35 Weird, Fascinating, And Disturbing Statistics About Pretty Much Everything

The time of the Vietnam war was also a time of social upheaval, and the country was divided about the war. I believe you're spot on about the acceptance (or lack of) when the soldiers returned home.

Part of the problem was that in WWII you went as a unitand after the war it was months before you were released so there was a period of cooling down with your comrads. In contrast to Vietnam, they went as individuals and came home as individuals. I have read stories of soldiers going from being in a firefight in the jungle one day to being released and sitting in their kitchen at home a day or two later with a WTF on their face. They were used and tossed out.

WW2 was much more popular and support for conscription was almost universal. There were very few conscientious objectors to WW2. There was also a very successful campaign to frame WW2 in heroic and positive terms. The US killed millions of German and Japanese civilians, many, many more than were killed in Vietnam, but the cause was seen as just. Vietnam was extremely unpopular from the start, over 25% of all combat soldiers were drafted and many more volunteered to avoid combat assignments. So a good portion of the soldiers were forced to fight.

ww2 had a defined enemy and that enemy had a defined category of evils that needed to be defeated ..... can't say the same about Vietnam . To see that degree of pointless death for zero reason and zero justification is gonna mess you up

They were fighting in a war that was alien to them. Peace at home probably didn't feel under threat.

WW2 wasn't a half-hearted attempt to stop Communism.

WWII the soldiers were seen as victorious heros where as Vietnam was viewed by the public at large as a loss therefore making them supposed losers. Kids that didn't want to fight in a place they didn't belong fighting a war they could not "win". It's truly a shame. Pointless and unjustifiable....

Agent orange

My uncle too. He was sent to Germany during 'Nam. He wasn't like any of his brothers. I assume the war might be a reason....

It seems that way to me too, K O, and I live here.

I live in the US. There’s a good faction of the population who desperately wants a “Purge” type situation

As a US Citizen, I can tell you this country SUCKS

I’m here. You are not wrong. Fox and Friends are cultivating them.

It's post like these that show me how ignorant people are of their own countries. Look at the stats comparing AUS to USA, https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Australia/United-States/Crime. USA is worse but not by a huge margin and USA has estimated 307 million MORE people than Australia, so how come your crime rates are so close to America's? Also the serial killer part is funny as AUS has caught and convicted 35 of some of the worst serial killers I have ever read. All these things are searchable so pls enjoy. I will be downvoted but people need to open their eyes to their own counties problems before they sing about the issues of others. Let's stick with AUS hows your treatment of the indigenous people going? Alcoholism? Education?

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You can stay away we dont need you

gotta love systemic racism

False information! Do not just grab the number that fits your agenda. Non- Hispanic Whites are 60% of the US population while blacks are just under 13.5%. Statistically, as a percentage of the population, blacks commit far more total crimes and significantly more murders. If you commit more crimes then it stands to reason you will encounter police more often. Here are the FBI crime stats for totals and categories. If you don't do the math, your assumptions will always be wrong. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/table-43 Screen-Sho...7a-png.jpg

This is the comment I was looking for. Thank you for pointing out overpolicing of minority communities and systematic racism, Kathryn.

If you downvote me for this sourced data, please understand what you are doing: You are voting to censor truth because it doesn't fit your political narrative. You may see it as partial truth (ALL truth is partial truth), so by all means, please add to it. I could go on for hundreds of years adding nuance and context, but I chose to add the part of the truth that is rarely mentioned.

“the grim reality of crime in America is that 91% of people who kill black people are other black people” is misleading (and off by 2%). It sounds shockingly high when that number is considered alone, until you see that stat is almost the same for white people. From your 2019 FBI source the % of white people killed by other white people is 79%, and black people killed by black people is 89%. Their 2018 chart gives similar percentages (81% for white people, 89% for black).

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As long as prisons are for profit they aren't going to care what color you are. They'll throw you in as long as they are meeting their quota. I agree that systemic racism is a thing. It's glaringly obvious it exists. What I dislike about all these "statistics" are the fact that they are statistics. Numbers that can and always will be manipulated to serve whatever agenda needs the numbers. Also, posting this stuff does absolutely nothing to solve the problem. I am tired of people posting the problem and never putting forth a solution to counter it. Systemic racism is but one of many problems with our system because the whole thing is corrupt. If we solved this one problem how much would that actually solve and which new problem would we spend billions thinking about solving. Nah tear it down and start from scratch. That's what you do with an infestation.

Also, most homicides are within racial groups. Most white homicide victims are killed by white people, most Asian homicide victims are killed by Asian people. This is partly due to the fact that a murderer is usually in some way associated with the victim, though there are other factors too. Serial killers usually stay within race boundaries though it is not a hard rule. Exception in the US; most Native American homicide victims are killed by non-Natives. Things to make you go hmm.

This is a lot of energy to say something that justifies deadly force against the perpetrators of the "majority of murderers".

I don't, and I live here

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