Have I taken political science? Yes.
The last time you checked progressive liberalism is not equated with throwing rocks or violence? We can argue the many types of liberals all day long but the point is that white people DO acknowledge racism by other whites and white people are doing something to fight it.
Did I read your original post? I did. Your co-workers brought up the black on black crime issue. You argue that there is no black on black crime, that there is only crime.
African Americans do not attack people simply because they are black? Maybe that is true but they do attack white people for being white.
http://fox40.com/2016/09/12/4-arrested-in-string-of-el-dorado-hills-home-invasions/
How many more black on white crime links do you want me to produce? There are thousands.
Your co-workers ask "Why do blacks complain about racism so much?" I can't speak for others but I don't like being blamed for something I did not do. Also, my family came to the US from 1850-1907 and lived in the northern states. They were farmers and never owned any slaves. So I'm not responsible for slavery and neither is my family but I grew up being accused of something that my family did not do.
I also think that people, not just black people, love over using an excuse. It's not their fault, it's those people over there or the government or the President or this or that.
You read something about the recent African-American soldier who died? Did you also read anything about the three white soldiers who died in that same attack? Probably not, right?
You have had to answer for what other blacks do? And whites have to answer for what other white people did hundreds of years ago.
When are blacks going to apologize to the Jews for enslaving them in Egypt 2,500 years ago?
Ok so since you've taken political science and understand political leans then I'll forgive you in your mistaken post regarding "militant liberals throwing rocks." You understand that the idea of progressivism is about social reform. The idea that militant rock throwing is against the ideals of progressivism because it does not advocate the right to free speech as well as the right to assembly. However, it becomes an issue if speech turns violent so any group proclaiming liberalism (which I think a lot of young militant groups misinterpret) using violent tactics are merely extremists with misguided ideals. Conservatives have a habit of ascribing violent tactics especially in light of recent events as a "liberal." When it comes to dangerous ideas even though an individual has a skewed belief (in my opinion) I do not care so long as you do not incite violence or touch me and you can say whatever you want.
You said: "Your co-workers brought up the black on black crime issue. You argue that there is no black on black crime, that there is only crime."
Ok, I see you read that but you missed the part where I also said: " my co-workers and I tend to discuss socio-political issues." When discussing socio-political issues then spans on a variety of other topics besides racism, but apparently your mind seemed to have focused mainly on "black on black crime." That (black-on-black crime) is merely one topic out of many) issue is not the main focus however when discussing race relations, the typical response I've noticed by some whites is that many tend to deflect from the criticisms of their community as we see in the following statement made by you:
"African Americans do not attack people simply because they are black?
Maybe that is true but they do attack white people for being white."
Just to finally solidify my point according to the national review:
"There’s no such thing as “black-on-black” crime. Yes, from 1976 to 2005, 94 percent of black victims were killed by black offenders, but that racial exclusivity was also true for white victims of violent crime—86 percent were killed by white offenders. . . ."
Read more at:
'There's No Such Thing as Black-on-Black Crime'
As for what you posted subsequent to the black-on-black crime stuff regarding "black on white" crime, we must ask when it comes to so-called black on white crime is the criminal activity done on the basis of race or was it because the victims were white and that the crime was merely based on criminal activity? So-called black on white crime is called "hate crime" so you would have to produce evidence that there is a growing epidemic of hate crime and discern it from regular criminal activity. But let us see if there is more black on white:
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According to the 2015 FBI hate crime statistics, the latest available, there were 613 anti-white-related crimes out of 5,850 total cases. That's around 10.5 percent of all reported hate crimes, and within the yearly average, federal numbers show.
By comparison, the FBI reports there were 1,745 anti-black hate crimes or about 30 percent of all reported incidents. Jews were the most targeted religious group that year and were victims of 11 percent of all hate crimes. It's not clear how many anti-Jewish hate crime victims also may have been attacked because of their race........
If you read further in the article:
"The FBI does classify attacks based on disability as a hate crime. Federal numbers show 88 incidents related to attacks on disability in 2015.
In addition to underreporting, Levin said strong federal data of the race and ethnicity of assailants is incomplete because of the lack of consistent reporting.
The 2015 FBI data showed that of the 734 total reported offenses committed against whites — a single incident could have multiple offenses like assault or theft — 46 percent of those were committed by blacks.
In contrast, of the 2,125 reported offenses committed against blacks, 58 percent of those who committed by whites."
See:
Crimes against whites equals small percentage of hate crimes, FBI statistics show
Your fox news link does not prove that the crime was race based. You need to produce actual data to demonstrate hate crimes against whites:
Race/Ethnicity/Ancestry: 3,310 4,029 4,216 3,196
Anti-White 613 734 789 681
Anti-Black or African American 1,745 2,125 2,201 1,605
See:
Table 1
Clearly you are wrong in the stats considering anti-white crime as the above shows there is more anti-black crime when compared to anti-white crime. Again, the crime has to be proven as racially motivated not a simple crime where the victim is just a random person. Alas, this is not the thread concerning that, this is about what I stated in the beginning. You're continual intent to deflect will be ignored by me. If you want to discuss that, make a thread about it.
"When are blacks going to apologize to the Jews for enslaving them in Egypt 2,500 years ago?"
This isn't a discussion about apologies this is a discussion about people of Caucasian descent checking people who are blatantly racist and a fight against white supremacy.
