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minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoThis is tracking who died, not who fired the shot.
minus-squareweker01@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down9·edit-22 days agoJep, like I said did not look too closely into it. Anyway, the point is that taking statistics in a vacuum can lead to strange conclusions. Btw the gist I was going for, that statistically black men make up a disproportionate chunk of the homicide perpetrators in the US is a fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States Still misleading on its own as it does not give insight into the cause of the discrepancy. Racists use this all the time to justify bigotry.
This is tracking who died, not who fired the shot.
Jep, like I said did not look too closely into it. Anyway, the point is that taking statistics in a vacuum can lead to strange conclusions.
Btw the gist I was going for, that statistically black men make up a disproportionate chunk of the homicide perpetrators in the US is a fact.
Still misleading on its own as it does not give insight into the cause of the discrepancy. Racists use this all the time to justify bigotry.