Author Topic: The sensitive redneck (Read 1098 times)

Curval · « **Reply #45 on:** March 13, 2006, 09:04:27 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
curval... where did I ever blame any problem (much less societies which I care not at all about) on "colored folks"?

Gun crime. "Nuff said.

lazs2 · « **Reply #46 on:** March 13, 2006, 02:44:43 PM »

curval... If I said that colored folk commit 48% of all homicides even tho they are, what, 15% of the population? how could you not say that colored folk were a main cause of gun crime in the U.S.?

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm#ovrace

The rate is like 5 times higher than white. This is a very real problem that can be attributed to one race.

I care not why this is so.... only that it is. I find someone saying that it is not true to be very disturbing. To come up with half baked apologist theories is only slightly less disturbing.

Facts are facts.

you could also look at who is killing who.... look at the site. It is black who are killing black.... they also kill whites.... very seldom do whites kill colored folk.

That may not be what you want to hear but take it up with the government site (BOJ) that printed the bad news or the FBI that gathered it.

Rednecks seem downright saintly in that light.

lazs

Curval · « **Reply #47 on:** March 13, 2006, 03:14:23 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
curval... where did I ever blame any problem (much less societies which I care not at all about) on "colored folks"?
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So you "DO" blame this problem on coloured folk?

phookat · « **Reply #48 on:** March 13, 2006, 03:18:48 PM »

lazs-- this sort of relationship may indeed exist, but there is an implication of drawing a causal relationship through correlation that is invalid. For example, you could do a study that finds that 75% of serial killers are double-jointed. But it would be a fallacy to claim that double-jointedness causes serial murders.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #49 on:** March 13, 2006, 03:20:32 PM »

I cannot believe a thread, started with jokes (good ones too!) got to be so putrid. Lighten up folks. Politics has a place, but this thread was not one of them. Sheesh.