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Crime statistics split by demographic are commonly used as a dog whistle by racists. The people posting them typically aren't interested in discussing the reasons behind a particular demographic committing more crime beyond asserting that it's due to inherent traits.

That those statistics were posted as a dog whistle is backed up by the user's other posts.

On Portugal's African colonies:

> The only thing to apologize is to ourselves. We should haver never went there and left you in the stone age.

> All the infrastructure we left you weren't able to maintain, as it happened with 99% of the African countries.

> Total mystery why.

Casual quotation marks around youngsters:

> And now robbing stores is becoming rampant as we can all testify by the loads of videos of "youngsters" entering stores and taking what they want without anyone doing anything.



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