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Originally Posted by roachboy
gee lindy, i'm wicked sorry i transposed the percentage of the african-american male population that's incacerated onto the general population.
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Transposed percentage?
No. Mere transposition does not change a statistic by a factor of .463 (or 21.6 if you go the other direction...) Not even neo-marxo math works that way. The most recent figures I could find show black males incarcerated at a rate of 4,630 per 100,000 of the African-American population. The correct percentage (4.63%) is less than half of even the figure you state in your retreat from the wildly overstated first assertion.
United States - Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs
see also
Race and Prison | Drug War Facts
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and i sure did deserve that little rant of yours.
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Hardly a rant. I was correcting an egregious misstatement of fact. You're just pissed that somebody called you on it. I attempted a little humor by mocking your posting style, did you not like that? Do you like to dish it out, but not like it when it gets thrown back at you?
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never make a mistake in a post, lindy.
i'll be waiting.
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How typical! Send me off to the gulag, never to be heard from again.
If my little post was a rant, this sure looks like a threat. And from a TFP Super Moderator even.
Is it appropriate to ask who will watch the watchers?
Lindy
There's a mistake in this thread. Can anyone find it?
Edit: Oops! I mean that there's a mistake in this post. Can anyone find it?