SadKangaroo wrote on Jun 4
th, 2024 at 7:06am:
mothra wrote on Jun 4
th, 2024 at 6:55am:
More compellingly, and a fact so utterly lost on this lot that i'm not optimistic repeating it but seeing as it's you, Kanga:
One will find, if one is genuinely trying to collate statistics, that the numbers represented in Indigenous communities are pretty on par in all communities which suffer from significant social and economic disadvantage.
I mean, we've only know that for decades.
They're a bit slow on the uptake around here though. They think it's more melanin related.
We are certainly seeing that shift with a whole problem approach in a general sense, from greater assistance for women at risk but also a greater focus on men and their issues from mental health to isolation etc to help address the causes and reduce those numbers.
But that does underline that the intentions of those bringing this up as an Indigenous problem, because of stats, simply shows they don't care about the issue and just want to try and justify their bigoted beliefs.
Especially when they follow up with notions that we should have more white people kill more women to balance the stats as a solution, which even if they're joking, shows they don't really care.
It's just another deception to platform their hate.
Apologies, i didn't explain myself very well.
What i'm saying is that the rates of family violence in Indigenous communities are pretty much the same as the rates of family violence in disadvantaged white communities.
It's much of a muchness.
This is not an Aboriginal problem. It is a problem of social disadvantage.
People arguing that Indigenous rates are higher are being either willfuly or naively disingenuous.
But agreed, it's just a hate fest. And like all bigotry, it's just dumb projection.
I focused on the wrong part in my post but the wider point is understood, that's why helping to close the gap in their communities, as well as the socially disadvantaged in general is what stands out as a way to help reduce the number of deaths.
But "closing the gap" is a trigger phrase to them and pointing to these stats is being done to argue against that, not for it.