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Originally Posted by bizaro86
So you took a snippet quoted in a newspaper out of a book you haven't read and used that to infer a well argued thesis that supports your own biased view.
That's obviously superior to debating the point I brought up, that higher crime rates exist among economically disadvantaged races in countries without private prisons, suggesting the link between private prisons and racial incarceration is probably made up by the tinfoil hat crowd.
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You're a little all-over-the-place (partly my fault) and a little adversarial, but I'll try to address your arguments.
-poverty does cause crime. You're not the first to crack that nut.
-how do international incarceration rates (like the one's in the graph I started the thread with) support the assertion that private prisons and incarceration rates are unrelated? Because more poor people get arrested there too?
-I do not oppose improving the educational system, and I am puzzled that you think I do. Do you think it's one-or-the-other?
-"life of crime" is not the factor you think it is. If possessing pot is "a life of crime" then there are a lot of criminals on CP alone.
Finally, you argue that there is racism in the economy, yet continue to harp that there is no racial element when excessively punishing the poor.
How do you harmonize those arguments?