I call for in all seriousness : why is it taboo ( or confutable ) for whitened kids to outwit up not - white kid ? I entail , if the beating is specifically for heathenish ground then , yeah , that ’s bad . But material life ( at least the one with which I am intimate ) is n’t like a Brinks Home Security commercial where all crime is perpetrated by white street rowdy in stocking cap who look like they should be somewhere exact that you “ stay offa da Eagle ’s turf . ” If you ’re going to tick up criminals in New York , you ’re going to have to beat up a lot of people of all races – but mostly minorities .
Unsurprisingly , it was the last sentence that people had most trouble with :
IkeBenson : “ you had me judder my head in accord until ‘ but mostly nonage ' ” Evlsusji : “ WOW . I ’m not gon na even TOUCH this one . ” jp182 : “ you obviously do n’t watch Law & Order do you ? Even that fictional show about offence in NYC shows sight of white-hot malefactor . ”
gbryant seek to explain :
Yeah , I compute that might cause some uncomfortableness and , for that , I rationalize . I do , however , fend by the assertion that Blacks and Latinos are creditworthy for a disproportionate amount of street offense in NYC ; therefore it is entirely reasonable to depict a street crime battler in NYC beating up Blacks and Latinos . Now , it is an assertion based largely on anecdotical information as I seem to have the toilsome time finding any data regarding the subspecies of reprehensible perpetrators in NYC that would serve to either affirm or deny my gut feeling .
That did n’t calm down everyone , though :
crashfrog : “ It ’s about economic science , not race . The racial disparities among criminals are a symptom of the differing class egress that send people into different kinds of criminal offense , not anything having to do with subspecies on it ’s own . Race , after all , does n’t solely exist . ” Evlsushi : “ My stage is that racial discrimination throw people see what they desire to see about stereotypes . This is why racial profiling is such a unfit forged trouble in NYC ( and L.A. for that matter ) . If constabulary investigate blacks more than White then of form it ’s going to look like white people are n’t as responsible for as many crimes … Also , to speak your first military post , I suppose the trouble with have a white tyke beat up ONLY blacks and Latino is the fact that minorities have a chronicle in cinema for being portrayed as thugs and criminals . have a white kid overreach up some black hoi polloi reverberate force during the civil right hand era for a deal of mass . I ’m all for adequate chance ass kicking , but it ’s stupefy ta be balanced . ”
That was my original problem with the comic , I opine ; that it seemed imbalanced for the white kid to only be going after non - livid criminal . But then again , maybe it ’s all in my head . After all , as brucifer said ,
Frankly , it ’s upper middle family snowy liberal guilt that get it taboo . It ’s also a reverence that if they enjoy a movie where a white kid beats up a opprobrious kid , they are racists .
So now we know .
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