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You're still missing the point. A mother whose son went to get candy and ended up never coming home after being gunned down by the police doesn't give a fuck ab

by weego 6y ago

You're still missing the point. A mother whose son went to get candy and ended up never coming home after being gunned down by the police doesn't give a fuck about white tech elite hand-wringing and trying to rewrite history and does't give a fuck about hand-wringing over salaries. She wants it to have never happened, she wants justice, her community wants to be able to call the police in an emergency and be sure one of their own won't get murdered and they want equality in mind, not just on paper. What good is more money right now when walking in a 'good' neighbourhood you just bought into, or driving a nice car you just bought with your salary can still get you murdered by the police just for being black. White people have lost their damn minds. It's not about you and how awful you feel your ancestors behaved. They murder men, women and children alike with impunity.

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saabaa 6y ago
1. There are hundreds of millions of guns and people in America. 2. Police officers help black (and white) people millions of times per year. 3. Police officers murder black (and white) people at most dozens of times per year. 4. Black criminals murder thousands of black people per year. Any black person who is more afraid of being murdered by a police officer than a black criminal is being highly irrational. Any person that can't accept the reality that a small number of murders of black (and white) people by police are inevitable in such a big and well armed country is being highly irrational. A totally reasonable goal is to try to reduce the number of murders as much as possible, which is something that no one disagrees with. The idea that police are murdering in huge numbers, or that the problem is growing precipitously, is simply a result of people unable to overcome selection bias. They're watching a handful of videos and then exaggerating the problem in their minds.
f6v 6y ago
That is why economic policies aren't written by someone who's emotionally attached to the described event. There's probably no doubt that providing black people with education, universal healthcare and well-paid jobs will result in less violence and prejudice. A death is a tragedy to someone, but the society can't miss forest for the trees, as somebody already mentioned here. P.S. I'm not at all familiar with US mindset, but isn't making generalisations based on race("White people have lost their minds") racist as well?
- bavell 6y ago
  To answer your last question - IMO yes but in the US the colloquial use of the term "racism" typically refers only to white-on-____ racism, where you fill in the blank with the oppressed minority.

by weego 6y ago

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saabaa 6y ago

1. There are hundreds of millions of guns and people in America. 2. Police officers help black (and white) people millions of times per year. 3. Police officers murder black (and white) people at most dozens of times per year. 4. Black criminals murder thousands of black people per year. Any black person who is more afraid of being murdered by a police officer than a black criminal is being highly irrational. Any person that can't accept the reality that a small number of murders of black (and white) people by police are inevitable in such a big and well armed country is being highly irrational. A totally reasonable goal is to try to reduce the number of murders as much as possible, which is something that no one disagrees with. The idea that police are murdering in huge numbers, or that the problem is growing precipitously, is simply a result of people unable to overcome selection bias. They're watching a handful of videos and then exaggerating the problem in their minds.

f6v 6y ago

That is why economic policies aren't written by someone who's emotionally attached to the described event. There's probably no doubt that providing black people with education, universal healthcare and well-paid jobs will result in less violence and prejudice. A death is a tragedy to someone, but the society can't miss forest for the trees, as somebody already mentioned here. P.S. I'm not at all familiar with US mindset, but isn't making generalisations based on race("White people have lost their minds") racist as well?

bavell 6y ago
To answer your last question - IMO yes but in the US the colloquial use of the term "racism" typically refers only to white-on-____ racism, where you fill in the blank with the oppressed minority.