Crime statistics split by demographic are commonly used as a dog whistle by racists. The people posting them typically aren't interested in discussing the reaso

Crime statistics split by demographic are commonly used as a dog whistle by racists. The people posting them typically aren't interested in discussing the reasons behind a particular demographic committing more crime beyond asserting that it's due to inherent traits. That those statistics were posted as a dog whistle is backed up by the user's other posts. On Portugal's African colonies: > The only thing to apologize is to ourselves. We should haver never went there and left you in the stone age. > All the infrastructure we left you weren't able to maintain, as it happened with 99% of the African countries. > Total mystery why. Casual quotation marks around youngsters: > And now robbing stores is becoming rampant as we can all testify by the loads of videos of "youngsters" entering stores and taking what they want without anyone doing anything.