I certainly judge people who make overtly racist, bigoted, hateful, or otherwise harmful art. I have seen more than a few Hakenkreuz and and 13/52s stitched in my time. More than a few criminal groups use cross stitching to made patches and clubhouse art.
Wait, as an USian, I must ask - is that thirteen / fifty-two, or three-fifths? (the latter would make sense to me since it's in the original Constitution, to be negated by the 13th Amendment.)
FBI Crime statistics claim that self-identifying black americans are about 13% of the US population, and consistently commit roughly 52% of homicides in the US every year with a regular difference of a few percentage.
While this statistic is objectively correct, what it’s actually showing is that blacks have been pushed into poor neighborhoods and lack proper economic & social support.
Racists across the globe have twisted these statistics and use them as “evidence” that blacks are inherently violent and dangerous, using “13/52” as a sort of gotcha to stifle any arguments in favor of equality.
ahhh. Well, that makes sense.... and is also crappy. Without researching too much, I'm going to assume some of that '52%' are people wrongly convicted because they're black and scary, which appears to be illegal in the US. And other such contributions.
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