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me_irl (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Equating gang violence with black people is racist as shit.

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  • [–] 39 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Admittedly that dog whistle was an assumption I made. He didn't finish his thought.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    The point he was making is that the vast majority of violence in America takes place in gang warfare, and if you're not in a gang, it is far less of a personal concern than it might otherwise appear. I know this because it's a common one that these kind of people make all the time.

    It's a bad point because it basically implies that gang violence doesn't matter.

    E: downvotes for explanation, I guess?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Indeed. It's a common dogwhistle the conservative talking heads have entrenched in modern discourse. Obviously, white gangs exist, but the act of mentioning gang violence while talking to a predominantly young, white crowd will water the seed in their mind that the other is the problem.

    Take a look at any Fox News segment that covers gang violence. Guarantee any mugshots or arrest videos shown during such segments do not show ANY white detainees. It's deliberate. If they ever show a white person arrested, they will absolutely frame the segment differently, and won't utter that phrase.

    Since the "war on drugs" designed to target minorities is less effective now, they branched out to calling it the war on gang violence.

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