Maybe you think you are being helpful and informative, but citing the FBI statistics is a tired trope and you are behaving, online, indistinguishably from hardcore racists.
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themgt, this is not a throwaway account. I'm a long time user that often gets banned and returns to try again to have reasonable discourse. I find it hard because for educated people, many on this site are full of unexamined biases.
Ok, so I cited another take on crime statistics when presented with the super-trope of OP citing the FBI crime statistics. What I'm trying to do is educate you and others that if you don't socialize with the other half of the internet, well they see someone post the FBI crime statistics and they think, "Wow, what a total racist or a total knucklehead."
What is the truth that you want me to know that you don't think I don't?
I'll tell you the truth that I want you to know: if you reach for the FBI crime statistics instead of the testimony and experience of law-abiding people of color then your trust is in authority and not in the integrity of good people everywhere
Is there a Goodwin's Law for citing FBI statistics yet?
Why doesn't the FBI calculate this by income?
And just so you know, probably about 50% of people that read you citing the FBI statistics will think you are a hardcore racist. I'm not calling you a racist, but I'm letting you know how hard everyone rolls their eyes when you post something like this.
> There just a lot of guys and a bunch of leased machines. We have essentially 0 "high tech" farms.
I think OP might mean that these "high tech farms" are less like farms and more like movie studios. The tractor makers and the bank are acting like a movie studio. The are running a production in a certain area, with certain high tech equipment, with certain subleases on land for a certain number of years. There is no one driving vision and keeping the flame of what high tech should be. It's more like, "let's get this soy to market in the new way that is 7% cheaper before the other team does." Just a guess on what OP means
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/despite-being-only-13-percent...
EDIT: themgt, this is not a throwaway account. I'm a long time user that often gets banned and returns to try again to have reasonable discourse. I find it hard because for educated people, many on this site are full of unexamined biases.
Ok, so I cited another take on crime statistics when presented with the super-trope of OP citing the FBI crime statistics. What I'm trying to do is educate you and others that if you don't socialize with the other half of the internet, well they see someone post the FBI crime statistics and they think, "Wow, what a total racist or a total knucklehead."
What is the truth that you want me to know that you don't think I don't?
I'll tell you the truth that I want you to know: if you reach for the FBI crime statistics instead of the testimony and experience of law-abiding people of color then your trust is in authority and not in the integrity of good people everywhere