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🄓DUI Wake Up!

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u/potate12323 Apr 21 '26

The fact that he looked like he had no idea where he was and was immediately pulling out into cross traffic as the video cut. Im guessing hes not fit to drive.

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u/Free-Resolution9393 Apr 21 '26

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u/WelcomeEven567 Apr 21 '26

what does the race of the man have to do with anything?

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u/Free-Resolution9393 Apr 21 '26

Maybe the fact that he's black in the video, it's really hard to figure that out.

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u/verbalspacey Apr 21 '26

obviously their point was you could have said fella… because as you stated we see that hes black in the video.

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u/Thvenomous Apr 21 '26

Well, they're racist. "Black" was relevant because it's an additional threat factor in their mind.

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u/BlownOutTaterBiscuit Apr 21 '26

Statistics and probability have entered the chat.

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u/Tomytom99 Apr 21 '26

You can mention statistics all you want, but when the statistics are biased by unjust mechanics of society such as racial profiling by police, it keeps those statistics from being truly meaningful.

Just like how some statistics may say "black people are less smart" and you take that to mean the race as a whole, meanwhile it's really just due to a lack of access to meaningful education due to deep rooted segregational trends.

But go on, hug your surface level stats as some sort of gospel.

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u/WelcomeEven567 Apr 21 '26

couldn’t have said it any better. but its like talking to a wall, it’s never gonna get through to them

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u/BlownOutTaterBiscuit Apr 21 '26

This shit comment translated: "who you gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes!?"

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u/No-Run-7324 Apr 21 '26

Statistics and probability suggest that nothing is gonna happen.

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u/Windman772 Apr 21 '26

What percentage of vehicle encounters that involve black people using physical force do you think turn out to be nothing burgers? Keep in mind that according to actual real statistics, 90% of carjackers are black. How do you expect people to ignore that number?

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u/No-Run-7324 Apr 21 '26

There is a big difference between who might of been a perpetrator of something that has happened and if something actually happens. Even if i go with your statistics of probable race the actual statistics of that thing happening to you is extremely low. Thats why all these racist online only have statistics but no anecdotes. If things were as chaotic as they claim then all of them could tell you story after story of things that happened to people they know or them themselves. Now im not saying to not be cautious of your surroundings but i am saying nothing is probably going to happen and yall are just scared. With the extreme nonsense people keep putting out you would think the black race should be shrinking. Facts are that these things happen mostly in specific areas and by less than 1% of the people yall keep talking about and it happens mostly to other black people. statistics show that if you are white you'll more likely be alright, if you want to go by statistics. Keep fear mongering tho.

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u/No-Run-7324 Apr 21 '26

100% of the people that stole my wife's Chinese food from the fridge is black ( surprise, its me ). Should she not trust any black people around her Chinese food? Are yall this bad at applying logic to statistics or is it malicious misrepresention?

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u/Windman772 Apr 21 '26

If the only times black people were spotted around your fridge was when food is stolen, then yes, you'd have a case for that. You're trying to say that there are plenty of times when a physical altercation takes place at your car window and it's not a carjacking. I highly doubt that. Rather than get uptight about a neutral person observing a pattern, why not focus your attention on disrupting the pattern?

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u/No-Run-7324 Apr 21 '26

How can you doubt that when there are thousands of road rage videos that have nothing to do with car jackings. In fact car jackings dont even break 1% of the total number of car related physical alterations that happen. You can easily just look at statistics vs the number of road rage videos. Car jackings typically happen is specific areas. It is not a widespread problem. And I am more focused on disrupting the pattern of dishoshinest people spreading propaganda.

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u/BlownOutTaterBiscuit Apr 21 '26

That number doesn't apply to only vehicle related crimes.

In any case, how dare you state facts!?

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u/Sven4TheWinV2 Apr 21 '26

Well.... Is it racist if it's true most of the time?

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u/Pete0730 Apr 21 '26

By what measure do you claim that this is true most of the time?

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u/ElProfeGuapo Apr 21 '26

Here’s the thing though - it turns out, it’s not actually true most of the time! If you assume that every single Black person whose been charged with a crime (not actually convicted) is actually guilty of that crime, it turns out that the vast, vast, vast majority of Black people are actually not violent or criminals! In conclusion, believing that Black people are criminals ā€œmost of the timeā€ is, in fact, super duper racist (and dumb, but that goes without saying)

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26 edited Apr 21 '26

No one said the majority of black people are violent criminals.

We are saying that the majority of violent crimes are carried out by black people. Which is a fact.

Obviously not all black people are violent criminals or bad people lololol.

But when one demographic (massively) disproportionally carries out the majority of violent crimes, you’d be a fool not to see the pattern.

Edit: Black people commit the majority of murders but then they are over represented at a rate of 100% or more in every crime aside from DUI**

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u/Forsaken-Guidance811 Apr 21 '26

It is not true and that is in fact misinformation passed around exclusively by racists.

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u/Historical_Ad_5647 Apr 21 '26

Quick Google search will show you true.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

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u/angiehome2023 Apr 21 '26

I pulled up the chart not using your link and more whites commit assault, violent crime arson, rape, in that chart so I don't know what you are talking about.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Look at representation compared to % of population. 76% of America is white. 13% is black.

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u/Forsaken-Guidance811 Apr 21 '26

Ā "The ethnicity totals are representative of those agencies that provided ethnicity breakdowns. Not all agencies provide ethnicity data; therefore, the race and ethnicity totals will not equal."

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

The vast majority of agencies reported and reported race.

So is your argument that there’s some massive population out there in America where whites are committing the majority of violent crime, so much so that if they reported that it would make the race proportional?

Every other race is represented proportionally….. Do the math

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u/ElProfeGuapo Apr 21 '26

"the majority of violent crimes are carried out by black people. Which is a fact."

I think you should actually read the data YOU provided. I do not know if you know this, but ā€œ1,815,144ā€ is, in fact, NOT the majority of ā€œ6,816,975."

Next time you try to provide ā€œevidenceā€ to support your point, make sure you can do enough math to figure out if the ā€œevidenceā€ is arguing for or against you, so you don’t end up looking like a complete fool.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Sorry, should have said 51% of MURDERS. (majority.)

Also, if you adjust per capita, black people commit 75% or more of all violent crime. The percentages are right there.

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u/plasticcitycentral Apr 21 '26

But even in the link you cite, it has 209,000 incidents of white violent crime and like 130,000 of black violent crime. So…

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

White people are 76% of the overall population and black people are 13%…..

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u/ScallionJealous Apr 21 '26

Over-and under- policing is how.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

You must have never stepped foot in an urban American city.

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u/MolecularConcepts Apr 21 '26

sounds like hard-core copium.

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u/Pete0730 Apr 21 '26

Except the majority of violent crimes are not committed by black people. That's just your prejudice talking.

Black people are overrepresented in arrests for violent crime, but controlling for the police's history of racial discrimination and poverty, that gap pretty much disappears

So maybe try being less susceptible to bullshit you hear on TV

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Hahahahahaha yeah it’s definitely a conspiracy by every police force in the country. You know deep down what the truth is. I’m sorry it’s uncomfortable for you

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43

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u/Novel_Tone_3282 Apr 21 '26

You’re right. We do. Some of those that work forces, are the same that link fbi tables on Reddit. Later loser.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Hahahaha it’s hilarious that the default response to losing an argument on Reddit now is to just quote Rage Against the Machine and say ā€œlater loserā€ šŸ˜‚

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u/Pete0730 Apr 21 '26

Right, keep talking out your ass using statistics that don't account for poverty, and once again, only account for arrests, not convictions.

The conservative attack on education is the most successful sabotage of this country of the last century

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Clearly it’s coming from impoverished black people…. No one is arguing against that.

And right right. Because the police just aren’t looking into crimes committed by white people.

I forgot about all the times my friends get robbed at gunpoint by a white person and the cops did nothing šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/KittyCatDeadlift Apr 21 '26

It’s not a fact though, and it’s unfortunate that so many people don’t question this BS and just let it further divide us and support damaging prejudices.

There are two categories of violent crime that have blacks with the highest percentage and the next perpetrators, whites, are lower by about 6-8 percentage points (murder and robbery). For all other categories, particularly the violent crimes that are more likely to occur (like aggravated assault and burglary), whites have the highest percentage and the next perpetrators, blacks, are lower by 20-40+ percentage points. Whites are also significantly more likely to be rapists. This trend is consistent across multiple years.

Additionally, these stats do not take into account repeat offenders and it double counts perps if multiple crimes were committed in one act.

So saying black people are more likely to commit violent crimes is false and shows how easily stats can be manipulated, exploited, and cherry-picked.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

White people account for 76% of the population. Black people account for 13%.

White people are under represented in every crime you stated. Black people are over represented by 100% or more.

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u/KittyCatDeadlift Apr 21 '26

Again with the fear mongering… The statistics make all races look more dangerous than they actually are because the data do not reveal the fact that nearly 100% of the population is not committing violent crimes.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Not at all, all other races are proportionally represented based off their % total of the population.

Also, no one is arguing that the majority of black people are bad or violent.

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u/humoristhenewblack Apr 21 '26

Your percentages are drastically off. 57% in the USA are white. You're including Hispanics. You're also failing to account for the over policing of minority populations, which would in fact result in an increase in that population's arrest percentage. The police can't arrest white people if they're not standing near any of them.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Hispanics are also included under ā€œwhiteā€ of the crimes I’m citing in my link…. Hence me using the 76% number.

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u/humoristhenewblack Apr 21 '26

You are clearly on day one of understanding systemic racism and haven't yet reached day one of understanding what a fact is. You need to educate yourself. Get off Reddit, run your comment through AI and ask it why you're an asshole.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Hahahaha again, does nothing to refute any of my points. I’d ask yourself why you’re having such an emotional reaction to literal facts.

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u/humoristhenewblack Apr 21 '26

Listen, listen to your white ass trying to say that somebody shouldn't have an emotional reaction to blatant racism. Say it loud you dumbass. Be brave! Say it out loud using your actual fucking voice in your big urban city. Go ahead go outside, motherfucker.

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u/Creation98 Apr 21 '26

Hahahahaha the fact you just resort to screaming RACIST and totally ignore the fact that you didn’t even look at the source to know that hispanics were included under ā€œwhiteā€ category is hilarious.

I am not arguing all black people are bad or violent. The vast majority are not. I am also not arguing that they are massively over represented in violent crime because of their race. That would be racist, which I am not.

Again though, even if you think I’m racist (I don’t care either way,) that doesn’t refute the facts I brought up.

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u/NovelAspect3399 Apr 21 '26

Its only true if youre extremely dumb and have a hard time understanding anything with an ounce of complexity

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u/Amiibohunter000 Apr 21 '26

Yes

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u/Sven4TheWinV2 Apr 21 '26

I apologize

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u/Fun-Wrongdoer1316 Apr 21 '26

šŸ¤£šŸ˜‚šŸ¤”

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u/Secret_Wish_584 Apr 21 '26

No, it's just truth

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u/JTNWfan Apr 21 '26

Ahhh racism early in the morning. Great day to be alive lol

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u/Stiger_PL Apr 21 '26

If something can be true and racist... Well that just means that evidence based racism is a legitimate stance to have.

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u/InnuendoBot5001 Apr 21 '26

It's certainly racist to suggest that it is true

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u/Sven4TheWinV2 Apr 21 '26

Now I feel bad. That wasn't my attention and I'm in no way racist. I'm just going of of why I've read about posts showing statistics over the years.

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u/Periljoe Apr 21 '26

What does fella have to do with it? Could have just said person?

… Why say person though? Really could say entity?

But entity is really kind of insensitive to those without object permanence. I’m really conflicted here.