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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by onion2k on Monday July 15, 2019 @12:30AM (#20438129)
The level of crime in an area correlates far more closely to poverty than race, so suggesting a bad neighbourhood is bad because of the race of people who live there rather than other factors probably is racist.
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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by MrScruff on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:52AM (#20438476)
True but the first poster to mention race was the one bringing up the issue of racism.
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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by Noumenon72 on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:53AM (#20438481)
Given the extremely high correlation of crime to race, that seems unlikely. https://www.quora.com/Are-crime-rates-correlated-with-ethnic...
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Re:After Car2Go eased its background checks, 75 vehicles wer... by inferiorhuman on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:43AM (#20438645)
Given the extremely high correlation of crime to race, that seems unlikely.

Ouch man, you're not even going to try to dog whistle?

From your link:

As of 2003 West Virginia Blacks accounted for just 3.2% of the total population and 34.9% of the total prison population.

Simply translated: White areas are safer areas. That is an irrefutable fact. The poverty argument, or excuse more accurately, can be torn to shreds time-after-time.

There are so many conclusions being jumped to there that you've probably worn the mat out already. All of that racist bullshit completely ignores the disparities in enforcement, prosecution, and sentencing. As an added bonus it completely misinterprets how the FBI categories race. But hey, maybe you can get a good deal on a dog whistle for Prime Day.

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