http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027077919 Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:01 PM
ghostsinthemachine (631 posts)
Don't you ever say 'black on black crime' again
Ever.
Don't say it.
Don't think it.
Don't write it.
Don't spell it on Scrabble.
Don't even see what other words you can make with the letters that form black on black crime.
It is the dumbest, most ridiculously racist phrase used to describe crime in the world right now.
Have you ever heard anybody talk about white on white crime? Have you ever seen any white folk march about white crime, have conferences or gatherings focused on white on white crime? Don't lie—you know you haven't.
Almost all crime in America is committed intra-racially. That is to say, the overwhelming majority of crimes are committed by a racial group against that same group.
Yet, the only race-based phrase to ever describe crime is black on black.
Did you know....
Whites are 6 times as likely to be murdered by another white person as by a black person; and overall, the percentage of white Americans who will be murdered by a black offender in a given year is only 2/10,000ths of 1 percent (0.0002). This means that only 1 in every 500,000 white people will be murdered by a black person in a given year. Although the numbers of black-on-white homicides are higher than the reverse (447 to 218 in 2010), the 218 black victims of white murderers is actually a higher percentage of the black population interracially killed than the 447 white victims of black murderers as a percentage of the white population.
In fact, any given black person is 2.75 times as likely to be murdered by a white person as any given white person is to be murdered by an African American.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/14/1412131/-Don-t-you-ever-say-black-on-black-crime-again?detail=facebook
Truth and reality are holy water to a leftist.
Response to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:04 PM
ram2008 (446 posts)
1. I'm not seeing how it's a racist phrase
It is a very serious issue that deserves attention, calling people racist who want to help solve it helps no one.
You are living in the real world.
Unacceptable
Response to ram2008 (Reply #1)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:23 PM
Star Member Fred Sanders (15,584 posts)
4. What are "white on brown" or "white on red" crimestats? Now do you see how the term is racist??
Honestly, I would like your reply.
"I don't know how it is a racist phrase"....wow. It was just explained to you!
If that is the level of understanding of even a few Sanders supporters or anyone that lives and breathes.....then I got nothing else to add.
See?
Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #4)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:25 PM
ram2008 (446 posts)
5. There are statistics for that
Inter and intra racial stats exist, their existence doesn't mean anyone's racist.
Response to ram2008 (Reply #5)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:28 PM
Star Member Fred Sanders (15,584 posts)
7. You are again missing the point, or not wanting to see the point, because that some guy can figure out the stats is not the point. Try again.
For the point, please re-read the OP...or for the first time.
We don`t need no stimkin facts!
Response to Fred Sanders (Reply #7)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 06:21 PM
Star Member Ed Suspicious (4,615 posts)
44. You feel there is not value in understanding the statistical implication of who perpetrates and who
is victimized by crime? I'm not sure I do either, but I haven't given it enough thought. I won't dismiss it out of hand.
Response to Ed Suspicious (Reply #44)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:12 PM
Star Member Fred Sanders (15,584 posts)
67. You feel there is value in constructing strawmen questions?
Good mole or actual leftist,you decide.
Response to ram2008 (Reply #1)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 05:33 PM
pnwmom (62,507 posts)
9. The people who use that dehumanizing phrase don't want to HELP.
They're trying to minimize their own responsibility and shift it to black people.
Yeah,I made the black guy knife/shoot the other black guy because I am a cracka.
Imbecile retard.
Response to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 06:28 PM
monicaangela (18 posts)
47. The term is gut wrenching and does appear to have racial connotations
but as the article states, crime is more likely to be perpetrated on those in close proximity. If the nation was more integrated maybe crime would be more difficult to classify in this manner. I wonder if the recent discovery of so many white policemen killing African Americans was added to the equation when whoever did this study did the study. I also wonder if the information they were looking for when they did the study was available to them, and I wonder if that information were known, would it have changed their statistics. I personally believe that the info of which I speak would skew those numbers to no end and therefore disqualify the term.
Response to monicaangela (Reply #47)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 08:30 PM
Igel (22,436 posts)
109. Not everything racial is racist.
We're terrified of being called the word "racist," against there is no defense. The best you can hope for is to ignore it--the more you protest, the more you lose.
Sometimes it's just plain idiocy to confuse the two. There was a hypertension drug that passed the FDA tests. But once in use, it was found to be fairly ineffective. They squared the circle by looking at the data and found that the drug was effective among African-Americans. The drug was useless with whites and Asians. The first impulse, the first reports, declared the study racist because it said there was a difference between blacks and whites in the US. This was pure knee-jerk mindless drivel of the highest order: The "racism" pointed out a biological, gene-based difference that was targeted by a specific chemical when in the human body, a difference that had the not trivial promise of saving lives. Why? Because it's also true that the AfAm community has a higher hypertension rate. And, yes, this simple factual, true observation has also been called racist because it pointed out something racial. (Last I heard, preliminary evidence showed that this was also true of sub-Saharan Africans who adopted a Western, high-salt diet, but that was preliminary.)
We also twist ourselves into little knotted nappies every time SNAP and other entitlement programs crop up because we're afraid of self-appointed spokesmen who are concerned about image. Now it's inflammatory and racist to point out that AfAm folk disproportionately receive SNAP; at one point 45% or so of welfare recipients were AfAm. Now it's progressive to point out the same fact, because it's prima facie evidence that something needs to be done to alleviate poverty. Same fact. Now it's racist, now it's progressive. Depends not on what use you make of it. What matters is what the self-appointed Judge of the universe condemning or praising you suspects you really intend by mentioning the fact--is it this 30000 Hz dog whistle that only dogs hear? Or is your heart pure, cleansed of all sin? Because you can't be trusted to mean what you say you mean.
That said, there are lots of classes of crimes. One is called "stranger homicide." Most homicides are between people who know each other. Stranger homicides are homicides in which there's no (known) connection between the killer and the killee.
AA offenders commit about half of stranger homicides. 13% of the population, 49% or so of offenders. This is a fact; it is not racist, it is not progressive, it is not reactionary. It merely is. However, like a lot of other categories, it is skewed. If the homicide rate were constant across all racial groups, it would not be nearly that high.
enjoy your stay,it is not a politically beneficial argument to the left who are content with blacks killing each other as long as they vote the way the white liberal elite dictate they should.
Response to HereSince1628 (Reply #52)
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 09:26 PM
Travis_0004 (3,134 posts)
137. Here

Response to ghostsinthemachine (Original post)
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:28 PM
Zenlitened (9,473 posts)
74. It's a right-wing talking point. And right-wingers are racists...
...practically by definition. So yes, it's a racist term. The use, meaning and intent are obvious, every time.
Yet day after day, conservatives prove the adage, "Stupid people think the rest of us are as stupid as they are.
You just proved how stupid you are.