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foolm0r0n posted...

HotDogButts posted...

Except they're not being ignored in my situation at all. Factors not being ignored: Neighborhood violence rate (highest), time of day (middle of night), population density (isolated).

Then why does the blackness matter?

ok so you said this
HotDogButts posted...

The race doesn't actually matter here, the statistics do.

So what the hell are you talking about now? If the race doesn't matter then it's not racist. Your example is entirely irrelevant. What is your point even?

Let's say there's a city that's 50/50 black/white with lots of murders. 70% of murders are committed by black men, 30% by white men. There's a white man on the left side of the road, a black man on the right side. Which side do you walk down?

At 2AM, with no one else on the street, alone, the rational decision is the side with the white man. Because I am already on high alert given the contributing factors. Now replay it in a situation where I'm not on high alert to begin with, I stay wherever I am, because I have judged the situation to be unlikely to result in harm, and so the fact that black men commit violent crime at 2x the rate of white men becomes insignificant to me, as it is generally a harmless situation.

You're being pedantic about my "the race doesn't matter" bit. It's not any one SPECIFIC race that matters, but if there is a high incidence of violence from a specific race in a specific place then yes, whatever that race is, in that place, is a worthwhile factor to consider in me potentially being brought to harm.
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