Two people I'd actually be interested in debating - on TOTALLY opposite ends of the spectrum - are @nhannahjones and @colinflaherty. Can you convince me that (1) most American uniqueness traces to slavery OR that (2) racial violence is epidemic in 2020?
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This is an intelligent point I'll respond to, but - as with a lot of "dissident" arguments - the starting premise strikes me as basically wrong. First, relying on anecdotes is, in real social science, a last-ditch strategy used when literally nothing is reliable at all.
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It's always good to keep anecdotal data as a background sanity check and there has been a massive surge in the statistical power of anecdotes with the rise of social media.
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In this case...bruh...we HAVE crime data. Every serious law enforcement agency in the USA has to report all Index crimes to the Feds every year. This is called the "UCR." We then double-check THAT, to prevent cheating, with an anonymized million-person interview called the "BJS."
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Yes, I agree that the crime data is quite good and if I implied otherwise that was my mistake.
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There is almost literally no reason to suspect that millions of people are telling (1) federal agents and (2) that nice same-race woman in the room with the camcorder that their rapist was white when he was Black. Not one serious scientist has ever argued this.
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Not saying there's any reason to distrust crime reports but society is indeed moving towards being lower trust and one of the causes is pervasive dishonesty on the part of most institutions - including federal law enforcement.
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