The age of information has ruined politics.

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Originally Posted by Horza [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

"The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique that involves overwhelming your opponent with as many arguments as possible, with no regard for the accuracy, validity, or relevance of those arguments. For example, a person using it might attempt to support their stance by bringing up, in rapid succession, a large number of vague claims, anecdotal statements, misinterpreted facts, and irrelevant comments."

Awww thanks. I knew you would want to see some data. The best I can find with figures from the justice department is unfortunately from 2019 (https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/h...ime-statistics). But let’s take a look at the hate crime category, shall we?

“Of the 6,406 known offenders:

52.5% were White

23.9% were Black or African American“


Now let’s look at representation. While people make up about 76% of the USA based on the 2019 census (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fa...e/US/PST045219)

Black people make up about 13.4% of the population



GOLLY GEE, what a surprise. White people are under-represented based on their population size in hate crime occurrence and black people are over-represented. I’m sure this comes as no surprise to you and also the reason you asked for this data

As soon as the figures for 2020 are made available by the justice department, I’ll update them