JayJay
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What was the population in the shopping center by race?
I actually agree with you about the Atlanta shooting. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but the parlors he attacked have mostly Asian employees. So it could be a matter of what shops he chose to attack rather than race.
Unless we have some evidence by now that he chose the parlors because Asians work there.
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Guilds
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I am very balanced…with my eyes and ears open.
WuWei
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Depends on which category of mass shooters.
WuWei
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Aren’t massage parlors generally an Asian led thing?
JayJay
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Usually or so I have heard.
So I think the accusations of it being a race-based thing are premature unless he left some evidence he chose massage parlors because he knew he’d find Asians there.
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Samm
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Then why did you bring it up?
The “we” you are referring to begins with toxic rhetoric from ■■■■■■■ politicians and sensationalized by drive by media outlets scrambling for their share of pitiful ratings.
The “breaking news flash” by CNN reported the shooter as a “white man” fer crissakes! The weapon sensationalized as an “AR-15 assault rifle” is false according to police investigators, the Ruger 556 is classified as a pistol.
Solutions?
WuWei
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bigtwnvin:
The “we” you are referring to begins with toxic rhetoric from ■■■■■■■ politicians and sensationalized by drive by media outlets scrambling for their share of pitiful ratings.
The “breaking news flash” by CNN reported the shooter as a “white man” fer crissakes! The weapon sensationalized as an “AR-15 assault rifle” is false according to police investigators, the Ruger 556 is classified as a pistol.
Solutions?
It begins with education. With shaping culture. And yes, the media.
That classification is stupid.
JayJay
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Because it was pertinent to bring it up.
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JayJay
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Simple math doesn’t dictate that there should be two dead people of color.
WuWei
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Actually, simple math does.
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JayJay
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No it doesn’t.
Because there’s no guarantee the sub-population of people that was within the shooter’s range at the time of the incident was completely representative of the population of Boulder, CO.
Guvnah
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I understand your distinctions regarding categories, but they’re really just sub-categories. The category is mass-shootings. Period. A sub-category of “criminal mass shooting” doesn’t change the fact that all the other categories are also criminal acts. And the fact that some mass shootings are current-criminal shooters taking out rival criminals doesn’t change the randomness for the bystander victims at the party or night club the shooter shoots up.
Guvnah
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It’s racist to point that out.
You needed to say that Asian workers are statistically over-represented or some other soft pedal phrasing to be safe. And even then, you’d be subject to the slings and arrows of the perpetually-offended for saying it.
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Guvnah
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Yes, simple math does. Simple math.
Statistical math does not.
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JayJay
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WuWei:
Simple math
The math is still simple once you know the proper inputs.