What should I draw from this though? That the USA has a violent history with slavery and segregation and those scars haven't been healed, that the government hasn't figured out a way to fix this historical issue?
Or should I draw some other conclusion that I prefer to not type out because it'd be too disgusting to even entertain it?
Maybe that's an impossible task given those requirements. If it were easy, we'd probably have found the solution by now. We're pretty sensitive about numbers like that after all, to the point that I'm generally reluctant to quote them.
It's certainly the thing to say if you don't feel like actually changing anything.
The main reason behind the disparity in crime demographics become fairly apparent when you compare them to the statistics on poverty demographics. Research shows a correlation between poverty/income inequality and rate of violent crime. It follows that reducing the crime rate, regardless of demographic, is a matter of raising people out of poverty and reducing the level of societal inequality.
> If it were easy, we'd probably have found the solution by now.
Quite frankly, most countries haven't even tried looking for one. Most prison systems only put people through a process that only makes them more likely to reoffend. The insane thing about this is we know that some places are better but we make excuses and refuse to change.
The problem comes from the things that you're supposedly implying. This isn't entirely your fault, because this line of thinking is brought up again and again. People know what someone is trying to say if someone just pulls up this kind of statistic. Your fault (if it's an honest mistake) is not being aware enough of the discussion around this topic and the lack of articulateness in your comment.
>The FBI is racist and fabricates stats
This, but unironically
Also "FBI crime stats" is probably one of the loudest dog whistles, more like a fog horn at this point.
If you can't see what their gist was, well, that's a you thing.
That those statistics were posted as a dog whistle is backed up by the user's other posts.
On Portugal's African colonies:
> The only thing to apologize is to ourselves. We should haver never went there and left you in the stone age.
> All the infrastructure we left you weren't able to maintain, as it happened with 99% of the African countries.
> Total mystery why.
Casual quotation marks around youngsters:
> And now robbing stores is becoming rampant as we can all testify by the loads of videos of "youngsters" entering stores and taking what they want without anyone doing anything.
I hope you're only playing dumb.