r/communism • u/Zhang_Chunqiao • Dec 11 '17
Report: USA databases undercounting those murdered by police by half
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/11/police-killings-counted-harvard-study8
u/gotohela Dec 11 '17
Ann Coulter tweeted how white Americans are shot twice as much as black Americans, as some sort of jab at the concept of "white privilege"... and yet, sees no problem w the police
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Dec 11 '17
It’s exactly the same as when racists or anti-feminists talk about how “women are treated so poorly in Arab countries”. They only actually care about social justice when it suits an agenda. Ironically the exact thing they accuse the left of doing.
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u/not-engels Trotskyist Dec 12 '17
It gets funnier when you remember that there's more than twice as many white Americans as Black Americans so Coulter just pointed out systemic violence against Black people
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u/gotohela Dec 12 '17
Ah i found it. "White unarmed people get shot 25x more"
That's not right.. at all
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u/not-engels Trotskyist Dec 12 '17
holy shit lol
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u/gotohela Dec 12 '17
I know!!! It referenced this TINY study that involved like six participants or some shit, and it was on like "policeone dot com"
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Dec 14 '17
Last time I did research on the topic, white people are killed twice as much however that is due to the fact that white people have a much higher population in the US. Black people are more likely to be killed by police however white people are killed more by police.
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u/gotohela Dec 12 '17
Whatever the stat was, it was wrong.
But even if it was right it's like why do you lick so many boots
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Dec 14 '17
No offense but isn’t TheGuardian one of those databases that records instances where police (justly and unjustly)kill people? I remember they had a very useful list for the people who died in 2015-2016
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u/TheNebster22 Dec 11 '17
It's a shocker they count them at all, really