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On 4/5/24 9:55 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 5, 2024 at 7:33:46 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:06:42 +0000
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> 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.
> 
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