[faitswulff]

I'd almost rather flag this submission than deal with commenters seeking to justify the structural iniquities and ending their train of thought with the simple correlation between black neighborhoods and crime. Press on! Why is there more crime? Why is there more poverty? What are the structural reasons for the two?

[lightgreen]

What do you think the structural reasons are?

> I'd almost rather flag this submission than deal with commenters seeking

That approach worries me. People are discussing trying to figure out what’s going on. It is not hate or spam. Some make mistakes. Some opinions you might disagree with or even don’t like. If you don’t want to participate, then don’t. But why trying to block others from discussing the issue?

These attempts to block free speech are very worrisome. Let’s keep at least hn free from rightthink moderation.

[faitswulff]

It's already been flagged, that's why. It's inevitable. Anything to do with race gets flagged mindlessly on HN.

[lilbaine]

Agreed

[Frost1x]

People tend to think of only 1st order effects. They don't tend to think in 2nd, 3rd, ..., nth order effects--not that it's easy to quantify the effects, but it's usually not difficult to see/imagine those potential relationships.

This is why a lot of rhetoric in general is so effective: it prays on focusing on simple first order effects instead of attempting to look at issues holistically. I'm not saying hollistic analysis is simple--far from it--but one needs to be aware that life is really complex with a awhole lot of gray areas.