• jimmux@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    I would actually like to know what he was leading to with that question. Is the implication that gangs have an overrepresentation of trans people? Or that gang violence doesn’t count for some reason?

    I guess we’ll never know.

    • Deme@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Pointing out that gangs do a lot of violence is an attempt to shift blame onto the demographic groups which are overrepresented in gangs due to socioeconomic reasons (systemic racism).

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s a deflection technique. The intention was to not answer or address the question at all, but to shift to another topic he could more easily use to manipulate his audience. If you’ve ever watched him “debate” he was a master of deflection.