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I really wonder about people who post with implicit claims that kids from Whitman and Wooton have the same violent crime rates as [b]ghetto kids[/b]. Like, everybody knows this is wrong by at least an order of magnitude. Do the people who post this stuff actually believe it themselves? Are they ignorant of crime rates and all the basic realities of American life? Or are they playing some weird holier than thou game with other posters? It’s a mystery[/quote]

Who?[/quote]

Now we have someone either ignorant of American life or else evidence that posters like this are indeed playing a strange game of pretending to be oblivious. FYI that ghetto is a vernacular term for areas of multigenerational concentrated poverty marked by higher levels of crime, unemployment, family breakdown, and other forms of social disadvantage or dysfunction. In the U.S such areas are generally inhabited by black American descendants of slaves. Sometimes also recent immigrants but immigrant poverty has tended not to be multigenerational in America, which has significant success in integrating non-white immigrants. I suggest you read up on some sociology and history so you can understand the referents of such terms.[/quote]

PP is posting from 1968.[/quote]

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