That is not what I said, nor is it true. While males are 97.7% of the NIJ’s Index of Mass Shooters, only about 50% were white which is lower than their proportion of the total population. However, depression amongst that demographic is higher and growing, and mental illnesses correlate highly with those who harm others and themselves, so I’m just saying the Vegas Shooter ticked every box on the proverbial check list.
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Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 months agoWhite men are the most dangerous segment of the population, which is clearly shown by violent crime statistics. There is a reason that rural census tracts (which are overwhelmingly white) are the most dangerous places to live.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 7 months ago
bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Arrests and convictions are not a valid proxy for violent acts or crimes committed. If you knew absolutely anything about this area of study you’d be aware of that. Have fun with your willful ignorance.
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 7 months ago
So the victims say the perpetrator is a white man; police arrest black male. I’ll wait for you to link to the 4 times that’s happened as if it’s a checkmate.
I’m sure you have the added statistics for convictions and they fully support what you’re saying. Pray tell, because your urban vs. rural violence is clearly not supported by the evidence.
If they show the same? Curious about your reasoning for that, that doesn’t sound wildly racist.
At the risk of sounding racist, I think it’s quite obvious that when you buy a foreign people from their homeland as a commodity (sold largely in part by warlords and warring tribes of the same race, by the way), treat them as chattle (literally) and forbid any written or oral history of their culture or familial past, while raping the women and killing the babies or selling them off, creating extreme intergenerational trauma, hatred, and injustice, and then continue treating them like shit even after the law says you can no longer treat them as less than human…
You may have a societal problem on your hands that doesn’t resolve itself in a measly few generations.
We need better support in this country in so many aspects. For women and men of all races and creeds. But until we break away from being an overly materialistic consumerist society, that won’t change. What we don’t need is a distortion of reality to fit a false narrative.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Crime victimization survey is, and can be used in conjunction with crime justice system statistics.
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Thanks for being reasonably-minded.
If nothing else, I’m finding discussions like these helpful in curating my Lemmy experience. If someone is spreading misinformation, ignoring evidence to the contrary, and refuses to provide an argument as to why they feel the way to do, even if it’s only a rationalization, then it’s clear they’re not (yet) capable of debate with critical thought and without emotions and social conditioning blinding them. I’ve never been one to block people but Lemmy is infested with groupthink in a way I’d never thought possible, it’s beyond reddit.
Also any snark is highly frowned upon, unless it’s in favor of the groupthink, so that’s my own fault.