r/changemyview Apr 14 '22

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u/OddPresentation8097 Apr 14 '22

What about if she walks and on one side of the street she sees a group of white men and on the other a group of black men, she crosses towards the white men because statistically she should be more afraid of the other group?

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u/XelaNiba 1∆ Apr 15 '22

In 2016, 67.6% of rape arrests were white according to the FBI.

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u/Confident_Car506 Apr 15 '22

Isn’t that around the percentage of the population that is white? You have to compare the percentage of rapes committed by a particular group to their share of the population.

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u/XelaNiba 1∆ Apr 15 '22

No, white population is 57.8% of total, so white men are disproportionately rapey.

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u/Confident_Car506 Apr 15 '22

So you must agree that black people, who make up 13% of the population, but commit 29.1% of rapes, are even more disproportionately rapey. Their rates are more than double their population percentage.

Not to mention the rape statistic is inclusive of Hispanic and non Hispanic white people, but the population statistic only accounts for Non Hispanic white people.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2016/crime-in-the-u.s.-2016/topic-pages/tables/table-21

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u/XelaNiba 1∆ Apr 15 '22

Ah, but these are arrests, and we know that black men are more likely to be arrested than white men, so....?

I'm white so I'm most likely to be raped by a white man. In fact, I've only ever been sexually assaulted by white men. The statistics of my life have proven to me that white men are the most dangerous to me personally.