Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 04:03:29 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: "Per Capita"-- A White Supremacist Conspiracy? Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <0B2dnf_k4IafGY37nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> <20240405223346.00002d1f@example.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 64 Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:03:29 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3375 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3f40a86dc59b0$5564$3037545$10d55a65@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3776 On 4/5/24 9:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Apr 5, 2024 at 7:33:46 PM PDT, "Rhino" > wrote: > >> On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:06:42 +0000 >> BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> So apparently there's an entire sub-community on the Twitters and the >>> Facebooks of black people who seriously believe that the concept of >>> 'per capita' is a fake idea invented by white people to make black >>> people look bad: >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCvluwbPC6U >>> >>> The hashtags and groups have thousands of subscribers, all of whom >>> echo the idea that white people invented 'per capita' to >>> illegitimately claim violence and unwed motherhood and drug dealing >>> and murder are worse in the black neighborhoods than in white ones. >>> >>> I guess they got tired of being shown FBI crime stats that prove >>> black crime is staggeringly higher PER CAPITA than white crime, so >>> they had to invent a way to discredit the entire concept of >>> percentages. >>> >>> https://ibb.co/QDqtCMT >>> >>> I guess this is the new 'progressive' anti-racist math I've heard so >>> much about. >>> >> Wow, that really IS an appalling misunderstanding of the entire concept >> of "per capita". I wish I could say I was shocked but the educational >> system has gotten so bad it really seems inevitable that things would >> deteriorate that far. >> >> I've read that the "woke"/DEI crowd is starting to get its hooks in >> STEM subjects now and has actually insisted that 1+1 does NOT equal 2. >> I have no desire to go anywhere near a bridge built by an engineer who >> doesn't recognize that 1+1 DOES equal 2, let alone cross that bridge. > > Any coincidence that we've had a rash of planes falling apart in the skies > lately? I don't speak horseshit, how many are in "a rash?" >> I'd fully expect that bridge to fall down at literally any moment and >> land on everyone even standing or driving nearby. I wouldn't get in a >> car or plane built by such a person and I wouldn't accept surgery from >> a doctor who believed that nonsense. >> >> These "woke" idiots seem to have decided that the world operates >> strictly on the basis of wishful thinking. They believe that anything >> they declare to be true is true, just because they say it and they say >> it because they *want* it to be true. Reality has no place in their >> world view. If they think they are qualified to build bridges, then >> they are, even if they never went to high school and never cracked a >> math or engineering book, just like they think they can be female even >> if they were born with testicles. > > >