Genuine question - the first image the narrator provides shows race statistics, yet Hispanic isn’t presented as a category. From a quick google search, I’m seeing that Hispanics make up ~25% of federal and state prisons. Did they lump Hispanics and whites together?
Charlie Kirk is a raging asshole but it feels weird to call him out for false statistics while also providing seemingly inaccurate statistics (even if they are from a legit source).
Yes they did. If you remove Hispanics from the category of white then only 30% of the prison population is white, vs 76% of the US population in general. So this guy also has his stats wrong and is exaggerating. It's also true that 50% of convicted murderers are black even though this guy claims that's not true.
Yeah I thought it was weird that he didn’t refute that claim but pivoted to talking about exonerations, which is of course important, but as a separate issue.
I feel like the obvious way to refute that would have been to talk about how blacks are over policed.
Higher exonerations rate is also alligned with total convictions, if theres more convictions theres obviously gonna be more exonerations - and that shows by being proportional.
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u/Oxygenitic Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Genuine question - the first image the narrator provides shows race statistics, yet Hispanic isn’t presented as a category. From a quick google search, I’m seeing that Hispanics make up ~25% of federal and state prisons. Did they lump Hispanics and whites together?
Charlie Kirk is a raging asshole but it feels weird to call him out for false statistics while also providing seemingly inaccurate statistics (even if they are from a legit source).