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This is nonsense. You are comparing government officials (police officers) with murderers. Police should be held to a higher standard than murderers, period. E
by InclinedPlane 9y ago
This is nonsense. You are comparing government officials (police officers) with murderers. Police should be held to a higher standard than murderers, period.
Edit: ah, oh yes, I shouldn't have been shocked to find out you're a huge racist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15078663
- steveeq1 9y agoObviously. But that's not my argument. The argument is that availability bias and media sensationalism makes the problem of "unarmed black man gets shot and killed by white police officer" seem a far bigger problem than it actually is.
- InclinedPlane 9y agoThat sounds like your argument, that somehow other causes of violent death are higher than systematized killings by law enforcement? By what metric are police shootings in America not a huge problem? They are one of the most common forms of homicide by a stranger (representing between 1 in 4 and 1 in 3 of all such killings). Nothing about this should be accepted as normal or unconcerning.
- steveeq1 9y ago> By what metric are police shootings in America > not a huge problem? Black people shootings, relatively speaking.
- steveeq1 9y agoRead the context of the message please.