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Causes of Death in London (1623) (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

New York's murder rate (and the overall murder rate in the USA) is shaped by a history of race relations which is quite different from London's. A white person in New York is much less likely (and conversely a black or Hispanic person is much more likely) to be murdered than the overall murder rate for the city might lead someone to think.

[–] GJdan 9 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, well, carry on then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Username checks out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Source

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Black and Hispanic people make up 52% of the city's population but 88% of the murder victims. The murder rate of the white and Asian population works out to approximately 8.4 per million, so the average European tourist is not in much danger here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, exactly. You seem to arbitrarily place higher value on white people's lives...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not making a value judgement. I'm explaining why New York City's murder rate is so much higher than London's. It's because NYC has a population of white and Asian people who are as safe as Europeans and another, de facto segregated population of black and Hispanic people who are much less safe.

I presume that a big part of the reason why things are the way they are is that society places a higher value on white people's lives, but I'm not doing that here. Explaining isn't the same as justifying.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago

Why bring it up at all then? The topic was New York being unsafe, you come rushing it explaining it's because of the brown people.

Welp. Even though at this point I'm leaning towards "very clumsy with words" rather than "disgusting racist", I don't really have much interest in talking to you further.