I may be "just a Canadian," but from where I'm sitting, it's obvious that black on black crime in Dem cities is a bigger problem than any other category of violence including white police on black civilian violence, and ... - The Donald

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I may be "just a Canadian," but from where I'm sitting, it's obvious that black on black crime in Dem cities is a bigger problem than any other category of violence including white police on black civilian violence, and ...

posted 284 days ago by Wexit-Delecto 284 days ago by Wexit-Delecto +174 / -0

... that such high rates of crime are intentionally cultivated so that the anger on that topic can be channelled into race wars at election time and, generally, into anti 2A sentiment.

But what the fuck do I know, I'm just a rural redneck Canadian.

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– zoober_floober 2 points 284 days ago +2 / -0

The most fundamental relationship between groups of humans is based on violence. If it is present, the groups move apart; if it is absent, they work together.

There are countless groups in the United States who have cultures and values that aren't even Western, never mind American, and everyone gets along fine. It doesn't matter if the differences are racial, ethnic, social, cultural, or religious.

Introduce violence into the equation, though, and the dynamic changes instantly. Measures will always be taken by the more peaceful group to preemptively defend itself from the more violent one. In the USA, those social measures have come to be known as "discrimination".

Such a response has existed since Man first walked upright. Survival begins and ends with violence, and no amount of denial, preaching, shaming, bargaining, pleading, or wishful thinking will overcome that biological programming.

In the United States, blacks (regardless of where they were born, or whether they are US citizens) comprise approximately 13.5% of the population, and males between the ages of 15 and 45 approximately 3.5%. More than half of the USA's violent crime is committed by that 3.5%.

If the disproportionate violent crime committed by that group were to suddenly return to the national average, the behavior displayed by the rest of society towards it---unequal treatment, suspicion, hostility, and so forth---would, over time, drop to the same level as for any other group of people living in America who can be identified at a glance or with a word: Chinese, Koreans, Sikhs, Poles, Jews, Irish, Germans, Swedes, Italians, Norwegians, Amish, Mennonites, etc.

That's simply how humans work. Their default is "You leave me alone and I'll leave you alone."

That obvious truth isn't politically popular, though, because a few powerful people who make their living by starting fires and fanning the flames don't want the situation to improve.

In fact, by the 21st century, those outrage profiteers have been so successful that the behavior of the group they exploit---the disproportionate violence that not only must be addressed, but must be addressed first---isn't even discussable. In fact, increasingly, the truth of its existence can't even be acknowledged.