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Re: Guess Which Race Has the Highest Rate of Sex Trafficking

(Question Diversity)

So who are the traffickers? Is the stereotype of the black pimp based in reality?
This Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report gives the breakdown:
Percent of all trafficker suspects by race
Blacks 43.7
Hispanics 29.2
Asians 13.2
Whites 12.8
Other 1.2
I’ll assume many of the “others” are American Indians. Of course, we need to adjust for group size. Since whites have the lowest rate, we’ll make them the comparison group. The list below shows how many times a member of a given group is more likely to be a pimp than a white person:
Blacks 16.8
Hispanics 8.1
Asians 16.5
Others 6.0
Compared to whites, blacks are 16.8 times more likely to be pimps. That’s a huge difference, but the difference is actually larger for Asians. (I treated “Other” as Native Americans, but that is probably an inflated number since the category will include non-Natives).
Asians usually have the lowest crime rates (by far) but not here.

Quite a few years ago, in a land far far away (from where I am now), I inadvertently and nonchalantly started up a "how's the weather" conversation with a Bureau of Federal Prisons agent-guard, who was part of the team who had transported a Federal inmate doing time in the Greenville, Illinois Federal prison to the clinic in St. Louis where I happened to be that day for my own doctor's appointment, as the inmate also had a doctor's appointment there. Black, of course. In for sex trafficking Mann Act sort of stuff, as he said.

He told me, in not so many words, and more dog whistling than anything, that the really big problem with these sex trafficking and prostitution rings are from black gangs from big black cities going to the Upper Midwest luring Scandinavian ethnic type white teenage girls with dope, and then hooking them in and taking them back to their big black ghetto cities and forcing them to be come prostitutes.

(Peter Hunt)

akistan is a nation that's located in South Asia. Pakistani, Indian, Chinese, and ALL other Asian groups contribute to the ruining of Canada and other Western countries.

I actually thought it would be Hispanics.

I had Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, and Thais in mind with Han Chinese as leaders of the pack.

Ask any honest and completely aware thinker who lives in China or Taiwan or Japan or South Korea about all categories if crime. Murders might be the only one in which Whites lead any one of the aforelisted East Asian nations. Substance abuse is rife! Meth, alcohol, Nicotine, and pharmaceuticals (easy-peasy to score in the Republic of Korea, China and Taiwan) are abused by way more folks than in the States, and those 3 countries respective guys don't admit anywhere near the true extent of how much if their respective oops are addicts.

(JTK)

Sex trafficking, almost exclusively, appears in dangerous neighborhoods, which are populated by Blacks or immigrants from different cultures.
Observations and personal experience quickly can confirm statistics like this. In the 1980s, I lived in Brooklyn for a few years, where I was robbed five times, twice with a gun pointed at me. Somebody vandalized my car every few months. At nights one could see a lot of girls on the streets offering sex for money. Now I live far away from NYC. Nothing happened to me or my property ever since. I can walk my dog safely, even on Saturday nighs. My car is usually unlocked unless I am away for multiple days.

Sounds like you resided in Rodney Dangerfield's neighborhood. He said that when he first moved there he stepped outside and asked a cop "How long does it take to get to the subway from here." The cop replied "I don't know. No one has ever made it."

After I graduated, I moved out of there as soon as I could. They offered me a much higher salary in NYC. I didn't take it. In retrospective, I believe, this was the best decision I ever made.

(Big Al)

We can tsk-tsk all we want, but there's been a study done on US pimps. And you know how much some of them make a WEEK? $30,000! Take that, Walmart middle manager! That's how huge the market is. And not only that, pimping is one of the safest career crime choices, as they're much less likely to be caught and arrested than drug dealers, and much more likely to reach arrangements with crooked cops so long as they keep it discrete and informal.

I once took a training course in Canada. The speaker, Timea Nagy, told a heartbreaking story of being trafficked in Canada by way of Hungary. She never said so, but I believe her traffickers were Hungarian Gypsies. Later in one of the trainings, we were told to look out for older black men with younger white girls. That was generally the trafficking pattern. One of the organizations the police were going after was called "North Preston's Finest". They even have their own wikipedia page. The Canadians can thank the underground railroad for those wonderful additions to diversity.
Because the drinking age in Canada is 18, a lot of young women go clubbing across in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Lots of these young adult females were getting slipped roofies. We were told off the record that the police couldn't say so, but it was almost all East Asians (Pakistanis) doping the victims.

Once upon a time, we used to put some blame on prostitutes along with their pimps. Now we find every excuse in the book for a woman who chooses this career path. We don't call it prostitution anymore; we call it "trafficking". That's because we refuse to look at it straight and recognize for what it is: a lot of women are whores, and most of those get in there WILLINGLY. Whether from country to country, or within the one country. The whole roofie thing is the exception rather than the rule. It's plain old prostitution. Just read the details of those stories about those minor English girls. There were no roofies. They were in for the gifts, for the excitement, for the male attention, and the easy cash.

Part of the reason that prostitutes stay in the game is the feeling of shame and humiliation for having been duped. They get threatened with having their lives exposed to family and loved ones. Of course, there's often beatings, too. They often feel like it's their fault. In turn, the pimps often prey on the vulnerable, ie the young, the homeless, the mentally challenged etc...

Really, there's no way they could go to the police just so that their parents don't hear about it? Sounds like a stretch to me. This isn't the Congo jungle. If someone is really forcing you to do something, call 911. And they'll come and take him away. It's not that hard.

By the way, that's also the bull feminists bring up to explain women who stay with supposedly abusive husbands and so on. They could never bring themselves to admit that there's a part of willingness from the woman in question, so they make up a lot of implausible scenarios about how they can't leave.

So what's your solution, that we just let sex trafficking take place and look the other way?

First of all, it's prostitution. And second, of course not! I'm for jailing the whole of them, PROSTITUTES INCLUDED. Let them rot in jail. I'm also for a ban of the entire sex trades (prostitution too, don't fool yourselves) in whatever form they take: porn, stripping, cam shows, the whole of them. I don't even like cheerleaders. But punish the whores too! I'm sick of this "compassionate" culture where no one ever takes responsibility for anything. For the vast majority of the time, they get in there willingly. Everybody who's ever gotten close to those trades knows it.

Fooling aside, if you want to campaign for such restrictive laws on people's lives, please stick to your city or state governments.

Don't worry, I'm a federalist. And these should be state and local matters. And even if I wanted to, last year, the people of some Nevada counties had a referendum on whether to keep their brothels open, and something like 80 percent voted "Yes." So I have no hope for these people. I just don't want to live around them. So I'm well aware it's hard to enforce on 330 million anyway. But yes, I'd welcome such restrictions in the city or state I live in, and the SCOTUS better mind its damn business with its farce of putting pornography under the First Amendment.

Watch the people in your state flee to greener pastures en masse once you start enforcing your puritanical morals and suck the juice out of life as a result.

Many would flee, but many of the likeminded would flock in their stead. That's the whole point.

[...]Kotaku spoke to four external developers who worked with Nicalis and seven former Nicalis employees, most of whom requested anonymity because they were afraid the company would retaliate against them. (Some of those employees left the company out of frustration; others were let go.) Some shared anecdotes about the company ignoring them for months on end. All described Nicalis’s founder and president Tyrone Rodriguez as a friendly but often difficult boss, prone to behavior that some called controlling and exploitative. Multiple former Nicalis employees said Rodriguez pressured them to drink heavily, made racist jokes in the workplace, and would oscillate between berating them and ignoring them. A few shared Skype logs of Rodriguez using racial and ableist slurs, racist jokes, and antisemitic comments during work conversations. [...]

In interviews with Kotaku, seven former Nicalis employees painted a picture of Rodriguez as a boss who wielded his power over staff in exploitative ways. “The level of control he has over his employees is definitely a problem,” said one former staffer. “It was, ‘Anything I tell you to do, you have to do this, because I’m the boss.’” Sometimes that meant employees wasting days or weeks of work because Rodriguez wouldn’t respond to their questions; other times it meant more personal grievances. For example, two former Nicalis employees said they’d be rebuked for taking dinner breaks during crunch hours or taking time off to go to the doctor or take care of sick relatives.

[...]

On business trips to Japan and at other events like E3 and PAX, former Nicalis employees say that Rodriguez would push them into uncomfortable situations, giving them specific orders about how to act and behave. Two former employees told stories of Rodriguez ordering staff not to cross their legs or put their elbows on the table at dinner. One said that Rodriguez would monitor employees’ Twitter accounts and tell them not to interact with certain people. Six former employees who spoke to Kotaku said that he’d pressure them into drinking heavily, ordering shots of gin or vodka and belittling anyone who refused to participate. “He’d order the highest alcohol content shots, push us to drink them, and we’d be hesitant,” said one. “He’d be like, ‘Come on, don’t be a little bitch.’” (This is a phrase we’ve also seen Rodriguez use in Skype logs and on Twitter.) Several said they’d notice that Rodriguez would hand out shots and drinks but not have much himself, and two former Nicalis employees said they’d seen him get developers drunk before talking about business deals with them.
During one dinner in Japan, according to two people who were there, Rodriguez said he would pay for an employee’s airplane tickets to another country if they drank a disgusting concoction that he’d created at the table, made up of raw eggs, beer, soy sauce, and other assorted food items that Rodriguez had found. Given that Rodriguez owned the company and was responsible for all of their paychecks, Nicalis employees said they felt pressured and uncomfortable during occasions like this. “It’s not very professional… In any other company that’d be a big HR thing,” said one former employee. “But there is no HR at Nicalis, so that went unaccounted for. We were expected to self-report, but you can’t really do that when he’s the one violating HR stuff. Who are we supposed to report to?”

One Skype log shared with Kotaku by a former Nicalis employee shows Rodriguez calling external partners “retards” and his employees “you gays.” In another Skype exchange shown to Kotaku, an employee talks about watching Star Trek and Rodriguez says, of Jean Luc-Picard, “I like that nigger.” Two other former Nicalis employees said that Rodriguez would, as a goof, encourage one employee to use the n-word in Skype group chats. Said a third, when I asked: “I haven’t experienced anything like Tyrone demanding people use racial slurs, but he likes to say ‘white is right’ often in a ‘jokey’ way.”
Kotaku obtained a number of Skype logs from the Nicalis group chat in which Rodriguez communicates with employees. The logs are filled with racist, antisemitic, and homophobic language from the Nicalis founder. Here are some excerpts:

{Transcripts}

03:35 Tyrone Rodriguez
we‘le xchange at the airport
03:35 Tyrone Rodriguez
matt was getting jewed by his bank today
03:35 Tyrone Rodriguez
the exchange is 103 to the CAD dollar

22:33 Tyrone Rodriguez
it‘s their marketing group
22:33 Tyrone Rodriguez
they had a recent shift in people
22:33 Tyrone Rodriguez
so the new people are kind of retards

06:29 Tyrone Rodriguez
did you know we made an official date on the behest of a retailer?
06:30 Tyrone Rodriguez
this jew is responsible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Lazarus,_Jr.
06:50 Tyrone Rodriguez
because he probably got paid off by the jew
06:50 Tyrone Rodriguez
corrupt asshole

22:30 [Name redacted]
have we heard anything from Sony and / or Nintendo regarding PAX?
22:31 Tyrone Rodriguez
as far as?
22:32 [Name redacted]
if our build is a „yes“ or a „no“
22:32 Tyrone Rodriguez
sony yes
22:32 Tyrone Rodriguez
Nintendo seems no
22:32 [Name redacted]
and if we should send a new one
22:32 Tyrone Rodriguez
which is what I expected
22:32 [Name redacted]
why doesn‘t Nintendo want it?
22:32 Tyrone Rodriguez
because they‘re gay

21:41 Tyrone Rodriguez
that‘s a lot!
21:41 Tyrone Rodriguez
it‘s usually under 4
21:42 Tyrone Rodriguez
but Obama‘s fucking everything up
21:42 Tyrone Rodriguez
lazy porch monkey

06:31 Tyrone Rodriguez
aah, so you have to go 2x add black bars
06:32 Tyrone Rodriguez
that‘s ironic
06:32 Tyrone Rodriguez
usually the blacks are behind the bars
06:33 Tyrone Rodriguez
that may have been one of my best

Kotaku has reviewed dozens of Skype transcripts full of jokes and messages like this.

One former Nicalis employee, who was overweight and suffered from health issues, said that Rodriguez would make comments on his weight and often told him to go for walks. (This employee requested anonymity but was willing to publicize these specific details, even knowing they might make him identifiable to Nicalis, because he felt it was important.) During a business trip to Japan, the former Nicalis employee said that he’d been walking around so much that his inner thighs began bleeding, and he wanted to rest in his hotel. When Tyrone Rodriguez and his brother, Nicalis CEO Victor Rodriguez, asked him to go on a trip to a nearby landmark, the former employee said he refused. “Tyrone started saying things like, ‘Who do you think paid for your trip?’” he said. “He was essentially trying to coerce me into going… I said, ‘No, I’m not going.’” Soon afterwards, he said, Rodriguez fired him. “When we got back from Japan I feel like that might have been why they got rid of me. Because I stood up for myself.”

Other former Nicalis employees have told similar stories about being rebuked or punished for refusing to go on trips with Tyrone Rodriguez. Three former employees said that Nicalis removed them or people they worked with from the credits of their games once they left the company. “Tyrone can be very generous and a really good guy,” said one. “If he needs something from you. But I’ve seen him turn pretty quickly when you’re not needed anymore.”

{Submitter‘s note: Here is Tyrone Rodriguez‘ reaction on Twitter:}

https://mobile.twitter.com/tyronerodriguez/status/1172280592102129666

{Transcript:}

I wrote some terribly insensitive, stupid remarks in DMs that don‘t represent who I am. Just because they were done in a private situation while trying to be „funny“ and edgy doesn‘t make them any less terrible. They‘re indefensible and unacceptable.

As someone who has experienced racism and discrimination in my life, I should know better and must be a better person. I can‘t throw around words for shock value or because I think they‘ll get a laugh.

I want to also clarify that my insensitivity and vulgarity shouldn‘t reflect on the people I work with. They‘re very good people and shouldn‘t be held responsible for my own actions.

If I‘ve hurt you- and I wasn‘t aware until today that I might have- I hope you can forgive me someday.