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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      2. Which is to say, no one experiences white-on-white crime as white-on-white, just as crime. Same with black-on-black.

      3 replies 289 retweets 186 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      3. Two white men get into a fight at a bar. They don't experience it through prism of white-on-white crime but as "fight with that guy"

      2 replies 335 retweets 210 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      4. Analytically therefore black-on-black crime is almost useless, just confirms truism that crime is matter of proximity & opportunity.

      7 replies 311 retweets 210 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      5. But if black-on-black crime is analytically almost useless, it does have political function, which is why it remains robust.

      1 reply 136 retweets 80 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      6. Rates of crime also correlate to income. Yet nobody talks about poor-on-poor violence.

      7 replies 309 retweets 209 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      8. Wisdom from @JAMyerson https://twitter.com/JAMyerson/status/501032962134392832 …

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      8. Purpose of black-on-black meme: Only time to talk about black victims of crime is when need to deflect attention from a police shooting

      5 replies 190 retweets 115 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      9. Should add my thinking on black-on-black crimes influenced greatly by @jbouie: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/15/the-trayvon-martin-killing-and-the-myth-of-black-on-black-crime.html …

      3 replies 72 retweets 97 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      10. Phrase "black-on-black" crime makes crime all about race, divorces it from any social context (poverty, segregation)

      10 replies 227 retweets 189 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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      11. Were bombings of Coventry & Dresden examples of white-on-white war crimes? Why race relevant sometimes & not others?

      4 replies 178 retweets 138 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014

      12. And if we stipulate that black-on-black crime is the problem, how does that absolve cops in Ferguson? Are they the solution to problem?

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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          13. Shakespeare's plays are filled with white-on-white violence. True even of Othello.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Aug 2014
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          14. Of course, crime is a serous social problem, one that is both rooted in crime but also something that contributes to poverty.

          2 replies 41 retweets 23 likes
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