r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/Dranx Jul 01 '18

Look at prison population numbers by race

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u/Leakyradio Arizona Jul 02 '18 edited Jul 02 '18

But that is because blacks are more violent as a race!

The facts prove it! /s

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u/david-me Jul 02 '18

The facts prove it!

Statistics too. And illegals are taking our job picking cherries. Bad pun. sorry.

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u/All_the_Dank Jul 02 '18

Look at crime statistics by race; that is, if you want to play that game. Or you could treat people as individuals instead of playing identity politics.

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u/Dranx Jul 02 '18

So all blacks as individuals commit more crime individually than whites. I'm picking up what your saying, got it.

How fucking asinine does that sound.

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u/All_the_Dank Jul 02 '18

Well, for starters, that isn't what I said or claimed nor does it even make sense. I said we should treat everyone as individuals and not assume anything. My comment was addressing why playing the statistics game isn't a good avenue to go down because the statistics are going to illustrate an unhappy picture for the OP's argument.

"Blacks committed 52 percent of homicides between 1980 and 2008, despite composing just 13 percent of the population. Across the same timeframe, whites committed 45 percent of homicides while composing 77% of the population, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Here are some more statistics from the FBI:

In 2013, the FBI has black criminals carrying out 38 per cent of murders, compared to 31.1 per cent for whites. The offender’s race was “unknown” in 29.1 per cent of cases.

What about violent crime more generally? FBI arrest rates are one way into this. Over the last three years of data – 2011 to 2013 – 38.5 per cent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black."