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Sociopathy is a mostly learned behaviour complex. If you are raised in a desperate or violent enviroment and/or without a strong positive parental involvement, you are much more likely to develope sociopathic tendencies. This is known.
Demographically black folk are more likely to belong to an honor culture with no institutions in America. Because the institutions of the dignity culture that subculture exists within historically did not serve them and actively subverted the creation of their own institutions. Honor cultures can exist with relative "lawfullness" if there are cultural or governmental institutions. For example the South operated on an honor culture pre-civil war, not a dignity culture. But they had total institutional control, including the institutions of the black slave's family and the black slave's church.
"Family" counts as an institution and so does church. So black churches and family should be supported by the prevailing dignity culture as a partial solution to the issue at hand. Institutional capture should play a role as well. The obvious goal should be to bring those black folk trappped in an institutionaless honor culture into the fold of a dignity culture supported by strong institutions.
Another observation. Black folk in America have very strong in-group bias compared to white folk in America at the popultion level. Though certain white demographics might buck this trend. So yes, it's racism agianst white folk. Not surprising at all. This is one of the reasons CRT is damaging to progress on racial relations. We must acknowledge black on white racism as racism begets racism.
There are other observations (such as Eastside urban pollution, war on drugs/over policing, racism etc effect on black family structures) that can help account for the increase in sociopathic behaviour in certain black communities. But I feel like I am beating a dead horse.
But to understand why white folk might be disproportionately targeted by black folk's criminality in-group bias should be the starting point. I would add to that white folk make better targets (more money, not part of the community). In regards to rape black men in America grow up inundated by images of beautiful white women. We all know there is some issues in some black communities between the sexes over this. Black women in America grow up feeling bad about themselves because beauty and whiteness are seem synonymous in a majority white culture. (I am a white man married to a black women for a quater of century so I can attest that 1st: this really fucks up black women's self esteem and 2nd: black women are the most beautiful creatures to ever grace this earth ;)
So to end my meanderings I am not even sure I am responding to valid statistics. Perhaps there is no there there in OP's article. I can't be bothered to read it. My entire point is that if there is some there there there is more than enough known, supported thereness in the "left-wing" position to dismiss any HBD arguement or whatever the point of posting this link was. I would find it trivial if it is true that black rapist disproportionately target white women. Lord knows if I was a rapist I too would avoid black women. They'd kick my ass.
If we're taking this terse top-level post seriously at all, this is an element I think could be explored.
A significant amount of the differences in interracial crime is as you say - due to in-group bias (and, in parallel, out-group bias/racism).
How much of it is the perception that whites are ineffectual and weak? My personal belief is that white folks are softer targets on average. If anything, the past few years of the culture war have made this more pronounced, though the folks who train with firearms and carry at one end of the bell curve exist too.
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