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[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure what the 14% line is but unfortunately that's extremely common. I was raised to cross the street to avoid the house.

People fucking love to pull out these reheated stories of one time a friend of a friend said he heard how some blackfella did something unforgivable like uhhh pinched a ladder or something.

Meanwhile community is shattered, overpolicing continues to shatter it, federal government has literally instructed cops fuck off and stop arresting people but they somehow just can't seem to do it despite their oh so sincere efforts.

Aboriginal people are like 400x more likely to die in hospital which is just completely unfathomable but none of the racist drop-kicks wants to engage with how that could possibly be a explained without racism.

Shit's fucked, it makes me extremely angry to see the genocidal spirit of colonialism is still in full swing.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Ah, right, you aren't American. It's super common for American racists to say

racism"black people are 14% of the population but commit 50% of the crime"
which is of course a severely bad faith use of crime conviction statistics. The Aussie I am referring to quoted a similar stat for aboriginals.

[–] beanlover@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not to nitpick, but it's actually 13%, and they even use "1350" as a dogwhistle for the stat.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=1350

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

It brings me some satisfaction that I don't perfectly know the racism lore despite my upbringing

[–] narr1@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh shit, that's kinda like how there is a saying about Roma in Finland, how

Spoiler90% of them ruin their reputation for all of them, referring to the idea of Roma being thieves, frauds and generally untrustworthy.

I'm pretty sure people say this unironically to this day, and we have a saying of similar vibes about Russians, too! A lovely culture, full love and acceptance*!

*terms and conditions apply

[–] muhg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Them romas are always stealin' the copper and burnin' cables!

Tale as old as time here in the Balkans, just replace roma with the appropriate slur.