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2026-07-20 14:53 UTC

Omitting that the statistics themselves are the result of discrimination is kinda negligent though Is that the only reason? Or perhaps is there a cultural component to this?

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@luciferofastora@feddit.org 2026-07-20 15:49

You mean whether a people trapped in poverty, deprived of perspectives, desperate and frustrated by the injustice that continues to be done to them, develops a culture of violence? Yeah. Probably. That’s what centuries of slavery, segregation and wealth-gating social mobility will do to people: they get stuck in a cycle of poor conditions harming childhood development, leading to ill-adjusted adults struggling to get or hold good jobs, some of which will resort to other ways of making money. www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/…/violence www.opencrime.us/analysis/crime-and-poverty Pretending it’s a racial issue or a culture of violence is only half the truth. The other half is that it’s an economic issue arising from a history of treating them as second-class citizens at best, at worst basing your entire government on the conviction “that slavery subordination to the superior race is [the black man’s] natural and normal condition” and going to war over it.

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