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.
@mekkaokereke A few years back a white guy from a nearby small town was talking about how they wouldn't come to my (mid-sized, diverse) city because "white people get shot just walking around there".
I looked at 5 years of data...not only could I not find a single incidence of that happening in a couple hundred homicides here, I only found a tiny handful of any white guys getting shot for any reason at all, by anyone.
And most white guys are shot by white guys. The whole criminalization of non-whites depends on that kind of preposterous fear however....
@DeborahForPlus @bullcitybrian
It even extends to the police. By far the most dangerous person for a police officer, is:
* White male
* With a long rifle (AR-15 or equivalent)
* During a traffic stop
As much as cops are overly cautious and jumpy around unarmed, innocent, Black drivers, they are under cautious of heavily armed, right wing, violent drivers with strong anti-government views.
And white men are most likely to be armed.😢
And now we're back to implicit bias ... Which we cannot help in ourselves, except that we can be aware of it and as a result move our thinking into the rational part of our brains ... Explicit bias that's denied is what continues on ....
@bullcitybrian @mekkaokereke I had to tell a person that the "totally common scenario" that he wanted just *two* examples of was so rare, so uncommon, that to even find them couldn't prove anything due to experimental data issues.
Still about shootings, just had to do with what cause. There just isn't the data.
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