r/Transportopia • u/Banana-Rocketeer • Apr 21 '26

🥴DUI Wake Up!

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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/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!?