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US prison system, law enforcement system. BLM movement. We do systematically repress them to lower classes, and also kill them directly (through a violent law e
by chrischen 6y ago
US prison system, law enforcement system. BLM movement. We do systematically repress them to lower classes, and also kill them directly (through a violent law enforcement system), and indirectly (deaths of despair, deaths from crime as a result of systematic poverty).
- vorpalhex 6y ago> US prison system https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6766 https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=6766 > law enforcement system. BLM movement (I assume you mean what BLM is protesting and not that BLM is killing people) https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic... > We do systematically repress them to lower classes If you are systematically repressing people, please stop. I'm not, so I'm not sure where this "we" is coming from. > and also kill them directly (through a violent law enforcement system) You are more likely to die by car accident, heart attack, suicide or coronavirus than cop. That doesn't mean we shouldn't improve the system. > and indirectly (deaths of despair, deaths from crime as a result of systematic poverty). I encourage you to fight poverty and the best way to do it is through donating to meaningful charities. That doesn't seem unique to the US though.