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A bunch of claims that cannot be easily verified and may never pay off even if they are true and viable. Why can't we do something about the genocide of young
by fwungy 4y ago
A bunch of claims that cannot be easily verified and may never pay off even if they are true and viable.
Why can't we do something about the genocide of young black men that is being committed by young black men, for example?
- pineaux 4y agoWe cant fix that because our economic system is rigged against black people. They are kicked down and are forced to fight each other for scraps. The same rigging benefits you (probably) and thus you cannot think of a solution. This rigging starts very early. It's the looks they get in the supermarket. It's how educators think these kids are less smart and give them less chances. Their parents dont educate them in smartness-indicators like the use of certain words or the non-use of others. The parents dont educate them in these indicators because they feel these indicators are from "white people". They are proud of their own culture because they are rejected by the elites (mostly white/Asian). The elites in turn reject them for their "lower class"(read black) behavior. I bet you even do this. After that the easy way is to blame the black people for their upbringing/culture. That closes the loop and blames them for their own failure. But the cause and effects are the other way around.
- fwungy 4y agoBlacks had their families destroyed by slavery and now again by social programs that reward women for being single mothers.
- p1esk 4y agogenocide of young black men Are you talking about a specific country in Africa? If so, what do you propose? Should we send US military to force a regime change? Because that worked so well in Afghanistan, right?
- fwungy 4y agoRight here in the USA. Our crime statistics show the greatest threat to a young black male is another young black male. Look at the Chicago shooting stats every weekend. Dig deep into gun deaths and you will see that is young men if color shooting andurdering each other in gang and criminal contexts that accounts for most of the deaths. And yet the media can only rise to care about gun deaths when it is white children being murdered. That shows their real values.
- p1esk 4y agoI wouldn’t use the word “genocide” in this context, unless you think what happens to young black men in US is similar to what happened in Rwanda.
- fwungy 4y agoWhat do you call a murder rate of 81.7/100000 for black men aged 15-24? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0021934719895999&ved=2ahUKEwj7ovjK9-v8AhXhKEQIHdIOCZ8QFnoECAsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0vlA-hSenrppHXrcz9wmdt https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
- p1esk 4y agoTo me, a murder rate of 94000/100000 is a genocide, and 81.7/100000 is not.
- fwungy 4y agoMore black men are murdered in the US than white men. But whites outnumber blacks by at least 4:1. Call it whatever you like, but acknowledge that this is horrific. https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in-the-us-by-race-ethnicity-and-gender/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/251877/murder-victims-in...
- p1esk 4y ago
- Gud 4y agoTo be honest, the regime change in Afghanistan was kind of working, at least that's what it looked to me when I was there in 2010. Then the western world lost interest and withdrew
- p1esk 4y agoHow long were we supposed to enforce the regime change there?
- real_jiakai 4y agoThe right thing is let every country run in their way. Don't interfere. It is wise for U.S. army to withdraw from Afghanistan. I resent the Taliban for depriving of the right of women to receive eductaion, but that doesn't mean I support meddling in other countries' internal affairs. Believe in Afghanistan will generate an enlightened regime in the future.
- winternett 4y agoWe've probably only spent 1/10 on it of what we sent to Ukraine last year since the beginning.