Why are most of the artists in the USA democrats?

[Nilstoniakrath]

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

Truth is the answer to our problems lies in the middle, rather than on the left or the right.

Problem is, there isn't really much of a true middle. "Independent" is usually just too stupid to know the difference, or too ball-less to make a stand either way.

[fash]

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

Well that's just too god damn bad isn't it? We're pretty much married to diversity here in America. There is no unwinding that clock after hundreds of years of mixing and immigration.

I'm not even saying unwinding, but we don't have to double down in a direction we know empirically to cause more racial tensions and lower trust in societies.

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

So all we can do is try to explain calmly to racists why they are offending people. And then try to do some give and take to placate the social justice movements. That's the reality.

I wouldn't say it's beyond reality that some policies could be put in place to slow down or even slowly reverse causes of racial tensions in the US.

[JurisDictum]

If I was a BLM kid I'd target the drug war. Make growing pot in the south (great outdoor conditions) practically a black-only profession as most the red necks poo poo it. That would help out blacks more than any single thing I can think of. De-powering drug-fueled gangs and main source police vampirism.

[Maner]

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

Like I said before, you can say "this stuff is hard to fix I give up", or you can say "it's hard to fix but it's worth trying even so."

Also I think you're vastly over-imagining "more likely to get the dog harmed or killed". The violent crime rate is like 386 in 100,000 (ie. less than one in a thousand), and your own risk is likely far lower because those victims are disproportionately poor/minority, and include rape victims which are disproportionately female. Since I don't know your exact gender/race/social class I'll do rough math and quarter (and round) that to one in ten thousand.

Now, how often would having a racist expectation of people help you avoid being assaulted/murdered? Only some subset of the times the attacker is a stranger right? But ... "among homicides reported to the FBI for which the victim-offender relationship was known ... 73% and 79% were committed by offenders known to the victims", So you're looking at only some of 1/4 in 10,000.

TLDR; Even if some minorities have been shown to have a greater rate of violence (a natural consequence of their disproportionate historical poor treatment), there still is no meaningful difference to your safety from not being a racist.

You're same logic can be used to prove police involved killings and abuse are even rarer than the black violent crime rate yet this movement and people like you push that it's a widespread problem and an irrational fear of the police is a proper response. Black people killed by cops is in direct proportion to black violent crime rates which are 12x higher than white violent crime rates. You are bitching about cause and effect, you want the cops to stop focusing on black communities then fix the crime problems in those communities.

The FBI also shows that a white perso is 30x more likely to be killed by a black person than a black person is to be killed by a white. It's great that you accept some things from the FBI but completely ignore everything else

[Patriam1066]

(A natural consequence of their historical poor treatment)

LOL

[hyejin]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

(A natural consequence of their historical poor treatment)

LOL

this post is 4 parentheses short

[Lulz~Sect]

Statistics are racist


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[Pokesan]

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

Problem is, there isn't really much of a true middle. "Independent" is usually just too stupid to know the difference, or too ball-less to make a stand either way.

that's the thing tho. its independent voters that decide the presidency. and only in a few states, most are noncompetitive.

hope this helps!

[Lhancelot]

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

its independent voters that decide the presidency.

Total bullshit.

Everyone knows the puppetmasters decide the presidency long before any citizen votes.

[skarlorn]

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

that's the thing tho. its independent voters that decide the presidency. and only in a few states, most are noncompetitive.

hope this helps!

Yeah this fact kind of upsets me