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You didn’t ask a question…

I don’t have an agenda beyond trying to understand chicago’s culture of violence.

It really doesn’t matter to me who is in office.

I don’t know. He’s the one who said it.

Discussing chicago’s problem with violence shouldn’t need to be argued, but tribalism controls most of us so this is what happens.

I think it’s just the snowball effect taking hold; once most of you people believe something you have trouble believing something else. It’s all about fitting in and looking good in front of your peers. Logic be damned.

I’ll take that as a no.

What is unfair about my argument?

Looks like Chicago has the highest homicide rate for a city with its population.

Just like I pre-emptively said, criminals can more easily skew the data of lower population cities. You conveniently ignored this and posted data to support my argument.

Why does Chicago have almost twice the murder rate of Houston, the only other city in your chart with a comparable population?

If you’re trying to say Chicago doesn’t have a problem with violence because of St. Louis and we should accept it as normal, just say that.

Do you know what cognitive dissonance is?

That means chicago doesn’t have a problem with violence?

If I’m not with you, I’m against you.

That’s how tribalism works and you’re clearly not above it.

I’m going to block you now because you don’t have anything relevant or constructive to say.

Ok. If you didn’t have an answer you could’ve ignored the thread.