Why are people in kentucky lynching census workers?

You have to find the exception before you can start to discredit the statistics. Does anyone know a genius from Clay County or even a surrounding county? Anyone?

In fact, I'd say those percentages of uneducated people are even higher since it's not like the census dodgers (and anti-government folk) are exactly the brightest group.
 
[quote name='depascal22']You have to find the exception before you can start to discredit the statistics. Does anyone know a genius from Clay County or even a surrounding county? Anyone?

In fact, I'd say those percentages of uneducated people are even higher since it's not like the census dodgers (and anti-government folk) are exactly the brightest group.[/QUOTE]

Yup - it's totally the cool thing now to lump people together and stereotype them. All Jews are greedy, all Muslims are terrorists, all black people are gangsters and all Kentuckians are one-toothed hillbillies.
 
No. You're saying that it's cool to take perfectly good statistics and dump them down the drain because they don't agree with your view of this part of the country.

Find me the genius in Clay County and you get a cookie.
 
UncleBob, if you come forward and admit you posted that drivel while drunk, we're cool.

But if you're really taking this line of argument ("oh, now you're just using statistics to label people!"), then I'm done with the argument and writing you off as totally fucking hopeless.
 
[quote name='UncleBob']Yup - it's totally the cool thing now to lump people together and stereotype them. All Jews are greedy, all Muslims are terrorists, all black people are gangsters and all Kentuckians are one-toothed hillbillies.[/QUOTE]


That is not what anyone is doing. If one is going to move to a town for an extended period of time , get married, and have children, I don't think it would be racist or stereotyping to go online and check out a town stats. I would be a little unsure about raising a child in a place that has a high number of crime, a low population, and low education. I am not going to say "gee I don't want to stereotype better just move there anyway those stats don't mean anything."
 
[quote name='gareman']That is not what anyone is doing. If one is going to move to a town for an extended period of time , get married, and have children, I don't think it would be racist or stereotyping to go online and check out a town stats. I would be a little unsure about raising a child in a place that has a high number of crime, a low population, and low education. I am not going to say "gee I don't want to stereotype better just move there anyway those stats don't mean anything."[/QUOTE]

But would you be okay with just knowing these stats about a town, going there, pointing at people and saying "Yup, there's an Elementary School drop-out."

Because that's what's going on here. We're taking one person (or, potentially, one small group of people) and stating that they must be stupid because of these stats that have been posted.

Damn, I could have sworn just the other day, Myke was saying that using stats to prejudge people was wrong...
 
[quote name='UncleBob']But would you be okay with just knowing these stats about a town, going there, pointing at people and saying "Yup, there's an Elementary School drop-out."

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No. But I'd be fine looking at demographics and saying that a person from that county who'd murder a census worker and time the body to a tree with FED carved in their skin was probably toward the bottom the barrel among the people in that crappy county.

That's no exactly behavior that screams that the person is a educated, intelligent and cultured person.

That's a far cry from saying everyone in the county is a moron. It's more a comment on the behavior, reinforced by the cesspool of a rural shithole county the person lives in.
 
I'd thought it'd be worth pointing this out as poor Kentucky really got a beating in this thread.

Rather than being killed by anti-government "rednecks", it turned out to be suicide.
 
[quote name='dopa345']I'd thought it'd be worth pointing this out as poor Kentucky really got a beating in this thread.

Rather than being killed by anti-government "rednecks", it turned out to be suicide.[/QUOTE]

Stupid hillbillies can't even lynch well enough for it to be accepted as murder. What is wrong with this country?
 
Kurt Cobain shot himself with a shotgun. How is that the same as duct taping yourself and then somehow committing suicide. Was he duct taped?
 
The shot gun was in his mouth, but apparently it would have been impossible to have it in that position and be able to pull the trigger (conspiracy theory, lulz). If you're going to try starting new conspiracy theories you have to at least know the old ones.
 
[quote name='perdition(troy']The shot gun was in his mouth, but apparently it would have been impossible to have it in that position and be able to pull the trigger (conspiracy theory, lulz). If you're going to try starting new conspiracy theories you have to at least know the old ones.[/QUOTE]

Everybody knows Dave Grohl killed Curt Cobain.

Curt was cleaning is loaded shotgun, a bad habit of his, and Dave Grohl accidentally set it off while showing him how cool the next Nirvana album would be with trombones.
 
He could've pulled the trigger with his toe. Sounds retarded but completely possible. Still don't know what this has to do with this particular case. Maybe Chris Novoselic did it so people can remember he was in Nirvana?

I'm just asking how a man can be duct taped and then commit suicide. Did they find the roll right next to the tree?

It's not above reproach for some backwoods sheriff to be in the pocket of some moonshiners/weed growers. There's alot of money in that stuff and some of it might find it's way to the local Johnny Law.
 
depascal is obviously right, guys. It's a cover-up by some backwoods, alternate universe Andy Griffith sheriff.

No one point out to depascal that the investigation was done by State authorities with assistance from the Federal Government. Now, I'm not one to say that corruption in government isn't possible, but this seems to go pretty far up for one guy. I bet his evil insurance companies bribed off some federal officials to deem it as a suicide so they won't have to pay out.
 
[quote name='perdition(troy']well wait a minute...myke was wrong and I turned out to be right?

damn trolls.[/QUOTE]

It took 9 weeks and forensic scientists to determine this.

Gloat if you must, as you are, for a change, right - but I won't maintain for a moment that you're more of an expert on southern Ky - hell, any part of KY - compared to me.

FoC can have the Western part of the state, though.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']It took 9 weeks and forensic scientists to determine this.

Gloat if you must, as you are, for a change, right - but I won't maintain for a moment that you're more of an expert on southern Ky - hell, any part of KY - compared to me.

FoC can have the Western part of the state, though.[/QUOTE]

My extended observations of Kentucky are limited to Bowling Green and Elizabethtown. My current observation is Louisville. I have very limited observations of Bardstown and Paducah. The underlying concept uniting all of them is the irony that a brain injury improves your chance of a better job where the state motto is "Education Pays".
 
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