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tptacek on Oct 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Three Years on Rikers Without Trial

"it's not their fault most of the time"?

The people in this country most oppressed by crime are not well-off conservative white people. Crime is a scourge of low-income communities, and most of it is violent.

swartkrans on Oct 3, 2014 [–]

I was simply saying that victims are most often not to blame for being a victim. I didn't expect that to be a controversial statement.

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