Here's how I think this stuff develops: Columbine happens Stoner voice: "hey man ever notice how these shooters are always white?" thought spreads Everyone half-joking to each other: "lol another white shooter" A few years later "Science has proven that all mass shooters r white" https://twitter.com/StoklasaStroker/status/930888851857592320 …
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This stuff starts from jokes or vague ideas and develops through groupthink into disastrously wrong ideas about statistics. There are other examples, too.
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The jokes/vague ideas/groupthink effect is a very minor part of it. People believe reality is like this because Hollywood tells them them it is. Think about serial killers in Hollywood movies. How many are white? Now think about abusive fathers. How many are white? Exactly.
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Replying to @wjfrisby
It's possible. I suspect the Hollywood/media influence is less than half
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