Quote (thesnipa @ Feb 23 2023 10:47am)
Strange to me how black crime statistics are seen as a checkmate for right wingers.
impoverished areas have more crime, black areas are more systematically oppressed, and have more crime.
its not even that black neighborhoods are overpoliced, that's one of the more spurious claims of left winged cj reform people. it's that the lack of change in those neighborhoods means they will never change.
increased education budgets and tax breaks for economic development are nice, but they're band aids on a gaping wound. and if someone proposed to fix it 50 years ago for 100x cheaper than it will cost now the same people who blandly post black crime stats would have called it communism and anti white racism, just as they do today.
This is largely the counter-argument to the prevailing mainstream beliefs that looks to externalize all blame to some other group, whites, cops, system racism, whatever. How many mainstream articles do you see highlighting factual crime statistics, because literally I don't think I've seen one in many years. You don't even really see it even in mainstream 'right' publications like Fox. Meanwhile there is an endless churn of media telling how the world is unfair, how black crime is really not the perps fault, how it's all of these derivative reasons why things are the way they are.
I don't think many on the right refuse to acknowledge the socioeconomic reasons that obviously exist and at least in part lead to these shitty outcomes. What most have a problem with is this wholesale externalization shifting of the blame wholly to the one side.
During my graduate degree, i had a lot of friends from Asia, mostly India and China. We don't live too far from NYC and it was really interesting how baffled they were by their experience in the city when visiting. Being verbally assaulted by black dudes on the subway, intimidated, and in some few cases even being physically assaulted. I remember one conversation I was having with this Indian friend and he was sharing this experience of his first time in NYC. Guy was completely baffled by the abuse he experienced on the subway. Us natives can try to dissect and shift blame all we want, it won't change his visceral experience. We've been conditioned to 'explain away' particularly in universities so it's reflexive and natural for us, but when an outsider sees some of this shit you can't force how they quietly will form an opinion about certain groups after their first hand experiences. They may acknowledge some of these arguments maybe even believe them but ultimately they will instinctively not want to live in these neighborhoods or interact with these people.