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re: Dennis Prager on why poverty does NOT cause crime
Posted on 11/18/14 at 4:02 pm to Big Scrub TX
Posted on 11/18/14 at 4:02 pm to Big Scrub TX
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However, I shut down when I see people actively waiting for the state to kill rioters.
Well - I didn't think that's what this thread was about - I'm concedeing that poverty is a risk factor for criminal activity - obviously it is not a causal relationship - there are poor non-criminals and rich criminals.
The recipe for avoiding poverty is very simple:
1. Stay in school
2. Don't have children out of wedlock
3. Refrain from engaging in criminal activity
4. Work at some kind of job
The population that does this has a 95 to 98% chance of avoiding poverty, whether it be a black kid living off Normandie in South Central L.A. or a white kid from a trailer park in Morgantown, WV, and everyone in between, North, South, East or West.
Being in poverty, generation after generation - yes there are legitimate grievances for past injustices for some populations, not the least of which include black folks - but enemy #1 is the man(woman) in the mirror.
Not liking that doesn't make it false.
This post was edited on 11/18/14 at 4:04 pm
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Posted on 11/18/14 at 5:33 pm to Ace Midnight
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The recipe for avoiding poverty is very simple: 1. Stay in school 2. Don't have children out of wedlock 3. Refrain from engaging in criminal activity 4. Work at some kind of job
Right. But again, you are starting from a different place than a lot of these kids are. If no member of your family ever owned a home or attended college or had a bank account or even showed you how to have a bank account and if you lived in perpetual fear of the "system"...you don't just carry out these simple instructions.
I know it's hard to conceive of (it's really hard for me, as I used to be the type to give the same speech you are giving now.)
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