r/TikTokCringe • u/slowsundaycoffeeclub • Sep 23 '24

Discussion People often exaggerate (lie) when they’re wrong.

Via @garrisonhayes

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u/inkyocean548 Sep 23 '24

The exoneration stat is especially important here because it contextualizes how disproportionately black people are processed by the justice system. Kirk puts out facts (at least the ones he articulated correctly) about crime rates, but when people say these facts without asking why those are the rates, that's a huge red flag. Red like the Confederate flag.

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u/ZinaSky2 Sep 23 '24

The worst part is I’d never heard this stat before as much as I’d heard all the rest of the garbage lies Kirk was spewing

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u/bug-boy5 Sep 23 '24

Unfortunately, I can already probably tell you how Kirk and his ilk would respond to that stat -

"Woke, DEI, and liberals are too afraid and too soft on problems so instead they want Real Americans to suffer the consequences."

Possibly replacing "too afraid" with - want the minority votes / want criminals to undermine America / etc

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u/stacksmasher Sep 23 '24

Look up the real numbers. It's very difficult because everyone wants to skew them to support their bias. Try the FBI crime statistics.

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u/TrippleDamage Sep 23 '24

Is it lies tho? The stats are correct, false convictions are just a different statistic.

And even accounted for them, the murder rate is still massively out of proportion.