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bresqa
6y ago
> Saying that it may be true is accepting the possibility :) Only if you completely ignore the other part of that same sentence :) > This I have to confess I don't understand. The site is trying to answer that exact question, and
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bresqa
6y ago
The entire point is "in disproportionately higher numbers" related to what? Just the entire population or their ratio in the total number or cases? If you believe the number of convictions makes a difference there - you're we
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bresqa
6y ago
Where did I accept the possibility of police killings being skewed by racism? That might or might not be true - but I wasn't really looking at that. All I did was just interpret the existing numbers and correlate them to other statisti
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bresqa
6y ago
Your comment is exactly why I find these topics difficult - responses come back disproportionally emotional and as you put it "hostile" in relation to (what I believe to be) a pretty neutral comment. For one - I believe there is n
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bresqa
6y ago
I always struggle with racial (and religious) topics - everything about it is so emotionally charged and a lot of the time I find that data is presented superficially and can support any claim you'd like it to support. I'd like to