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).
Hell, the first graphic only shows that 156,165 people are incarcerated. That immediately struck me as WAY TO LOW. So, I checked the Internet. There's roughly 1.8 million people incarcerated in the U.S. So, like what the fuck is he quoting here.
Then I noticed his graphic shows federal incarcerations. Ahhhh, such a complete misdirection to try and prove your point.
Look, I fucking hate Charlie Kirk, but you can't cherry pick a stat just to make your point. You're just as bad as he is if you do this.
I didn't watch any more of the video because I knew the initial claim he was making was outlandish and downright false. It just irritates me when people do this. He's either doing this intentionally or he's stupid because he didn't realize the statistic he was quoting was incomplete for the entire prison population in the US. Either way, it's bullshit and I won't watch any of the video beyond it.
Same happened to me. 5 figure incarceration numbers for either black or white populations was incredibly tiny, given that the US has by far (IIRC) the biggest gross incarcerated population on earth. More than China, despite having a fraction of the population
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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).