re: Family of 5 killed in Oklahoma

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You started it by throwing out a one off mass killing involving white people like it is something as common place as randomized street violence that plagues urban areas.

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This board deserves tweaking, because regardless of the nature of the crime, you very well know there is a significant % of posters who IMMEDIATELY will make it about race.

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Coates and ilk regularly talk about the severe threat facing black men by white men/police, which is nonsensical.

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I disagree that it's nonsensical to point out that black bodies are cheap in the eyes of America.

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The truth is that violence in the black community likely has a lot of causes, but one of the major ones is a culture that has grown to ignore the violence and accept it as the cost of being a part of the black community.

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Yeah, that's potentially true.

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While I'm sure there is some of that in the white meth head community, for killings like this where someone goes nuts and slaughters his/her family, what cultural items contribute to that? Is there some pervasive force in the white community that says "oh yeah, be a man, slaughter your family?" No. And you know that, but you tried to make a comparison out of two things you knew need not be compared to poke at this board.

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You are right, I was not attempting to be subtle. I was "poking at this board" and it's perpetual lack of subtlety on such matters.