I don't want to talk about Aldean's "Small town" lyrics or video.
I do want to point out (again) that the homicide rate in GOP "small town" counties, is higher than that in Dem "big town" counties. 🤡
A white person in a red county has about as much chance of being shot as a Black person in a blue county.🤡
(I don't know how much you know about crime in the USA, but if you have as much risk of being a victim of anything as Black people? That's not good).
The secret to not being shot in the United States is:
* Be white
* Be in a big blue city
I think it's hilarious how white folk from small towns think of New York as a dangerous place.
If you visit NYC from rural America, your chances of being shot just went *down* significantly.
If you look at victim stats, in general you see that:
* Black people shoot Black people.
* White people shoot white people.
* White people in blue counties don't point guns at each other very often.
* White people in red counties point guns at each other way too often.
That vigilante justice in red counties is often expressed by someone pulling a gun on you after a perceived traffic slight.
You can flee SF for TX because seeing homeless people scares you, but you ain't ready to see guns pulled at a fender bender, or because someone merged.🤷🏿‍♂️
Fox News tells you that blue counties and states are more dangerous. But Fox News isn't real. You know this. Stop pretending that you don't know this.
Ignore the racist framing, and look at who gets shot, where, and why.
@mekkaokereke I recently almost got in a screaming match with my dad about this.
I gave up because he rarely leaves South Phoenix and I know talk radio (same code as Fox and he doesn’t have cable) will repeat the meme to him tomorrow.
Definitely good to have stats handy for next time I talk to him or anyone else though.
@eyebrowsgerri @mekkaokereke To his credit he listens and accepts reason but when I go home (we’re 2000 miles apart) he usually goes back to his routine and gets brainwashed again.
Other relatives… less so on the listening part.
I do think my lecture about Jan 6 stuck at least (I live just outside DC so it was extra real).
Sometimes “the news isn’t reporting this because of a vested interest by their owners” does get through if that helps because it plays the game.
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