Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt] > If you lived in the inner cities of Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, > or other cities with large black populations you wouldn't be so glib > in your attitude towards crime. > > [Arlo] > So, the problem is the presence of "blacks"? Would you say that > cities such as Auckland (New Zealand) or Reykjavik (Iceland), cities > in those "socialist" countries that have so much more crime than the > US, are safer or more dangerous than the US cities you cite?
The subject changed from crime in general to the crime of murder. In the same U.N. survey previously mentioned when only murder is taken into account, the U.S. ranks #34 in per capita incidence with Iceland #42 and New Zealand #52 out of a total of 62 countries. So I would say I am less likely to get murdered in Auckland and Reykjavik than the inner cities of the U.S. > Are you > saying that "crime" in the US, the evidence of the failure of > "intellect", is really only a problem in largely black areas? >From statistics previously cited, it appears to be a significant problem in black areas. Certainly intellect hasn't been effective in solving the problem. Wouldn't you agree? > Is it > "blacks" in Auckland and Reykjavik that are committing all the crimes > there? Hardly. > Or are "whites" committing crime in New Zealand because it is > "socialist"? Wasn't it you who suggested that crime was less in socialist countries -- because they were socialist? > On a tangent, a recent article in Time focused on the decline of Hip > Hop sales, and the trend in rap to "clean up". It touches on > capitalism, language and community. Check it out. > (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653639,00.html) OK ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
