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The problem is people who disagree with you can also make a long list of scary events they've seen that lead to the opposite conclusions. For instance the riot
by thu2111 6y ago
The problem is people who disagree with you can also make a long list of scary events they've seen that lead to the opposite conclusions.
For instance the riots have now killed more people than unarmed blacks killed by the US police last year. They've been attacking statues of Abraham Lincoln, who fought a war to end slavery. That doesn't look like the work of anti-racists.
So whose lists of talking points wins?
BTW "if Trump wins we're a fascist dictatorship" was a talking point tried in the last election too. He won and so far he's been rather the model of federalism, surprisingly so given the hype. For a supposed fascist he's remarkably content to delegate power to regional governors.
- znpy 6y ago> For instance the riots have now killed more people than unarmed blacks killed by the US police last year. Do you have data to back that claim up ?
- thu2111 6y agoYes. Washington Post has a database of police killings. Go to it and select by race, and lack of a weapon. You get 14 killings. Now go to the Wikipedia article for "George Floyd protests", it has a section titled Deaths with list of killings related to the riots. It says: "As of June 8, 2020, at least 22 people have died during the protests, with 19 due to gunshot wounds"