Racist ass boomer bastards
lmfao they disabled the downvote button and I'm guessing for opposite reasons than we did.
Wtf I can't believe a group that is discriminated and basically forced into living in poverty turn to organized crime as a way to protect themselves
Someone in there made the reasonable observation that higher population densities have higher crime rates and asked if there were any examples of a large city with Republicans in charge where things got better and they cited Rudy Guliani lmao
They also did that thing where they cite rural Appalachia as being poor but a low crime rate (the implication being poor white people behave themselves). Does anyone know more about this than I do? My gut assumption is rural Appalachia has fewer worthwhile crimes to commit, no established gangs, and everything's too far apart to even do petty crimes.
I live there and yea it's pretty safe (you can leave your car key in your car overnight and never worry), we used to not even lock the doors at night. Most crimes are crimes against the state, hell moonshine used to be very popular here until just a few decades ago. But once you get to the really poverty striken areas the crime goes up like crazy. The super poor that people think of don't live here anymore. Living off of the land like they used to is just not feasible these days.
It's all about poverty, period.
Isn't moonshine that thing where you show your butt trought the window of your car?
My gut assumption is rural Appalachia has fewer worthwhile crimes to commit, no established gangs, and everything’s too far apart to even do petty crimes.
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5pM1HXxlI
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-06-30-mn-2473-story.html
https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Officials-offer-5000-reward-in-finding-Eastern-Kentucky-copper-thief-465493683.html
https://wset.com/news/local/copper-theft-inside-an-aep-substation-leads-to-widespread-power-outage
Yeah I might have been taking the claim "there's less crime in rural Appalachia" at face value. Is that even true?
The murder rate is genuinely lower. Robbery rates are obviously lower because there's less opportunites for muggings (though liquor stores and such still get held up). Other crimes, it's tough to say because the less serious the crime, the more subject statistics are to bias in local police forces. It's impossible to determine how many petty crimes get dismissed by local sheriffs because it's "so and so's boys just playing around" that would end up with a serious charge if it were some black kid in a big city. Basically everywhere in rural Appalachia has less violence than Philadelphia or New Orleans, but "less crime" is loaded.
I think that has more to do with it being a rural area. If you look at the so called black belt, rural South Carolina, rural Mississippi, rural Louisiana etc are not really places where the violence of cities occurrs either in the popular imagination. Unless we’re talking racial violence against black people
not a lot of violin player homicides
Found shapino’s Reddit account
Maintaining my position that children should not be allowed to post.
Not going to read the comments but I'm assuming they don't bother asking the question of why someone would join a gang and end up shooting someone else.
don't worry, someone posted about how systemic poverty leads to more crime, and then someone responded with a ghoulish thinktank page about "behavioral poverty" describing how "Some are poor primarily because they persist in perverse and antisocial behavior" and comes to the conclusion that "Unless the poor adopt more mainstream behaviors, and public policies are designed to move them in this direction, economic divisions are likely to grow."
Enough of this boomer shit tbh. Young people are 10x more racist than previous generations, we’re going to Jim Crow/Apartheid level racism in the next 5-15 years.
Young people are 10x more racist than previous generations,
If you've white and you're close to any white people over the age of 40, just lmfao at this line. My staunchly liberal parents use racial slurs openly. The conservatives are even worse.
seriously. you'd be fucking shocked the shit even liberals say. just a reminder in case everyone forgot again the liberals are what americans consider left wing.
most people have no idea how much racism still exists in the older crowds
Yeah that's complete horse shit. I grew up among rural conservative whites and the younger generation is not even close to being as racist as their parents and grandparents most of the time. My own grandmother told me that she doesn't like seeing that so many of her grandkids/nephews/nieces are now in interracial relationships.
Also, tik tok and YouTube comments are evidence of this phenomenon
Agreed. Whenever I hear people talk about how the younger generations are "naturally accepting," I think of stuff like this, or how big the "fascism is based" rhetoric is in memes/shitposting communities.
Most U.S. shootings are drug/ gang related and occur in minority neighborhoods
the woke petit bourgeois Karens in the DSA are very concerned with this, except instead of being GOP they scold people for not voting for New Jim Crow Joe to ensure "law and order" in their segregated ghettos
"what does 'prison abolition' even mean?" - soy apartheid settlers
Who would have thought that an ideology which dogmatically ascribes one’s lot in life to their moral character (because “meritocracy” and “personal responsibility)would naturally lead to racism and eventually fascism?
