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While I understand the sentiment is a common one, I disagree with the premise that these things are due to race. This is due to economic inequality, with race
by wewrweoi389083 9y ago
While I understand the sentiment is a common one, I disagree with the premise that these things are due to race.
This is due to economic inequality, with race being used by the wealthy as a tool to pit the majority against each other, no different from how religion was used to label the pious and heathens. It's binary nonsense.
There are parts of the country where you WILL find poor white people being treated the same. I grew up in one; rich construction company owners kids get busted for growing pot, are let off the hook by the judge who throws the book at poor white kids living in the trailer park doing the same.
The trailer park kids were doing to support the family cause they couldn't find a job due prior felonies related to crimes undertaken to again feed the family.
And the judges speak to it with scary justifications like (paraphrasing a longwinded rant) "If God didn't want those kids in jail, he'd have given their family a construction company for them to manage some day."
White wives are beaten and abused daily. Cops do nothing. Wife maims husband, goes to prison.
The meme as I see it: The rich are given a pass, they are just following their manifest destiny. Poor people don't appear to have one, so fuck them.
- patrickg_zill 9y agoGiven what I have heard of from older relatives in rural areas, this is "in the main" correct. My aunt, quite old, remembers a time when corporal punishment (being hit with a sturdy broomstick, or rapped across the knuckles etc.) was OK in the school she attended. It was always the poorer kids that got the corporal punishment... not the better-off ones.
- blt 9y agoAnd yet, somehow, black people get killed by police a lot more than poor white people.
- Retra 9y agoIt may be due to race, it's just not a foregone conclusion.
- bluthru 9y agoAre you sure? This study shows that whites are actually killed at a higher rate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a-massive-new-study-on-police-shootings-of-whites-and-blacks-is-so-controversial/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a...
- tcskeptic 9y agoRead that study carefully. It may not say what you think it says. The rate for whites is higher but only when counting from a stop already being initiated. Stops are initiated on minorities at tremendously higher rates. Comparing the two outcomes is really tricky.
- bluthru 9y ago>The rate for whites is higher but only when counting from a stop already being initiated. Of course. You consider people who interact with police. Some old lady obviously shouldn't be included in the data. >Stops are initiated on minorities at tremendously higher rates. Blacks and latinos commit crimes at higher rates than whites and asians.