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Smooth: "But if you look at various posts within this thread, you will see numerous statements assuming his underlying position, black babies commit a disproportionate amount of crime, is accurate and and rearticulating it as a truth claim. I contrast these kinds of responses with your hypothesis, which is testable (and falseified according to the data I am aware of)."Smooth: "But if you look at various posts within this thread, you will see numerous statements assuming his underlying position, black babies commit a disproportionate amount of crime, is accurate and and rearticulating it as a truth claim. I contrast these kinds of responses with your hypothesis, which is testable (and falsified according to the data I am aware of)."
I am not sure what you are saying here. Do you claim that the data that shows blacks in the US commit a disproportionate percentage of crimes is faked?
Or are you saying that “while the statistic of higher black crime rates may be true, the conclusion that eliminating all blacks would reduce crime is nonetheless false.”
If what you mean is that “while it is true that blacks commit a disproportionate percentage of crimes in the US, this is unrelated to race and one consequence of many other social issues.” then I would agree. However, I think this is irrelevant to Bennetts point.
We do agree his point could have been better made without any reference to race, and I’m sure he wishes he had done so.
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