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Originally Posted by Paul D
Maybe the uni isnt in the suburbs and they're scary people he refuses to be around.
Sometimes when we read something, we interpret it one way, but then if we read it closely, we see it means something a bit different. My post, the core of which was, "all things considered, I'd prefer to live in low crime areas" was basically wondering why Ikes, who seems really concerned about crime and minorities, would want to go to med school in the most crime ridden, minority having place the country?
The rest of my post, if cast in an unfavorable light, basically had the content of, "If I could go to a school in a place that's 10% black vs 50% black, given standard crime statistics, I'd prefer the 10% black place."
Now, this may seem shockingly racist, but it has the virtue of being true of every white person on this board, particularly those, like Ikes, who look at the TM/GZ affair and argue, implicitly or explicitly, "we'll damn, we know the black guy did something wrong--you gotta keep an eye on them (because they steal) and if they jump you it's ok to shoot them because that's a reasonable threat to your life." In fact, much of that thread is a debate between people who think different implications can or cannot be drawn given what is know about what transpired (e.g., "TM willingly laid in wait for GZ so he could attack him to teach him a lesson" vs "TM was probably trying to get back safely to the apt and may have been lost and felt the need to defend himself when he saw GZ was very near.")
I know this is complex, and I have better things to do than defend myself from the infirmities of your reading comprehension, and, unlike some posters who make 200+ post threads when they feel they have been called a racist, I'm actually not that concerned about whether you think I'm racist. However, it is annoying to read posts framed in a clever "gotcha" modality, that are neither clever nor gotcha.