Posted on 06/01/2011 6:57:20 AM PDT by mcosta79
John Langley, the creator of the long-running FOX program, COPS...says he's irked by some media critics who accuse the show of perpetuating stereotypes about "people of color" by depicting a disproportionate percentage of minority suspects. Au Contraire, Langley protests, he intentionally shows an inordinate number of white suspects in order to side-step the facts. "I show more white people than, statistically, what the truth is."
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I’m not responding to all of you on this genetic predisposition thing. Just start reading on it and you will see. It is indisputable. Just get on Google for a bit and then come back and insult me with some information where MAO A gene patterns in black populations has been refuted as a genetic marker to violence. I think you will re-assess your skepticism.
WHAT? So you mean Hollywood practices political correctness at the expense of the TRUTH??!! GEE WHIZ!!! Seems IMPOSSIBLE, doesn’t it!!!
Um, no , why don’t YOU provide the statistics, seeing as you’re one of the ones making the ridiculous “genetic” argument. And while you’re at it, make sure you do a “compare and contract” to all those killed in Europe (whites killing whites, if I remember correctly) during WW1 and WW2. Or how about the American Civil War? Need I continue?
I hope you didn’t take my questioning as “insulting”.
I’m not even sure, however, that your studies of MAO-A gene patterns is conclusive of a genetic predisposition to violence. Genetic isolation and cultural isolation go hand in hand, having a common cause, but not a causATIVE relationship.
IE, there is a correlation between MAO-A gene patterns and the black population, and there is a correlation between violent cultural tendencies and the black population,
but there is/may be no _causation_ between MAO-A gene patterns and violent tendencies.
What verse is that?
You have a skewed view of the show then.
Judge Judy and other court shows have what seem to be an inordinate number of blacks suing one another. What I notice, however, is that dumb doesn’t discriminate. Whites on camera suffer from the same ailment. It’s sad, though, to see the English language mutilated so badly on a regular basis.
Didn’t Philly recently complain that an inordinate number of black crimes were being reported/prosecuted? It gave the city and black residents a bad reputation. Maybe businesses fleeing the city, etc.. Urban blight, Detroit here we come.
Very depressing. Slavery was the dumbest thing America ever did.
Those stories do not bode well for things to come.
Wow. Source?
The genetic racial predisposition thing has been used by nazis and other eugenicists forever. I’m descended from germanic barbarians and have yet to rape and pillage my way across a single continent.
The morons who say look at Africa are ignoring the africa of the past where there were plenty of peaceful tribes and no more violence than anywhere else. Africans have been killing each other for thousands of years, europeans have been killing each other for thousands of years, asians have been killing each other for thousands of years and native Americans were killing each other for thousands of years.
Hip hop/rap “music” certainly doesn’t help.
Do you think war deaths are a valid comparison to crime?
Your lack of a source leads me to believe you are just a race troll.
Many people have committed the “correllation is causation” logic fallacy on many topics. Race is such a volatile issue, though, that it is easy to jump to the conclusion that someone who makes this fallacious argument is a “racist”.
Well, come on, now ... get with the program!
How big of an area have you raped and pillaged your way across?
Start small ... say, your bedroom ... and then work your way up to your neighborhood and then your city. Pretty soon, you'll be raping and pillaging whole counties and states and, before you know it, you've worked your way up to continents.
bkmk
To the best of my knowledge there is not a single genetically mandated voluntary behavior.
All violence is voluntary. People CHOOSE to kill, assault, batter, steal, rape etc. People can just as easily CHOOSE to not perform thsoe behaviors.
So whether there is a genetic correllation is entirely beside the point. People are responsible for their behavior no matter why they behave that way. (Certain mentally deranged (severely retarded) persons may be possible exceptions).
Blacks commit more crimes because blacks CHOOSE to commit more crimes and they should be punished accordingly. ALL VIOLENT CRIME IS INTENTIONAL
Well I am fixing to pillage the fridge here pretty soon.
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.
1 Corinthians 7:17 American Standard Version
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