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Hematomato on scored.co
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>This number for Whites is actually lower than it is for other races, say, Blacks, so I don't see what your point is since as you say everything is just statistics.
My point is that no one keeps track of "black-on-white murder" in terms of where it ranks on the most likely causes of death, but given that homicide in general is #17, and roughly 80% of homicides of white people are committed by other white people, there are probably at least *fifty* things out there that it's more rational to be concerned about than getting murdered by a black guy.
>You don't get to claim ownership over death itself and reduce it to statistics so you can be choosy when there's death.
If we're playing that game, I could just tell you that the only murder I care about is Scott Peterson's 2002 murder of Laci Peterson; that I don't care about any statistic you can show me; and that society's first priority needs to be to protect people like Laci from people like Scott because that's my personal concern and you don't get to reduce death to statistics.
That would be nonsense, right? And yet it's exactly the game you're playing.
What you're saying is: "I know full well that my family members are more likely to die from heart disease, and cancer, and accidents, and stroke, and COPD, and dementia, and diabetes, and kidney disease, and liver disease, and suicide, and cirrhosis, and influenza, and hypertension, and septecemia, and Parkinson's, and respiratory disease, and congential malformations, and pneumoitis, and aortic aneurysm, and in childbirth, and by being murdered by a white person, then they are to be murdered by a black person. But I don't *care* about any of those other things. I only care about the idea of being murdered by a black person, because I'm very racist and I'm looking for solidarity with other irrational racists."
Yeah, me personally, I'll put my energy toward dementia research, because that's a *far* worse way to die than murder, and I've actually lost loved ones to it and will probably lose more.
And I'll also take a pass on making my whole personality about my skin color too, thanks. You're not in my fucking tribe. I don't want you associating yourself with me.
My point is that no one keeps track of "black-on-white murder" in terms of where it ranks on the most likely causes of death, but given that homicide in general is #17, and roughly 80% of homicides of white people are committed by other white people, there are probably at least *fifty* things out there that it's more rational to be concerned about than getting murdered by a black guy.
>You don't get to claim ownership over death itself and reduce it to statistics so you can be choosy when there's death.
If we're playing that game, I could just tell you that the only murder I care about is Scott Peterson's 2002 murder of Laci Peterson; that I don't care about any statistic you can show me; and that society's first priority needs to be to protect people like Laci from people like Scott because that's my personal concern and you don't get to reduce death to statistics.
That would be nonsense, right? And yet it's exactly the game you're playing.
What you're saying is: "I know full well that my family members are more likely to die from heart disease, and cancer, and accidents, and stroke, and COPD, and dementia, and diabetes, and kidney disease, and liver disease, and suicide, and cirrhosis, and influenza, and hypertension, and septecemia, and Parkinson's, and respiratory disease, and congential malformations, and pneumoitis, and aortic aneurysm, and in childbirth, and by being murdered by a white person, then they are to be murdered by a black person. But I don't *care* about any of those other things. I only care about the idea of being murdered by a black person, because I'm very racist and I'm looking for solidarity with other irrational racists."
Yeah, me personally, I'll put my energy toward dementia research, because that's a *far* worse way to die than murder, and I've actually lost loved ones to it and will probably lose more.
And I'll also take a pass on making my whole personality about my skin color too, thanks. You're not in my fucking tribe. I don't want you associating yourself with me.