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Topic	"Black people are 13% of the population and commit 50% of the murders"
averagejoel 11/04/19 12:07:40 PM #20:	Annihilated posted... "Incarceration rates for black people are too high because police are racist!" shows statistics proving otherwise "So what, who cares about statistics anyway? Statistics are racist!" Summary of TC. taken out of context, statistics can indeed be used to perpetuate racism. if you control for poverty, the rates of committing crimes are not significantly different across races. how many people who bring up that first statistic conveniently omit this fact? --- peanut butter and dick <cite>averagejoel posted [p:929652029] in "Blac... [t:78133915]...</cite> <quote>Annihilated posted...</cite> <quote>"Incarceration rates for black people are too high because police are racist!" shows statistics proving otherwise "So what, who cares about statistics anyway? Statistics are racist!" Summary of TC.</quote> taken out of context, statistics can indeed be used to perpetuate racism. if you control for poverty, the rates of committing crimes are not significantly different across races. how many people who bring up that first statistic conveniently omit this fact? --- peanut butter and dick</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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