mtswApr 23, 2023
The fact that Politico felt the necessity of including the "actually" in the headline about this widely known and available fact speaks to how hegemonic racist assumptions about crime - that it's caused by naive libs being too easy on minorities - are in the news discourse https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413
The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence

America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them.

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@mtsw unfortunately, politico has been rife with misinfo and disinformation for the last few years, so this too is probably bullshit
Apr 24, 2023 at 8:51amWeb