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Crowders hilarious and I'm assuming youtube just banned it because it was easier then jumping through literal hoops to correct him factually
You can't "correct" truthful anecdotes. They don't pretend to be representative of a statistical pattern. Maybe there is a genuine pattern as well, but that's beside the point. Mainstream media does the same thing as Crowder did in this instance, for example wall-to-wall coverage of a specific event that supports the network's views and objectives. A police shooting involving a black victim will receive disporportate coverage in the media that is out of whack with its' statistical reality. Although there are no outright lies, putting a magnifiying on certain events and omitting others is a form of deception because it distorts the event's prevalence and importance in the mind of the public. Americans are convinced crime is worse than it's ever been when it's at historical lows compared to previous decades, and they're scared of being killed by mass shooters but not by heart disease, when the latter is an untold factor of magnitude more likely. Public perception and statistical reality rarely match. There's nothing logically bannable in what Crowder did, not any more than you can go after networks for it. It only makes sense for people that have a child's level of reasoning, which sadly is a huge chunk of the population.