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<p>I hope you don’t get stuck in a bus with your best friend and the rest of his family. YIKES right?</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA. Racist jacka$$</p>
<p>Yea. This is not about racism. Sketchy areas statistically have more African Americans and Hispanics occupied. I don’t know if African Americans and Hispanics tend to cause more crimes, but ti is what it is.</p>
<p>^That’s a cop out, it’s not what it is at all. That was a racist quote and she called him out on it. A lot of people called him out on it, that was just plain not cool. Any place where you’re likely to be shot/mugged/raped/beaten/converted/etc is dangerous and sketchy, not because of the ethnicity of the person doing it. You’re trying to get into UCLA aren’t you Hutt? Use the brain you would use to try and get in and engage it, think!</p>
<p>Don’t conflate descriptive statements with racism. Obviously equating high-crime areas with ethnicity is an overgeneralization at best, as there are some very nice neighborhoods with a large percentage of minority residents. Trust me, I know - I live in such a neighborhood back home. Crime is better correlated with socioeconomic status. Statistically, African Americans/Latinos as an aggregate tend to be worse off income-wise than their Asian/White counterparts in California, so where you have mostly black/Latino neighborhoods with a lot of buses/public transit (the demand for such being created by large concentrations of residents who cannot afford personal vehicles), then that neighborhood probably has a higher incidence of crime. </p>
<p>Obviously, the buses themselves are not dangerous. I rode the bus/light rail to and from high school for four years and I still practice the same common sense I did when I was 14 (packing away electronics, staying alert, etc.) no matter where I am or who is on board.</p>
<p>But wait, you say, I’m still racist because I think blacks/Latinos commit more crimes than Asians/whites. Well, uh, statistically speaking, they do. Why do you think Israeli airports are the most secure in the world when they use the same technology as everybody else? It’s because they openly and aggressively profile non-Hebrews. Is it effective? Yes. A foreigner is significantly more likely to attempt to blow up an airliner than a Hebrew person is. Is profiling ethical? Maybe not. Most Israelis, including non-Hebrews, don’t care what the answer is, because it is the price they pay for safety.</p>
<p>SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS do not commit crimes because of their socioeconomic status or ethnicity. CONCENTRATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS who share a similar socioeconomic status and ethnicity will have an aggregate tendency to commit either greater or fewer crimes. This isn’t racism. The claim that I am racist is predicated off of the fact that the associated trait in question is negative (crime). But the concentration model works literally for anything. Where there are CONCENTRATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS who are largely Mexican-American, there is an aggregate tendency for there to be more Mexican restaurants/establishments in the area. And so on, so forth.</p>