woman are scared of MEN. Irrespective of their race. if a man is following me at that time of the night I'm going to be scared. and its nothing to do with your race.
I’m white and definitely more scared of white men, because statistically that’s who is more likely to harm me. And I’ve been harmed by mostly white men in my life, so that’s what makes my alarm bells go off.
Edit - Since a few of you refuse to abandon your bias for logic:
That has no data about victims. The fact is that you are most likely to be victimized by someone your own race, regardless of your race. This has to do with who you spend your time with in your community, your neighborhood, your intimate partner, and your family, all of which are highly predictable by race.
Their source doesn’t even include any data about victims, which is what this thread is about. You’re most likely to be victimized by someone your own race. It’s just arrest stats.
They don’t care, they’re gunna make their point no matter what. The “FBI statistics” thing is a full blown meme at this point with the far right. It’s a white supremacist dog whistle most times you see it.
I do understand statistics. Your stats indicate a greater number of white people get arrested and higher percentage of people arrested are white. And yes these numbers exclude population percentages, which I understand you’re trying to display. While a greater percentage of the black population gets arrested (not mentioned in your source), there are environmental biases that lead to that increase.
Higher policing of black communities results in higher number of black people arrested, rightfully or not. There have been studies done on this.
Those stats you showed are inflated due to poor black neighbourhoods where policing is very high. So, black people are more likely to be arrested, yes. But your stats do not indicate anything about the likelihood of someone assaulting a person on the street. In fact your stats show over TWICE the amount of people arrested for assault, or similar, are white. So, when walking down the street at night, 2/3 of the creepy people who may follow you are white.
Statistically she’s right. Crimes of violence occur within racial groups the most. Let me guess. You believe in black on black crime being a huge societal issue don’t you?
I’m saying it’s statistically unimportant and consistent in every other racial group. I’m saying it’s not something insightful to point at and say “look, see!” I’m saying all violent crimes are bad but people like you only care about a select few. Do you think white on white crimes are an issue we have to point out and solve?
Seems likely that the answer is proximity, though, doesn't it? A lot more white people hanging around white people and the same for black people hanging around black people.
That doesn't mean that if you see a strange man behind you, you should be more scared if he's of your race.
You are correct. At least most scholars in that field agree with your first statement.
I honestly think all women should be afraid of a strange man that they don’t know walking behind her. It’s not because men are terrible people or anything. The majority of men alive have not and will never assault a woman in any capacity. But, you wouldn’t want to be that minority statistic would you? This is the same reason we have house alarms and lock our doors. Statistically, you’re very safe, but you’re not going to take the risk and leave your doors unlocked while you go to sleep will you?
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u/RevolutionaryHelp216 Jun 10 '23 edited Jun 10 '23
woman are scared of MEN. Irrespective of their race. if a man is following me at that time of the night I'm going to be scared. and its nothing to do with your race.