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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 25 Jan 2016

    Trump's Pants on Fire tweet that blacks killed 81% of white homicide victims http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/23/donald-trump/trump-tweet-blacks-white-homicide-victims/ … via PolitiFact

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      2. Anna Wallenstam‏ @WALLSTAM 25 Jan 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        It’s actually fairly accurate if you normalise the populations. Which isn’t all that unreasonable. @sapinker

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      1. TRR‏ @therajraj 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker this is a really old story

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      1. Nicholas Shumate‏ @ShumateBc 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @PolitiFact Thank you for some fucking sanity, God damn, you'd think facts caused ebola with the mainstream media...

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      1. Ese‏ @EseConActitud 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker Add in the fact that nonwhite Hispanics are bundled with whites in many of the stats and comparative black rate > 1,000% higher.

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      1. Ese‏ @EseConActitud 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker I wanna know the comparative rate. Even if white people murdered as many blacks as the reverse, black rate would be 6X higher.

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      1. Julia Alinsky‏ @Julia_Alinsky 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker C'mon Steven, Trump intentionally posted salacious information in order to get the media to talk about the problem, which is bad

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      1. Noel Russell‏ @rainmar7 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker wow! But you won't see discrepancies like this talked about outside Twitter.

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      1. Zed Is Not Here‏ @ZedtheVulcan 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker You click a link with Trump's name on it. Trump's schtick works, eh?

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      1. Chris Bird‏ @seabird20 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @PolitiFact I think I would prefer the daft Trump vs the truly evil Cruz.

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      1. J. Ketch  🌛‏ @JKetch89 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker Trump's retweet if you want to be pedantic. Besides, MSM & website won't point out the fact that far more blacks kill whites

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      2. The Pominator‏ @JohnnyWaygook 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @PolitiFact would love to see how many jews are killing muslims...buddhists killing buddhists. .. Christians killing others...fun

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      3. The Pominator‏ @JohnnyWaygook 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @PolitiFact then again...chimps kill chimps..lions eat cubs...and hampters...lovable lil hampters...devour their own..our nature?

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      1. The Pominator‏ @JohnnyWaygook 25 Jan 2016
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        @sapinker @PolitiFact interesting to see that people love to blame one or another. .b vs w..w vs b...seems that people are killing people hm

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      2. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate 25 Jan 2016
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        .@sapinker MSM then published the REAL crime statistics, something otherwise wouldn't do. What did Sun Tzu say about feigning incompetence?

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      3. Pale_Primate‏ @PALE_Primate 25 Jan 2016
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        .@sapinker Notice how 'PolitiFact' rated Obama's statement when he was running when it would make a diff vs to late: http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/12/27/in-2008-politifacts-2013-lie-of-the-year-that-you-could-keep-your-health-plan-under-obamacare-it-rated-true/#eba241e316ab …

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