Apparently black lives don't matter for purposes of counting murder rates.

You're doing it yet again, mocking a fellow memer by memeing quotes from them for that purpose.

I am mocking a racist attitude. I do not care who or what memer expresses it.

The other memer chose to use these words. I am only repurposing them to show them in a negative light.

This is one of the most effective and respectful ways of fighting racism that I know.

If you think it is a TOS violation to call out racism then take it up with a global mod.

Racist? Because he calls for criminals doing unto each other to get them out of our face?
Where does he say anything about race?

He said these words, and then he followed up with references to cities like "Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit" which all have large black inner-city populations.

The context was that he was trying to dismiss 70% of gun-related homicides in this country as somehow not mattering.

These are well-known racist dog-whistles from the Right. They have apparently figured out they can get *just* up to the line of being racist by couching their criticisms of black populations in these terms.

Well, I'd rather blow that apart than tolerate it.

Did he state anything about race?

The racist assumptions about race there as here are YOURS.

Those cities are multi-racial.
You assumed that one race is involved in gangs and violence.
YOU are the racist in regards to said discussion, NOT him.

This is in fitting with a pattern of hidden-in-plain-site racist views that you continue to display.
Gangs are "black," Muslims are "brown" ... "Kill the Jews..." is more worthy of discussion to you than killing those "brown" people.

Vagabond: all American cities of a certain size are "multi-racial." He nevertheless chose to list three of the cities with the highest population of blacks, and the highest levels of black-white segregation in the country. Cities that are, certainly, closely associated with both blackness and crime in right-wing media.

Most Republicans are smart enough to know that you can't get away with straight-up attacking black people anymore. So: they code it and dog-whistle it. When they get the dog-whistle right, they don't *have* to explicitly mention it.

In 1981, former Republican Party strategist Lee Atwater, when giving an anonymous interview discussing Nixon's Southern Strategy, said:

"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'N**ger, n**ger, n**ger.' By 1968, you can't say 'n**ger' – that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now, you're talking about cutting taxes. And all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me – because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N**ger, n**ger.'"

This is what they've been doing for decades now. Calling out coded racism does not make me racist.

Cities are wha? Ya think?

He referred to 3 large cities known for exceedingly high crime rates.
You are the one that keeps injecting "black" into that equation.

We had this discussion about you saying Muslims are "brown," remember? Wasn't discussing a city & its crime then, were we?

I specifically chose those cities because they are the most violent and democrat run, you insufferable whiny f**ktard.

You have not the slightest clue about my context, Mr Big Shot Valedictorian.

You suffer from the soft bigotry of low expectations, like so many of your sickening ilk.Plus injecting race where it wasn't mentioned.

Like I said, whites are in gangs too, but I guess you think every gang member is black. Hahahaha

Plausible deniability mixed with a healthy dose of insults and umbrage — this guy is good! You may have a future gig as a talk-show host

*You* deployed the terminology of “thugs” and “gang-bangers” to cheapen the lives of inner-city dwellers tragically gunned down.

*You* said they are not proper subjects for the computation of gun-related homicides, not me.

You can hand-wave all day about “whites being in gangs too” but you are nonetheless using the same sorts of dog-whistles described by Lee Atwater in 1981.

For the record, I don’t think you’re racist. You’re one of the more reasonable and informed conservatives around here.

I think you lobbed a racial dog-whistle into a debate perhaps without even consciously realizing it.

Just be careful in polite, non-ImgFlip politics stream company with the “thug“ and “gang-banger” language particularly in conjunction with inner-city Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit.

These impoverished communities (majority black, though of course people of other races and backgrounds live there too) need help and opportunities. In these deprived places, some turn to a life of crime because there are simply no other options. We don’t have to celebrate or excuse that lifestyle, but we have to understand where it comes from.

If there’s a morality tale here, it’s that our society has failed these communities miserably, going back decades and even centuries. It’s not the soft bigotry of low expectations to point out how much we’ve royally f**ked them.

We owe it to them to either get the guns off the street (*really* get them off the street, not these largely toothless local bans), or else make real and ongoing investments there to improve living conditions. Both would be better.

And if you’re not willing to do *either* of those things? You might not be racist, but you probably don’t care.