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disciples_of_dissent t1_irnqbmz wrote

I've yet to see avideo of a bunch of white eighth grade boys flashing their glocks at school. It's a cultural issue.

(I'm fully expecting to be downvoted for pointing out truth, as much as we want to deflect and point at other reasons.)

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Kelrakh t1_irqz55d wrote

Going from Thomas Sowell's thinking I'd say the main thing is subcultures where male self-assertion is used as a replacement for male achievement.

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disciples_of_dissent t1_irratz1 wrote

I also believe this culture extends beyond just black kids, I believe anyone growing up in that culture has this mentality (whites, blacks, hispanics, asians). We just see the videos of the black kids.

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Kelrakh t1_irsxehc wrote

Yeah it's pretty similar in gangs in Japan Korea Asia, even mafia in various places. Essentially if you don't have any prospect of achievement then you have to assert yourself somehow, if that is in your personality as it is with many people.

After a while the subculture starts mimicking that behavior even when the economic prospects and opportunity is present.

It's a lot easier to just self-assert yourself in the moment than spend years building up life achievements to gain a strong self-image that way.

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Kenilwort t1_irrmop2 wrote

Maybe not flashing glocks, but flashing plenty of other types of guns and illegal stuff, sure. And I have yet to see a photo of a bunch of black eighth grade boys flashing their glocks in school either, because that's not something I search on Google to adhere to my selectivity bias.

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clozepin t1_irrm4nu wrote

Have you not seen the white family Christmas cards where they’re all holding various guns? Cause I sure have.

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gugudan t1_irnufpm wrote

Do you have videos of eighth grade boys of any ethnicity flashing their Glocks at school?

Or data that links eighth graders flashing Glocks at school with these hundreds of shootings?

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