Anecdotes are not data
I grew up in a ghetto neighborhood where whites are a minority, my first hand experience supersedes your stats
HailSeitan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I grew up in a ghetto neighborhood where whites are a minority, my first hand experience supersedes your stats
Anecdotes are not data
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe you can’t be around minorities because your racism shows. I too lived in poor inner city neighborhoods and got along without issue.
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com 1 month ago
Lol i did fine and i was married to a a black queen for 7 years and i would battle rap you into dust. My main commentary was on crime and the lack of responsibility in battling it, also to ignore the crime in these communities is enabling it, that’s the main criticism of define the police and so new age justice reform. Everyday i read stores about horrible criminals getting off, early release, slaps on the wrist only to commit more crime. The last career a person should have the ability to flourish in is a career in crime particularly violent crime. Idgaf tbh about a walgreens going under but when peoples lives hang in the balance then it becomes nothing more than accepting what is evil
ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You blamed the people and didn’t once mention the very real racists in power who for centuries have shaped policy to hurt minority communities. Prison reforms no one because they give it to private corporations who need recidivism for their business to flourish. As someone already said they cut mental health and homeless support funding in this country drastically. They also cut a host of other social programs that offer alternatives to turning to crime. There’s always been career criminals in every society, but the vast majority of criminals are people at the end of their ropes looking for a way out. If the government and society cut the programs giving hope and an alternative to crime, the criminals looking for soldiers will always fill in the gap. Despite all that there’s still a lot of statistical proof that crime has been dropping over the last 4 years. Most likely due to a lot of measures that were pumped money into poor communities during the pandemic. We spend a ridiculous amount of money on our prison industrial complex that only presses pause on problems. A sense of community and a real responsibility to the people of that community is going to stop way more criminals than a cage.
Snatchdaddy@hilariouschaos.com 1 month ago
That’s a lot to digest, but I would be willing to get into a respectful debate with you if you would like where we can discuss various things concerning crime, particularly in America and if you want, we can eat a branch over into the United Kingdom, of which I followed a little bit But I think it would be a healthy debate if we started over in a new post and we can address some of the things that I said as well that maybe deserve some criticism, are you up for that?