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Grading YouTube Essays | Why Is Black America Like That?, by Basic LogicAdded:
Hello ladies and gents.
Um I'm going to be grading this video essay 5 minutes so I don't call it essay or not.
And um my basic logic here titled why is black American like that which if the title doesn't give it off it has some very interesting arguments and um really strange thesis as we'll find so let's just start dive right into it.
Let's not beat around the bush. You've seen the clips. You've seen the statistics. The wanton disregard for public order, the absurd crime rates, fatherlessness, and the constant acts of self-sabotage.
Okay, so I have read what the [ __ ] is this thesis?
Um let's not beat around the bush. We all see it.
W- what does that mean? So the we have to infer the thesis which uh it is just a terrible way to communicate your point. Conceptualize it. What are you trying to say? Say it. Just say it.
He doesn't want to say it for obvious reasons but just [ __ ] say it.
So we all know it isn't a good thesis. The whole point of your argument is you're presenting an argument. You can't say you already have this argument. I'm just telling you you have this argument. No, that's not how it works. You got to [ __ ] tell me your argument. So we're going to just give minus five points for that.
And also don't say we've all seen the statistics and then not bring up statistics. He has this statistic here but he doesn't this is racial disparities in local jail incarceration rates.
What the [ __ ] does that even have to do with convictions?
This is not this is not a good source of conviction or like trying to show a population commits more crime.
So, and again, it's really anecdotal.
So, So, why is black America like that?
Again, the thesis. What do you mean like that? Define it. Describe it.
Conceptualize it. Don't just say like that. It's to leave it open to subjectivity as why he's doing it, but it's a terrible [ __ ] communication strategy.
Academics love to blame racism for any disparity between groups. Also, next one. Who the [ __ ] is academics?
Who?
Researchers?
What kind of researchers? From where?
What universities? What think tanks?
What do they study? Are they sociologists? Are they economists?
Criminologists? Psychologists?
Psychiatrists? Who Who the [ __ ] are you talking about?
It's like plumbers agree.
Maybe, but that's like millions of people.
groups. It's their default excuse, designed to be an unfalsifiable, all-explaining ghost. So, let's put it to the test. B- Also, if you're making an argument trying to feed an unfalsifiable uh argument, then you should know you're not going to win.
If you can't falsify something, then you can't disprove it, which means that you just reject You don't have to disprove something that you can't disprove. So, he also just contradicted himself.
Because in this video, I'm not comparing black Americans to other racial groups.
Instead, I'm comparing the character of modern black America.
All right.
I cut him off a little, but who gives a [ __ ] This is going to be the biggest thing, and it's also going to be our word of the day.
Let's hope I spell it right. Anecdote.
I probably didn't spell it right, but I don't give a [ __ ] So, what we have here is you're comparing two [ __ ] anecdotals.
Firstly, an anecdote of modern day black Americans, although he's going to whittle that down.
I don't know why he didn't [ __ ] do it already, but at the latter half of the video he's going to whittle that down.
So, not just black Americans. He's going to tighten his net, so to say.
So, you're taking one anecdote from the modern day, and then you're comparing it with another [ __ ] anecdote from a time period that you weren't even alive for.
So, we have [ __ ] versus garbage, basically. Anecdote one versus anecdote two.
At least the first one you're [ __ ] alive right now.
You weren't alive in the '60s.
All you have to go off of is like [ __ ] TV footage. So, anyway, we're going to give I know that thesis is really important, but like this is his supporting evidence for the thesis, so and it's it's immediately we have huge fallacy.
And it's just yeah.
So far not racking up too well.
Black America. A people which we can all agree suffered vastly more discrimination than modern blacks.
Let's start with the most obvious, crime.
Around 1960, All right, so firstly, um what is the rate of offending rate?
What the [ __ ] do you mean by that?
Again, you can't Like he you're just throwing [ __ ] Please explain it. Explain your evidence.
And also, you say that there isn't any offending rates from pre-'60s, but there's victimization rates from the '60s?
With a victimization rate from the pre-'60s?
Which I find that hard to believe.
And also, he sources the FBI, BJS, and CDC, which BJS is Bureau of Justice Statistics for those of you who don't know, and CDC Wait, why the [ __ ] does he cite the CDC?
I didn't even realize that. Um but if we look at the description, what we're going to see is um there's actually a big lack of citations.
And uh unfortunately, I don't think Buy Me a Coffee goes to the Bureau of Justice Statistics website. Maybe it does. Hold on, let's try.
No, it doesn't, so um yeah, so immediately we should just reject whatever the [ __ ] he's about to say because he doesn't cite it at all, so you know.
Let's just do this. And again, you can't just say source.
I want to make that one three points.
It's like for instance, I could a [ __ ] Here, I'll do it right now.
Clifford the Dog is real and he's homosexual. Source: FBI, BJS, CDC.
You believe me, don't you?
Anyway, we'll we'll dig into a little more with this uh these numbers he's about to say.
Black male homicide victimization, which works as a proxy for offending rates, was already at a staggering 42 per 100,000. By 1970, after >> Again, I know already went into where the [ __ ] are you getting these numbers from?
Jen I don't know okay, now I'll make this simple. Christopher writes, "That rate nearly doubled to 78 per 100,000, and today it rests at about 50 per 100,000."
>> [snorts] >> So, he kind of defeats his own argument because he's saying so he's saying the pre-60s, pre-Civil Rights, I don't [ __ ] know.
He doesn't define it, so I don't have to define it either.
Um that black people better off pre-60s cuz the homicide rate was lower, and today it's terrible.
But, uh last time I checked, the number 42 and 50 are pretty [ __ ] close to each other.
So, if your argument is that the homicide rate was lower back then, yeah, a smidge.
But, if anything, this just looks like a spike. And also, you're skipping what, [ __ ] like five decades? What about the '80s? What about the '90s? The 2000s? The '90s?
What about the '10s? The 2020s?
You skip five [ __ ] decades. So, like for all I know, it could look like this.
Like Oh, it could look like this.
It could look like this. It could look like this.
We don't [ __ ] know.
So, um uh again, you like you you you don't cite it.
And you can't you defeat your own [ __ ] point cuz you literally show that the homicide rate is somewhere back then.
And that's 50 out of 100,000.
42 out of 100,000.
Those are really [ __ ] close.
Also, um during the 1970s, they had this thing called the Vietnam War.
And um during the '70s under Richard Nixon, uh we did this thing called lose, where we lost the Vietnam War and a lot of people came home.
And there's a the war effect in criminology, which is whenever a war ends, the crime rate [ __ ] skyrockets cuz now you have a bunch of people that were in the military no longer in the military.
And not only that, but they were trained to kill people. And guess what? They get [ __ ] angry, dude.
So, yeah, no [ __ ] the [ __ ] homicide rate went up after Viet- the Vietnam War ended cuz you have a bunch of [ __ ] like PTSD uh veterans coming back home.
So, but you know, maybe that's just crazy.
Maybe I'm just [ __ ] maybe I'm just a little silly.
Still an increase from pre-Civil Rights time. Okay, also such a small [ __ ] increase, eight.
The increase of eight, and even that 78, that's almost double.
But like still out of a hundred [ __ ] thousand, dude.
Also, I wouldn't doubt if that's wrong.
The second, we don't know where the [ __ ] these numbers are coming from. He could be pulling out of his ass. But the rest of the world going on a massive trend of decreasing crime Also, apparently the rest of the world is whites.
And also Let me let him finish his sentence.
crime rates. You might have heard the statistic that The United States has had a huge crime rate decrease as well.
Again, if we come back to UCR Whoa, what's that? It's like a [ __ ] roller coaster the way it goes down.
So, again, it's just it's anecdotal.
It's anecdotal. It's a but he got it from the CDC.
So, he must be correct, bro. 75,000 [ __ ] subscribers. Jesus Christ.
[ __ ] I wonder how many of them even have a license.
Black people being only 13% of the population commit more than half the crime, but it is actually worse than that. Oh, hit. Because it's not black people who are committing more than half the crime, but rather a specific subsection Oh, so this is the part when Now he's whittling it down. So, he already gave a super over generalized and prejudiced take where black people commit more crime, but now he's whittling it down. So, well, it's not black people, it's actually a specific group. And it's like the Why the [ __ ] didn't you say that in the first part?
Maybe if you actually wrote a real [ __ ] thesis uh it would make [ __ ] sense, and you would have said that. But no, okay, we're going to say it at uh What is this? Like the 33% of the way through the [ __ ] video? Okay.
Not often. Black grandmas aren't going around robbing stores at gunpoint. It's specifically young black males. And when we further control for variables, we start reaching population groups which we can almost guarantee are committing crime. This has pushed some estimates for murder rates among certain black male groups to be between 1 in 100 to 1 in 20. Again, where the [ __ ] are you getting these numbers from? You know, let's just [ __ ] add another minus three for no source. Where the [ __ ] are you getting that number from?
1 in 100 1 in 20 What what What is this exact wording?
You know, let's pull up the subtitles so we can see what he says. groups to be between 1 in 100 to 1 in 20.
So, the murder rate among black youths, which again is a super broad [ __ ] category, could be possibly 1 in 20.
Also, why did Why did you make 1 here and the 20 here? I don't even get that, but anyway.
Um again, where the [ __ ] are you getting these numbers from?
Like, genuinely, where?
Oh my god.
A rate of murder so unbelievably high it makes the entire Black Lives Matter movement look like a joke with about Why?
How?
Explain how those two things are related.
Uh oops, [ __ ] That's the worst r ever.
You know that.
That's how you spell relevance.
And I spelled it right the first time.
How are those two things connected? Why is a theoretical 1 in 20 crime rate among youth African Americans in America rule like Why Why does it make BLM look like a joke? Get it like explain your evidence.
Just like oh, this homicide rate is crazy. Also, who's to say that that isn't an issue that they're dealing with either?
You don't even say what BLM's trying to do. Again, with a thesis. You're just assuming we already know this [ __ ] I don't [ __ ] know this [ __ ] I did this whole thing called go outside, so I don't know all your [ __ ] [ __ ] sources.
Oh, anyway, let's take off one for relevance.
About 90% of those murder rates are victimizing other blacks. It was Ooh, let's get into that. So, 90% is intra racial.
Uh I'm assuming he's still talking about homicide, but yeah, yeah, murder rates.
Um again, no like source. Where the [ __ ] you get these numbers from? Add another minus three.
And this is like where all your [ __ ] points go.
And um also, the vast majority of crime happens between people who [ __ ] know each other.
And you know, here's this crazy thing.
Usually, you look like the people you're born to and you're blood related to.
So, like yeah, no [ __ ] It's going to probably be a lot of interracial crime because a lot of crime is between people that [ __ ] know each other and live with each other.
So. So, why are the black youth so out of control? This is a good The next statistic I'm going to bring up is fatherlessness, which has a clear causal link with criminality. How? Cite that.
Cite that.
How?
It is a risk factor. I'm going to tell you that. Fatherlessness is a risk factor.
But what is the clear causal link? First off, I bet you don't even [ __ ] know what that means. But what is the clear causal link with criminality?
Also, you don't say link, you say relation.
Despite blacks in the 1940s suffering Actually, you know, I'm going to take off one for no source for that.
With literal segregation and vastly higher poverty rates, their families were much stronger.
Citation.
Like any evidence any [ __ ] evidence at all.
I mean, it's all [ __ ] but like where's your evidence?
Whatever they What does this text say? Listen to one rap song about gangsters and struggled in math class, folded immediately.
Basically, go to school. nation. We have a poverty refused to abandon his family or his pain. And again, this is when he turns around. It's actually this is actually I'm I'm arguing about this for black people.
And it's like, no, you're just you're just [ __ ] pissing down. That's what you're doing.
But again, like no citation, purely anecdotal. This is literally an overgeneralization and prejudice. It doesn't matter that you say like back then they were good. You're still being prejudiced about it in the modern day.
Like what the [ __ ] and vastly higher poverty rates, their families were much stronger. Back then, only 15 to 19% of black children were born to unmarried mothers. Again, no source.
Today, that number is 70 to 78%.
If you'd rather go by parental presence, today less than half of black children Source.
I'm I'm not even going to [ __ ] draw the number three. Source.
Where are you getting this from?
grow up in a two-parent household as opposed to pre-civil rights at about 78% living with both parents. These are among the worst statistics for fatherlessness worldwide.
It's worse. You compare it compare it to another country. Show me another country.
Oh, you're not going to now.
But why Why the black family been so thoroughly eviscerated?
After civil rights, Democrats strategy shifted to appeal to the expanding black voter base.
Democrats were responsible for the passage of voting rights. So, if they didn't like This is just phrasing, but you know, grammar counts, too.
And phrasing. But, yeah, they helped pass it. They didn't jump on the bandwagon after civil rights. They were part of civil rights passing.
JFK.
And what do statists usually do for votes? What is a statist? Statist. What is a statist?
Define that. Define a statist. What the [ __ ] is that? What is that?
They promise free stuff.
The war on poverty, as it was called, had begun through massive federal welfare. But, the welfare was conditional for those who, quote, needed it, and determined largely by whether or not a father was present. If a father Also, if If the authenticity of that quote is debated and you're using this as a big hit to President LBJ's character, maybe don't [ __ ] include it.
Ever thought of that?
No?
Okay.
needed it, and determined largely by whether or not a father was present. If a father was not present, single mothers could be eligible for welfare that exceeded how much money a low-income worker would get. In other words, Again, source.
How much money did they make? How much money did the average person make back then?
It's a [ __ ] citation, dude.
Like, is he How much more are they making if they do? Is it [ __ ] $10 more or $10,000 more?
[ __ ] evidence, bro.
The government directly incentivized black women to divorce their husbands.
Again, source.
Did they? Can you show me historical accounts that that was the intention with it? Don't just [ __ ] show a bunch of programs that you disagree with and say, "Oh, clearly it was because they're trying to disadvantage disin- um What the word [ __ ] word to use?
Disincentivize. Sorry. Apparently, I can't speak [ __ ] English.
Um the families from forming.
Sh- Show evidence that it that was the plan. Don't just [ __ ] show [ __ ] that you don't like and you draw these conclusions because you don't like it and this is how you perceive it. This is a super subjective [ __ ] evidence. This is super subjective and you have no supporting evidence whatsoever. No citations, no no like What about memoirs? What about legislative transcripts? What about um executive orders? What about, you know, officers in the executive branch?
What were they saying about these programs if it was so clearly to break up families? There should be [ __ ] evidence of it.
and marry the state. The policy I Also, I'm not like Yeah, I'm not a Bible guy, you know.
You like the Bible, go ahead. I think there's some good ideas in it.
But um I don't think a book written what, like 2,000 years ago, less than 2,000 years ago should be guiding modern policy, especially in a post-industrial nation.
Also, real quick, this quote. What the [ __ ] does this quote mean? Again, I'm not a Bible guy. But what does this quote mean?
Honor widows who are truly widows. What does that mean?
So now you you now you have two different [ __ ] types of widows, widows and true widows.
What is that difference? Define it.
Explain that difference. But no, you won't. You don't [ __ ] do that. What is a true widow?
And then the going on with the quote, "A widow who has children or grandchildren blah blah blah blah blah. Let widows be enrolled if she is not less than 60 years of age." But like what what the [ __ ] does this have to do with modern welfare systems? What is a true widow?
"She has grandchildren." I can't learn how to show godly as What the [ __ ] does that have to do with modern welfare and objectives?
And if any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care for them, and let the church not be burdened so that it may care for those who are truly widows. Again, what is the difference between a widow and a true and a true widow? Is a true widow like they have two kids and a non-true widow is they only have one kid? Is it that they [ __ ] I don't know, they wear blue and the other wears red? Like what the [ __ ] is the difference? Like that's really critical cuz you're your text citation is literally just saying that there's a difference and you are not explaining that difference.
Outcomes cannot be denied. All reversals of black America's progress started during this period. The state, of course, had to justify the cost of this massive welfare scheme to the rest of the American pop- Again, what do you mean by scheme? Explain that. What the [ __ ] do you mean by welfare scheme? What does that mean? Define it. Holy [ __ ] And [ __ ] knock off points for no definition.
Yeah, we'll do the minus two.
population claiming that it was the white man's burden, his Excuse me.
Did he just say that the word poverty was the white man's burden?
So, for those who don't know, the white man's burden was used to justify colonialism.
And uh culture and and I say that with huge [ __ ] quotations, savages.
Yeah, in other words, the people who's lived there before it they took over.
And this was like they it was even a contentious thing back then.
But how are you going to use a racist justification to debunk welfare that actively helped a racial minority.
Like that, that's [ __ ] insane. That's just insane.
It's insane. Also, I'm pretty sure they didn't say it was a white man's burden.
I'm pretty sure it was a national burden. And also, shouldn't a country care for its citizens, too?
Just a little idea there.
Historical injustice had created this poverty, and so it was white people's jobs to fix it. Did it not?
Explain how it wasn't. Uh historical injustice that caused that poverty. Explain why it wasn't historical injustice.
Oh, you can't? Oh, okay.
Since the black fathers were now removed from the picture, black families lost their own protectors and providers. What do you mean by that?
Providers, okay, they're the breadwinner. Protector, well, like if a burglar [ __ ] broke in. Like, what do you mean by that?
Again, how would that affect the Could the woman work or could the woman not work? Like, again, [ __ ] go into this [ __ ] bro.
And so this became a permanent situation. Should we be surprised that young black men who grew up without a father live in a society that sabotaged the main source of commitment in a man's life, marriage, and are taught not to take responsibility for their own lives, and that all their problems are white people's fault, that they would become disenfranchised and delinquent.
Therefore, Oh, hold on. All right, so he's kind of getting to anomie theory.
Which anomie is like frustration at not achieving uh societal success or some [ __ ] like that. It's It's roughly what it is.
Like if they're told that like all their problems aren't their fault, wouldn't that enfranchise them if the state was telling them that?
Like I'm I'm just trying to think about this uh you know, with basic logic. See what I did there?
What if someone told me that all my problems weren't my fault?
Then I guess I would get angry, but I also might not get angry. I might be like, "Oh, damn. That's crazy."
I guess again, I mean that's super subjective. I mean his [ __ ] whole theory is super subjective. And also, I'm sorry, but not having a father is a huge risk factor.
And a risk factor is like you know, if you're looking at the positivist school of criminology, it's um you know, it's an indicator of whether or not you're going to become an offender.
And it's um something that pushes you towards offending. Not having a father is a huge risk factor, but it's not the only risk factor. And also, one risk factor doesn't [ __ ] make you criminal.
It requires a a lot of risk factors or a couple of really big risk factors. And marriage, again, marriage can be a turning point, which is the opposite of risk factor.
But not being married doesn't immediately mean you're going to commit crime. Or being married doesn't immediately mean you're not going to commit crime.
Like I mean, think about the [ __ ] mafia.
You know, they have the big ass weddings all the time. They could They were committing crime at the [ __ ] wedding, probably.
What we're left with today is a perpetual underclass, which abandoned their families, murdered their own brothers, and forsake the rule of law.
Again, anecdotes. It's What is this? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 uh eight eight like pictures and news clippings.
Again, the only one I recognize is this one where they like he stabbed her on the subway.
But again, it's like you got eight cases. So what?
So what? This isn't even about crime.
This is just about people on Snap.
If anything, this should speak to like economic inequality.
So, you got eight [ __ ] headline clippings. So what?
Kept financially afloat by guilt-tripping the same people they blame for Also, like again, like that picture that just popped up the bottom.
That's kind of beneath the the headline or uh the closed caption.
I I can kind of make out the whiteboard.
All white people are racist. Again, what does this lady have to do with [ __ ] crime?
What does one person's [ __ ] opinion have to do with your overgeneralization of an entire [ __ ] group of people?
older problems. All our lives, we were taught to judge by the content of one's character. And the content of modern black America's character is lacking.
And also, he you know, he's kind of spinning uh MLK Jr.'s quote there.
Where, you know, judge someone by their character. It's ironic how he [ __ ] spins that because MLK judge someone by their character, not by how they look. So, like treat everyone as an individual. Judge them individually.
And yet, you literally just made a um prejudiced overgeneralized remark in the same sentence of black Americans' character. Which is So, it's all black Americans. So, you're judging all black Americans while quoting a quote that is saying, "Don't judge people as groups. Judge people as individuals."
They can now serve only as an example for all other groups that wish to be the best version of themselves.
Also, like the welfare state. Yeah, you you want to say it's bad. Okay. Is it better than like firebombings and the KKK and like public lynchings?
Is it better than that?
Or is that better than the welfare state? Like Like, I'm sorry, but I think I'd take the welfare state over um my fellow citizens getting [ __ ] hanged by vigilantes.
That's just my opinion.
Anyway, um let's tally up the score. Let's see. 5 15 18 21 24 27 28 29 31. You got -31.
That's um not good. I actually don't know what it's out of. So, let's just do what he does and make up a number.
1,001.
So, that's not good.
Um yeah. This is what this guy does. You get the idea. It's shitty.
Anyway, thank you for listening.
Um this was pretty much ranty.
Um unlike him, I'm going to actually include sources in the description.
And I'll have to go back to see what I should source, but yeah.
Thank you, and um basic logic.
Yeah, sure. Sure ain't using any [ __ ] critical thought.
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