Inconvenient fact about mass killings: White males are "underrepresented" while Blacks and Asians are "overrepresented"
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted that Blacks and Asians, from 1982 to 2021, committed 17.4% (12.3 % of the population) and 6.6% (3.6 %of the population) of mass shootings, respectively. Volokh wrote, “Non-Hispanic Whites don’t seem to commit mass shootings at greater than their share of the population. The groups that appear overrepresented are Blacks and Asians.”
An opinion piece last year in The Washington Post called “The Numbers Undercut Myths About Mass Shootings and White Men” found: “So it appears that the number of White men committing these crimes is close to what we’d expect from pure chance, maybe even slightly lower — the opposite of what we’d see if white supremacy culture were at fault.”
Again, the inconvenient fact is that White males, as a percentage of the American male population, are underrepresented when it comes to mass shooters. Black and Asian males, as to their percentage of the male population, are overrepresented. The left-wing media hyperventilate about “underrepresentation” or “overrepresentation” when it comes to poverty, prison population, admission to elite colleges and universities, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, NFL head coaches or Academy Award winners. But when it comes to mass shooters, suddenly “over-representation” becomes irrelevant.
https://thebrunswicknews.com/opinio...cle_2fe92418-cb94-5394-ae85-a644bd58abf1.html
It ain’t the white folks that are shooting up Minneapolis etc every night.
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted that Blacks and Asians, from 1982 to 2021, committed 17.4% (12.3 % of the population) and 6.6% (3.6 %of the population) of mass shootings, respectively. Volokh wrote, “Non-Hispanic Whites don’t seem to commit mass shootings at greater than their share of the population. The groups that appear overrepresented are Blacks and Asians.”
An opinion piece last year in The Washington Post called “The Numbers Undercut Myths About Mass Shootings and White Men” found: “So it appears that the number of White men committing these crimes is close to what we’d expect from pure chance, maybe even slightly lower — the opposite of what we’d see if white supremacy culture were at fault.”
Again, the inconvenient fact is that White males, as a percentage of the American male population, are underrepresented when it comes to mass shooters. Black and Asian males, as to their percentage of the male population, are overrepresented. The left-wing media hyperventilate about “underrepresentation” or “overrepresentation” when it comes to poverty, prison population, admission to elite colleges and universities, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, NFL head coaches or Academy Award winners. But when it comes to mass shooters, suddenly “over-representation” becomes irrelevant.
https://thebrunswicknews.com/opinio...cle_2fe92418-cb94-5394-ae85-a644bd58abf1.html
It ain’t the white folks that are shooting up Minneapolis etc every night.