialize with the other half of the internet, well they see someone post the FBI crime statistics and they think, "Wow, what a total racist or a total knucklehead." What is the truth that you want me to know that you don't think I don't? I'll tell you the truth that I want you to know: if you reach for the FBI crime statistics instead of the testimony and experience of law-abiding people of color then your trust is in authority and not in the integrity of good people everywhere
- themgt 6y ago
  You posted the link to USA Today which cites and links multiple times to the exact same FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, which are the USA's canonical summary of national crime data. I am flagging this because you're a throwaway account who's calling people Nazis and "hardcore racists" for referring to the exact same dataset you yourself brought into the discussion. This type of grossly unprincipled behavior is why having a productive discussion about crime in this country is impossible.

commentingbadly 6y ago

Maybe you think you are being helpful and informative, but citing the FBI statistics is a tired trope and you are behaving, online, indistinguishably from hardcore racists. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/despite-being-only-13-percent-of-the-population https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/despite-being-only-13-percent... EDIT: themgt, this is not a throwaway account. I'm a long time user that often gets banned and returns to try again to have reasonable discourse. I find it hard because for educated people, many on this site are full of unexamined biases. Ok, so I cited another take on crime statistics when presented with the super-trope of OP citing the FBI crime statistics. What I'm trying to do is educate you and others that if you don't socialize with the other half of the internet, well they see someone post the FBI crime statistics and they think, "Wow, what a total racist or a total knucklehead." What is the truth that you want me to know that you don't think I don't? I'll tell you the truth that I want you to know: if you reach for the FBI crime statistics instead of the testimony and experience of law-abiding people of color then your trust is in authority and not in the integrity of good people everywhere

themgt 6y ago
You posted the link to USA Today which cites and links multiple times to the exact same FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, which are the USA's canonical summary of national crime data. I am flagging this because you're a throwaway account who's calling people Nazis and "hardcore racists" for referring to the exact same dataset you yourself brought into the discussion. This type of grossly unprincipled behavior is why having a productive discussion about crime in this country is impossible.