oil & water

First off, I have no doubt that any city that increased its size by 200,000 people in a single week would experience some increase in crime. The 200,000 people who live in this yellow city manage to commit a crime or two.

And Houston’s never been a pleasant place, nor has it ever been a particularly crime-free town. Personally, based on my few nasty, brutish, and mercifully short stays in Houston, I would’ve expected more kvetching to run the other way, from evacuee to adopted city.

But there were premonitions of this backlash, even this far north. The week of the hurricane, when we expected thousands of evacuees in Amarillo, rumors spread darkly around town that they were sending sex criminals and murderers up here, that prison walls had been thrown open and the inmates shown the way to Amarillo.

As we’ve seen in the comments section of this blog in recent weeks, extant racist fear & hatred leads inevitably to trumped-up statistical justifications of that hate.

Now. How long will it take the troll racisttexan to fill up the comments under this post with pseudoscience about head sizes and I.Q.’s he read in this man Goddard’s book The Rise of the Colored Empires?

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