Gonna be a mess - got an excuse to agitate

[battlemidget]

Referring to thousands as "K" has been around a lot longer than the internet.

I like 'M' better

[roberth]

I like 'M' better

Just how old are you? Mamma Mia!!

[Gman]

Andrew McCarthy: 'Institutional racism' among police? Let's look at the numbers
Another revelation of white privilege:

About twice as many white people as black people are killed by police. In fact, in about 75 percent of police shootings, the decedent is not black.

Of course, that is not what you would grasp from consuming media.

Take the website statista.com, specifically its breathless focus on “Hate crime in the United States” — counterfactually insinuating that any shooting involving a black victim must be a “hate crime.” Here’s their big headline from Tuesday: “Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed By Police.”

It is fiction. It is sheer demagoguery, peddled as American cities are besieged by rioters in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police.

The falsity of the claim is demonstrated even by statista.com itself. Just three days ago, the site posted another series of bar graphs, showing that, in fact, whites are nearly twice as likely as blacks to be shot to death by police. Here are the numbers:

Year White Black

2017 457 223

2018 399 209

2019 370 235

2020 (so far) 42 31

[MrAK]

Andrew McCarthy: 'Institutional racism' among police? Let's look at the numbers
Another revelation of white privilege:

Sounds legit. The counter argument I’ve seen to that is percentage of the population.



White alone, not Hispanic or Latino drops the number down to 60.4%, which is still almost 5x the population of African Americans

[Gman]

I like 'M' better

In other late breaking news, the Roman empire has fallen.