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Mass shootings are insignificant in the total amount of shootings.

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states

2016: 38,658 2015: 36,247 2014: 33,599 2013: 33,636 2012: 33,563 2011: 32,351 2010: 31,672 2009: 31,347 2008: 31,593

Which year have mass shootings by whites amounted to at least 1% of total gun deaths?

As for Death Metal bands, how many of the performers in this genre have been arrested for gun-related crimes?

How many were killed by guns and went on to achieve cult status?

> are largely produced by white people/entities.

Jewish, not white. Jewish culture is distinct from generic white culture. You can get away with a lot with Jewish privilege, like Bill Maher's casual N-word use on television. A random white John Doe's career would have been done right there.

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I think you're completely failing to get the point. It's not about statistics, it's about perception (I wonder what percentage of Black Americans actually listen to rap music or have anything to do with 'gangsta' culture). In this case your perceptions are warped because of your own biases. I'm also glad the poster above brought up the example of mass-market movies. Porn is probably another good example of something that no one conflates with 'white culture' even if there are seemingly good reasons to. There are many other aspects of mass culture in the west that are viewed very negatively elsewhere. The poster certainly makes a good point about mass shootings as well, whatever the percentages are they certainly make a huge bang on public perception. We can argue stats all day but what constitutes 'good' culture or 'bad' culture is your own subjective opinion and your (racial) bias makes you blind to one and hyper-sensitive about others

edit - Also by making that distinction btw 'jewish' and 'white' culture you're very plainly showing where you're coming from.

edit - I just took a look through your profile and now I'm not surprised at all. A very common theme emerges lol. You can disregard everything I said above since it won't make sense to you either way

My great grandma was jewish.

I'm not white, I'm a minority in the country of my birth.

Do you have any arguments or are these ad hominems[0] all you got?

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

"Do you even have arguments..."

Can you even read? Go away race troll. Anyone can look through your comment history and see what you are. Not even American pffft.

We ban accounts that attack others like this, regardless of how wrong someone else may be. You may not owe the other person better, but you definitely owe this community better if you want to keep posting here. Please (re-)read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and please don't do this again.

Apologies. I don't usually lose it like that online but this person is an obvious troll. I like that HN is one of the more civil places online and don't intend to be the one to spoil it.

* Also please monitor this user's posts. He has a history of posting fact-free racially inflammatory comments that would be more at home on a forum like 4chan. It would be nice if someone kept an eye on this account. A few examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16071344

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jogjayr&next=1744780...

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gspetr&next=16069082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15624778

Your comments amount to ideological trolling whether you mean them that way or not. That's not what this site is for, and flamewar about race are especially not what this site is for, so please stop abusing Hacker News this way.

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