Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623)

• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not making a value judgement. I’m explaining why New York City’s murder rate is so much higher than London’s. It’s because NYC has a population of white and Asian people who are as safe as Europeans and another, de facto segregated population of black and Hispanic people who are much less safe.

  I presume that a big part of the reason why things are the way they are is that society places a higher value on white people’s lives, but I’m not doing that. Explaining isn’t the same as justifying.

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  • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why bring it up at all then? The topic was New York being unsafe, you come rushing it explaining it’s because of the brown people.

    Welp. Even though at this point I’m leaning towards “very clumsy with words” rather than “disgusting racist”, I don’t really have much interest in talking to you further.

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