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Cops are not racist, they just have poor training. They are simply trained to shoot once they feel threatened; rather than making quick on the spot judgement on
by sickbeard 10y ago
Cops are not racist, they just have poor training. They are simply trained to shoot once they feel threatened; rather than making quick on the spot judgement on whether to shoot. The poor training removes any thought and makes it automatic. Black man + gun = shoot.
There are many videos of this, including one where a cop at a gas station asked a black man to show his license and then proceeded to shoot him because he thought he had a gun.
On the other hand shooting police officers only reinforces this kind of training. It's an explosive situation of mistrust, emotion and idiocy.
Anger is such a useless emotion.
- chrisrhoden 10y agoAre you kidding me? "Black man + gun = shoot" is the very definition of racist when there are numerous cases of "white man + gun = deescalate", and especially when "black man = probably black man with gun = shoot"
- sickbeard 10y agoLook up the definition of racism sometime.
- chrisrhoden 10y agoI'm not sure how an ingrained belief that black men are more threatening or more violent or whatever than white men by default doesn't fit every definition perfectly.
- sangnoir 10y ago> Cops are not racist...Black man + gun = shoot Your statements are contradictory.
- pc86 10y agoHis point is that the training instills that formula.
- sickbeard 10y agoThat's not what racism means. I'm saying they are trained to be that way, not because they hate or think they are superior to black people.
- sangnoir 10y agoIf coming to conclusion that a man is dangerous merely on the basis of their race isn't racism, then what exactly then do you think racism is? Do you presume racism is something that cannot be learned?