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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White people don't like being stereotyped.  They resent the term "white people" because they feel it robs them of their individuality.  Look at the threads throughout these forums.  Say whatever you want about Rush Limbaugh or Cliven Bundy or Timothy McVeigh or whoever but don't even think about saying something revolving around white people - they pitch a fit.  
"My family didn't own slaves I was an immigrant my husband is black I voted for Obama!"  
Whites go on the defensive immediately when they sense they are being lumped into one homogeneous category.  The irony of that is white people don't hesitate to lump other ethnicities into one group and rob other ethnicities of their individuality.  WTF?  [b]Way I figure if you got a problem with people saying all whites are racist child molesting pill popping serial killers then don't say all blacks are X or all Hispanics are Y or Asians are Z.  If you can't take stereotypical depictions then stop dishing them out.[/b][/quote]

While I don't agree with gross generalizations, this isn't a good argument.

People stereotype black males as being dangerous that's true.  The sad part about this is that 1 our of 3 black men will spend time in prison in their lifetimes.  In DC, I believe it's over 50%.   A lot of people take this as proof that the system is biased against blacks, but when the FBI does their crime victimization survey every year, the proportion of blacks who are reported committing crimes matches very closely with the numbers being prosecuted and convicted.  While this doesn't say that there isn't some unfairness in the system, it does strongly suggest that the percentages getting convicted are proportional to the people committing the crimes.  The proportion of "white child molesting, pill popping, serial killers" is absolutely miniscule in comparison, which is why it's not a fair comparison.  When a significant proportion of the white male population are serial killers or child molesters we can talk.[/quote]Yes, but as I recall drug use is pretty similar between blacks and white but blacks are arrested in far higher proportions than whites are.[/quote]

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