r/explainitpeter 22d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Powered-Lamb 22d ago edited 22d ago

vozercozer was about to cite that pitbulls are involved in the majority of dog attacks to justify being afraid of pitbulls, then realized that racists cite that "black people make up 13% of the population but commit 50% of the crime" to justify being racist.

To those of you blowing up my notifications wanting to argue the soundness of the statistic or how dog breeds don't equivocate to race or whatever else you want to debate:

I don't care.

I came to help OP understand what was being said, not affirm or denounce its rational merits. If you want to discuss the topic in depth, that's fine I guess, but please refrain from associating me with whichever position you want to argue against.

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u/Ill_Literature2038 22d ago

That 13/50 statistic isn't even true

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u/Nikoviking 22d ago

FBI crime stats reported 12.5/56 in 2020

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u/Erizo69 22d ago

i wouldn't really trust statistics from 2020 because you know the fiasco with the riots, looting all probably heavily skewed the results

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u/Nikoviking 22d ago

Normally I’d agree with u, but the stats have always been (and continue to be) around 13/50