Why is life expectancy higher in the UK than in the US?
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I noticed a sleight of hand by this 'journalist', namely that he argued that race does not account for it - and then cited only data from the UK, not the US.
Still, I don't think race is even close to explaining most or all of this. One of the worst states is West Virginia, which has a very small black population.
And it's not as if European countries don't have minorities who are, in fact, a good deal less acculturated than blacks in America are.
You've made this claim before. Can you name those EU countries?
Very small concentration of "bad" whites. More than offset by "good" ones in everywhere else.
Why does the US have so many more "bad" whites than other countries?
you have not offered any evidence in support of that idiotic, biased, anti-american conclusion. "I have no agenda here" YEAH RIGHT.
lots of other countries have plenty of "bad whites" and you have not proven anything to the contrary.
West Virginia is not a representative sample and you know it, it's an extreme outlier that you cherry picked and it has less than 1/2 of 1% of the US population.
Highest white population is Maine and you conveniently ignored it. Plenty of the skinniest states are also ones with the highest levels of non-hispanic white population, but no let's ignore all that and cherry pick 1 outlier and argue in bad faith "I don't think race is even close to explaining most or all of this."
I get tired of dealing with you when you argue in bad faith and clearly have an agenda.
That escalated quickly. I'm absolutely anti-American. No question about it. I don't like your empire. I'm also perfectly capable of saying that I think America sucks when I do.
I posted this because I was interested in what defenses people had to offer, because I'm not stupid enough to take media narratives at face value.
And most of the time in real life, when I'm talking to Europeans, I'm defending America - at least on domestic policy. Cause they say stuff like "Americans are in love with guns and that's crazy". I say, no, there are a lot of rural people who need guns for self-defense because they have to wait 2 hours on the police.
That should be a wash. It isn't though. I'm surprised no one made the argument that "people of British ancestry have similar/higher life expectancy in the US".
Right, but the extreme outlier of the US does worse than the extreme outlier of the UK. Why?
You're very angry as of late. Is anything happening? Regardless, I'm waiting for EU states with higher obesity than the US white population. I could not find them.
Well, you'll claim that I'm lying even when I'm telling you why I'm doing something, so why bother explaining myself?