I write about this sometimes, but still stunning to see how misinformed people are about violence vs. gender.https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/741050614407254016 …
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But more significantly, black Americans are murdered at about 7x the rate of white Americans.
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Black men are murdered at about 30-35x the rate white women are. WW rate is barely a rounding error.
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Stats for Asians and for LGBTs are thin, but seems the former is slightly less than whites, latter sig. higher than cishets.
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Sexual violence rates are technically tricky to analyze, but if you include prison rape they seem to be v. roughly equal.
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That is, the ratio is somewhere between 2:1 and 1:1 women v. men.
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But here's the stinger: because of black incarceration, the group at highest risk of rape & sexual assault is black men.
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I went into a lot more detail on my ask.fm account a couple of years ago, but can't be arsed to dig it out now.
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That aside, terrific analyses. Thank you. I sort of knew some of those things, but had never put them together like you did. Wow.
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Yeah, it's horrifying. Once you look at the data clearly you realize *everybody* is running on false premises.
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Given the state of the national debate on every other thing, that probably shouldn't come as a surprise.
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