Maybe you guys should introduce yourselves, to each other.
You didnât make an argument.
I even asked you too but you deflected. You just posted some stats and made jokes about the vice president of profiling.
You also suggested that academics and/or politicians were lying scared about giving the information you were presenting to the public.
I donât have any gold, other than thatâŚ
Itâs a multivariate issue, to be sure.
At some rangesâŚ
Not allâŚ
I could relate stories, but wonât, as it would further muddy the water.
Isnât that what the 13/52 stats are used for ?
To imply black people are disproportionately violent
That would be, obviously, a gross mis-interpretation/dis/misinformation use of that data.
But is has been used by some for that.
As a population, it certainly does imply that. Now when you start to get into ecological fallacy territory is if you go up to a truly random black man and say âyouâre going to commit murder based on these statsâ. That wouldnât exactly make sense if you were talking to Barack Obama or Colion Noire or any other professional or upper class black person, for example.
Itâs just like any other aggregate statistic, you canât make statistical inferences about an individual from it, but you can make inferences about an aggregate. And that inference leads to what has been termed âwhite flightâ.
The key thing is whether their skin tone (so called âraceâ) is what causes the potential violence.
And itâs not, obviously.
By your two own examples.
Poverty doesnât completely explain it either. And even if it did, the policies directed at solving âitâ arenât acting as if poverty is actually the cause either.
And while there is crime in the trailer park, so to speak, there arenât mass lootings of the Winn Dixie or Piggly Wiggly by trailer park Americans like whatâs happening in California to Walgreens, CVS, and now some high end department and boutique stores.
There can and has been, during some natural disasters, where supply chain was seriously disrupted.
Also, @submessenger , give a hoot, and donât you lootâŚ!
I prefer the term ârunning down on the opps.â
Gonzo tagged me in, so here goes.
I live in a trailer park. Itâs probably one of the safest places on earth; being deep in the heart of Texas doesnât hurt. All of your neighbors are 15 feet away, so everyone is in each others shit - sometimes unfortunately literally.
You are probably referring to double-wide rentals, which is an entirely different sort of living, and what the rest of the world considers to be a trailer park. Seriously there are quarter million dollar pieces of absolutely lovely machinery that people live in here. You can get in to a double wide for maybe $40k slightly used, maybe $60k new on the low end, if you have a place to put it. But you are not mobile. Letâs stop calling them âtrailers.â If you need somebody else to pick up your home and move it, itâs not a trailer, itâs a sub-mobile home.
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Excellent informative post.
I suppose Sacramento, LA, and San Francisco are going through a sort of natural disaster right now.
It was a euphemism I made up and a play on âBasketball Americansâ, another euphemism used regularly online.
So you think euphamisms arenât damaging to the people they reference? Or, are you just playing coy? Asking for a friend.
I would fall into the demographic category of what âTrailer Park Americanâ would describe if it was being used seriously. Are you going to get angry about my use of the word redneck, which also would be used to describe me, too? lmao
OH, hell no. Iâm a proud redneck. You may label me that with impunity.