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Thread #161452   Message #3844890
Posted By: Steve Shaw
14-Mar-17 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
Subject: RE: BS: Uk Labour Party discussion II
Crisis, Teribus? What crisis? 😂 If there's no crisis, why are you, Keith and boobs making such a big issue out of it? If those US figures are true then hate crime against Jews in the western world's biggest nation is almost negligible! And of course it's relevant to put the statistics in the context of other crime. The reason you don't want to is that the numbers, at least the ones we've managed to squeeze out of you lot, are so low! And not one of you has yet managed to tell us the facts about the crimes - what kinds of crimes or whether they were prosecuted or merely recorded as complaints. Take this as a rather outrageous conjecture: in the US, which victim of a hate crime is likely to be taken more seriously, a Jewish victim or a Muslim victim? Who is the more likely to complain in an environment in which antisemitism is the issue of the day whereas Islamophobia comes under "don't be silly, now?" Is that really more outrageous than your claim that Muslims attacking other Muslims skew the stats? And once again, Teribus, percentages as opposed to numbers tell us nothing about the scale of the problem. From the evidence so far presented it seems that you're around 50% as likely to be struck by lightning and hundreds of times more likely to be killed by gun crime in the US that be the Jewish victim of religion-driven crime. Lies, damn lies and statistics, Teribus!