That's typical of BLM supporters. Even intelligent, supposedly scientifically minded people no longer see fit to consult the raw data. They know it's out there, somewhere, but that they're not supposed to look at it.
> Crime goes hand in hand with poverty
Race is actually a better predictor of crime than poverty. But it should be obvious by now that a large part of the disparity is due to the media inciting hatred for whites amongst blacks. Look at the recent spate of "random attacks" (there's nothing random about them) in NYC in the last few months:
Do you seriously believe this would be happening if the media weren't constantly propagandizing black people with a narrative of "unprovoked violence against innocent PoC by white racists?"
I plan on leaving NYC sometime before 2024, since I assume the media will again create another "long, hot summer" to increase Democratic turnout, regardless of how many "random" attacks it incites.
The message was really "COPS ARE KILLING BLACK PEOPLE," yet most people killed by police are white (somehow none of these ever seem to merit national, 24/7 news coverage), and while a disproportionate number killed are black, they also commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime and have more violent encounters with police.
These kinds of mob-mandated retractions, especially in the wake of the ongoing replication crisis, only bolster conservatives' skepticism of science and their suspicion that it has been corrupted for political purposes.
I'm seeing more and more outright ridicule of science from conservatives now, or at least ridicule of the emphatic, unqualified appeals to it: e.g., "the science is settled!" "trust the science!"
Is censoring papers that support wrongthink really worth half the country losing in faith in science altogether?
How much culture do Vietnames, Korean, and Thai people share?