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> You can argue about whether this is racism or classism. Or it could just be avoiding high-crime areas. Given the vastly different propensities of people of v
by newnewnew 13y ago
> You can argue about whether this is racism or classism.
Or it could just be avoiding high-crime areas. Given the vastly different propensities of people of various races to commit crime, avoiding crime tends to make you look racist[1]
[1] http://www.ronunz.org/2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/ http://www.ronunz.org/2013/07/20/race-and-crime-in-america/
- sangnoir 13y agoYou can still argue your assertion further: you seem to be declaring that race (and not class) is the driver for crime. Race and class (in America) are strongly linked that when a person declares one thing (and not the other) as the cause, it tells you a lot about the person.
- newnewnew 13y agoIt looks to me like race matters more than class. Poor whites and hispanics don't commit nearly as much crime as black citizens, even though they are numerically greater. 6% of the US population (black males) commits 53% of the murder, more than the other 94% of the population combined. There is something uniquely wrong in the black American community. Whites who notice it are called "racist". Blacks who notice it (like Bill Cosby) are called race-traitors or Uncle Toms. So nobody much cares about addressing anti-social behavior, because it simply cannot be discussed.