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Would you care to elaborate what you believe this problem is, and how you've deduced it?

The poster is referring to a subset of African-Americans that have the highest crime rates of any demographic in the US. To be clear, I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the poster.

The poster wants to imply the population is black Americans even though similar ethnic groups in other countries don’t have nearly the same violent crime rates. Either there are structural factors at play or black Americans are somehow a specific distinct population from people of that diaspora around the world. This is where the analytical skepticism of people who insinuate these ideas tends to fall apart.

Wow, almost like culture matters.

Structural factors for a single population out of dozens of distinct ones to kill, rape, rob, loot, riot, at rates 10x+ higher than others.

Funny how the same factors end up applying in Brazil, Europe, and even Japan.

At least try to bring some evidence when casually spouting random racist falsehoods, we’re an empirically driven discussion forum.

I'm not the OP but equating criticism of the *culture* of a *subset* of a given demographic with racism is an extremely uncharitable take.

What’s uncharitable about defaulting to thinking someone implying black people’s culture makes them murderous around the world is being racist? The “given demographic” they were specifying was a race!

Implying that Black culture promotes murder and rape is quite literally racism.

Ah. I had guessed as much, but figured that was an awful assumption to apply to someone. Now, looking at their post history, I see they also advocate for the idea that similar groups of people are less intelligent based on their skin color.

Truly disappointing.

The irony is on a different post he described building a system to identify racist journalist tweets.

I mean…they are a distinct population. The history of racial discrimination in the US has resulted in a very different black population than that of other countries.

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