What is the controversy surrounding #takeaknee

[John V]

Alpha, you do understand the difference between correlation and causation, don't you?

No, never heard that before.

Why is it that you're happy to discuss explainations for these statistics when the posited cause is, "black people are inherently more violent,"

Lady, you do know the proper use of quotation marks, don't you? Apparently not. Anyway, I don't believe that black people are inherently more violent than any other group. I already gave one possible environmental explanation for the fact that blacks are more violent - single parent families. The stats bear this explanation out better than the poverty explanation, as Sowell notes.

but when someone offers you an alternative explanation your response is, "the cause is irrelevant."  It's funny that you thought you could just slide right by that one without anyone noticing.  Talk about changing the conversation to make it more palatable, lol.

At the time of the interaction with police, the cause is indeed irrelevant. If a cop shot someone who was about to shoot you, you wouldn't afterward praise the cop if the assailant turned out to be rich, but condemn the cop if the assailant was poor. That would be idiotic.