As you’ll recall, I got locked (or whatever they call it) at Twitter for a perfectly factual and polite tweet about a massively important social trend:
I appealed once, got turned down, then appealed a second time, figuring that Twitter’s process is probably arbitrary and random so that it shouldn’t be judged on a sample size of one.
But after about 36 hours, I had gotten no response to my second appeal.
So I took lots of screen shots of my supposedly horrific tweet and hit the Remove button. (For whatever reason, Twitter wants to claim that they didn’t delete your tweet, you deleted it yourself. It’s supposed to be kind of like how in Waugh’s Decline and Fall when the old Harrovian Captain Grimes gets in the soup again during the Great War and his fellow officers, not wanting to have to condemn him to a firing squad, leave him with his revolver and a bottle of whisky. See below the break for an excerpt from Waugh.)
So, I finally, deleted my innocuous tweet, and got back this message:
Obviously, I’m being punished for telling the truth.
Yes, blacks are the victims and/or perpetrators in a majority of all homicides in the U.S. In the FBI’s 2021 stats, blacks made up 59.4% of known murder victims and 60.4% of known murder offenders:
The CDC tracks victims of homicides (homicides are a superset of murders), but not perpetrators. In 2021, 55.0% of all homicide victims were non-Hispanic blacks in the CDC stats.
In 2019, 9,951 non-Hispanic blacks died by homicide, but in 2021, 14,313 did, an increase of 4362, or 43.8%.
In 2019, 9190 nonblacks of all other races and Hispanic ethnicity died by homicide, which rose to 11,718, an increase of 2528 or 27.5%.
So, as usual, when it comes to total national homicide stats going up or down, the “racial reckoning” saw blacks driving the trend.
As far as my last sentence, “During the BLM Eras, black homicides a[nd] black traffic fatalities have trended together,” that’s readily seen in CDC WONDER data on causes of death. It’s one of the more important discoveries in the current social sciences to see that when cops retreat to the donut shop during both the Ferguson Effect (2015-2016) and the Floyd Effect (2020-?), both black homicides and black motor vehicle fatalities go up, presumably due to lack of policing.
So, my tweet merely summed up state of the art data on these questions of grave public import.
It would be interesting if the new management of Twitter were to comment on the situation.
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