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by farmaway 1212 days ago
It's impolitic to mention, but black Americans commit most murders in the US despite their small share of the population. Black American women are more likely to commit murder than white American men, a sex reversal unique between large racial groups in the developed world. An average black man in the US is an order of magnitude more likely to commit violent crime than a non-black man. This effect is not fully explained by socioeconomic differences.

The overwhelming majority of black Americans are not criminals. It's important not to draw the wrong conclusions here. But the small percentage of black Americans who are criminals make up a proportionally much greater share of the whole. The reasons for this are complex and controversial, but it's some opaque combination of history + discrimination + nature + nurture.

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I like how you came back to drop this nugget days later

> The overwhelming majority of black Americans are not criminals. It's important not to draw the wrong conclusions here.

So what conclusion are you trying to draw from 1% of a population?

White males commit an absurd percentage of pedophilia comparable to their slice of the population, how can we start drawing conclusions on that?