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> It merely means that race is something that doesn't exist outside of the social conventions of a society, an identity pasted onto oneself or someone else base
by lbotos 8y ago
> It merely means that race is something that doesn't exist outside of the social conventions of a society, an identity pasted onto oneself or someone else based on superficial and meaningless biological attributes.
With this in mind, are police not agents working on behalf of a society? Funded largely (if not solely) by members of that society?
You don't have to look much further than "blue lives matter" to see that police in America are almost looked at as a psuedo-race.
> racism is just stupid (i.e. it obfuscates the real issues).
A lot of people think Racism in policing is the real issue. A core one. What do you think the real issues that are being obfuscated are?
- stareatgoats 8y agoAgree racism in policing is a real and core issue. Racism in other walks of life is a real problem too, for example in journalism or social studies: i.e. when any kind of (un)ethical behavior is directly linked to 'race', either expressly or insidiously implied which was my point. The obfuscation that takes place here is that the cause of police violence is reduced down to 2 factors (race and individuals), at the expense of such things as actual racism, individual drug abuse, a propensity in police stations to pick that same sturdy officer for difficult and potentially dangerous situations, general militarization of the police, a culture steeped in violence, and a cultural tendency to see crime (any problem really) as something you solve by bombing it out of existence. Etc.