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#4084

Criminality in African-American communities can entirely be attributed to socio-economic factors.

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After 4 votes and with 22 points ahead, the winner is...

AustinL0926
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Description

Definitions:

Criminality: the quality or state of being criminal
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/criminality

African American: an American of African and especially of Black African descent
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/African%20American

Socioeconomic: of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and economic factors
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socioeconomic

I believe that disproportionate criminality in African-American communities is entirely a consequence of socioeconomic factors.

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@AustinL0926

I figured

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@PREZ-HILTON

BTW I wasn't the one who reported that vote, it would be pointless anyway.

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@PREZ-HILTON
@AustinL0926
@gachichibro

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@Wylted

(╯°Д°)╯︵/(.□ . \)

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@AustinL0926

Because I knew it would get under your skin 😂

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@Wylted

Y no conduct points

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@AustinL0926

Thank you for keeping archives. I will need them if the site goes down. There is a one term limit here and so I can't run again and the candidate I support and whose campaign I secretly run will be advised to keep their distance from me and to openly disavow me.

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@Wylted

FYI don't even try it, because I have an archive of hundreds of your posts from here and DDO.

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@Wylted

You may be a weird guy, but I appreciate your consistency.

In this debate, I would as a voter assume shared BOP.

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@AustinL0926

I appreciate that, but my main goal is to have you go on record saying something that could potentially be misconstrued as racist so I can use it to discredit you next presidential election, so my preferred candidate wins

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@Wylted

Yea, obviously I'll put smth in the fourth round about mental illnesses or the like - I technically don't need to, but some voters tend to assume the bop is shared.

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@AustinL0926

It could just be like a one sentence premise. A bare assertion

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@Wylted

I consider myself an efficient lazy person.

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@AustinL0926

You should at least give one premise for your position.

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@Public-Choice
@AustinL0926

Wylted is the first Jamaican president of Dart.

What do you mean by there is no race (shorthand terminology referring to skin color)?

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@Wylted

I'm saying black people don't inherently have a different prefrontal cortex than anyone else, and that testosterone has not been linked to crime in years.

The prefrontal cortex in every rece is the same size, because there's no "races."

https://www.mentalhealthjournal.org/articles/prefrontal-cortex-response-to-threat-race-by-age-variation-in-9-10-year-old-children.html

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2020.8a16

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@Public-Choice

Are you saying the prefrontal cortex isn't the portion of the brain that is responsible for impulse control and that high testosterone males are not more likely to commit crimes?

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@Public-Choice

Judging by many of his past comments, I'm pretty sure he's not joking.

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@Wylted

I sincerely hope you're joking.

Your hormones and brain structure don't make you a criminal. That stuff has been debunked since the 90s.

Hope I didn't influence the debate. I was thinking of accepting so thinking out loud about tactics before I knew it was accepted

Hope I didn't influence the debate. I was thinking of accepting so thinking out loud about tactics before I knew it was accepted

I also hope frontal lobe development is the exact same in blacks as non blacks and that the frontal lobe has zero correlation with impulse control that can effect rates of crime

I certainly hope there are zero genes or hormones linked to violence that are more common in African Americans than non blacks