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the Temple:
My point really is that the numbers can be cooked all sorts of ways. Lies, damn lies and statistics.
You've definitely proven the numbers can be cooked.
Originally
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the Temple:
But there's an implicit victim narrative in the blacks kill twice as many white thing, thats at best disingenuos, and at worst dog whistle racism.
Is that kind of like playing the race card?
Originally
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the Temple:
If you're going to play the victim, then use the victim stats, and they mean any given black guy is five times more likely to be shot by a white guy than the other way around.
New DOJ stats:
White violent offenders pick black victims 3.6% of the time.
Black violent offenders pick white victims 38.6% of the time.
http://www.amren.com/...n-race-and-violent-crime/
"...when whites commit violence they choose fellow whites as victims 82.4 percent of the time, and almost never attack blacks. Blacks attack whites almost as often as they attack blacks..."