It's not. It used to be moreso, but not any more. Still, 'white' ethnocultural ties are much weaker than those for African Americans so the generalization is moot.
What people are trying to point out when they make this kind of argument for African Americans is that black-on-black crime is proportionally excessive.84% of white people are murdered by other white people, WHY AREN'T WHITE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THIS. Don't white lives matter, too? White, please start policing your communities and fix your gahdamn culture can we can stop all this white on white crime.
What? No, that's not what I was saying at all.
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According to FBI numbers from 2014, about 90 percent of black homicide victims were killed by other black people. The “white-on-white” murder rate that same year — homicides in which a white person was killed by another white person — was 82 percent of all murders of white people.Do I need to explain to you how numbers work?Ethnic breakdown of the US:
White alone 72.4%
Black or African American 12.6%
You didn't say it but you sure did imply it.
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"White culture doesn't exist so we can ignore applying the rules to white people"It's not. It used to be moreso, but not any more. Still, 'white' ethnocultural ties are much weaker than those for African Americans so the generalization is moot.
Which makes absolutely no sense unless you're saying that white people are uncultured?
The rates are strickly the number of deaths that occurred. So if 1 purple person was killed last year and was by another purple person then it would mean that 100% of purple murdered were murdered by another purple person. The whole "disproportionate crime" argument doesn't exist in this case. Its not measuring which race commits the most murders...What people are trying to point out when they make this kind of argument for African Americans is that black-on-black crime is proportionally excessive.
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A thread a few weeks ago showed that under 200 people last year died due to unwarranted police aggression. Doesn't strike me as hugely important. If you really wanted to fix police accountability than legalizing victimless crimes is a much better route but neither liberals nor conservatives take that prospect seriously.
Nope. It's like none of you retards can read. Nothing I wrote even talks about black people as a whole. It's just a one-line anecdote about how some people claiming to be fighting for black people (ie, in BLM) try to erase the identity and voice of black people that don't agree with them by slinging racial slurs at them.
Now, go and join Wells in the corner and help him with whipping himself for being white. God forbid you acknowledge that #notall blacks are good people doing good work.
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First, I didn't say it didn't exist. I said ethnic ties to culture among caucasians are much weaker.
Second, even if I did say it didn't exist, that would not necessitate that white people do not have a culture; it would simply suggest that white people don't generally share a culture.
Third, what rules am I ignoring again?
I guess I do need to explain how numbers work.The rates are strickly the number of deaths that occurred. So if 1 purple person was killed last year and was by another purple person then it would mean that 100% of purple murdered were murdered by another purple person. The whole "disproportionate crime" argument doesn't exist in this case. Its not measuring which race commits the most murders...
My argument does not rely on absolute numbers of murders. We can look at those numbers too, but if anything they would favor my position. My argument in this small bit is that black people kill other black people at a rate not only in excess of other ethnic groups (as Wells was happy to point out - by about 10%) but in massive excess when taking into account the proportion of the total US population that belongs to each ethnic group. As in, while African Americans make up only 12.6% of the population, they are responsible for 90% of the murders of African Americans. On the other hand, while Caucasians make up 72.4% of the population, they are responsible for 82% of the murders of Caucasians. There is an ethnically polarized effect here.
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It is important. Every innocent killed by law enforcement is a tragedy that should never have happened. But in comparison to other avoidable losses of life, this one is near the bottom of the list. Again, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fix it - we absolutely should; but let's keep some perspective here.
I'm just saying, that number is statistically insignificant. Far more obscure things kill just as many or more people every year. Coconuts for instance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut
I'm not saying I agree with police brutality but if you really wanted to fix it, legalizing victimless crimes would be the way to go. If you ever watch Cops, most of the people they approach and get aggressive with are drug suspects who may or not be carrying a gun.
So imo as far as solutions go,
Liberty > Racial protesting
Race threads aren't allowed here, and that is what this is. When I have a moment outside of raid I will clean this up.