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Good ol American rule by law

• Spivak 5y ago
  It's single-handedly the best perk of being white in the US. I hate it, it's straight up dystopian, but you can't argue with the benefits of being above the law for anything less than like murder. Being white means I do things like speed, do drugs at parties and concerts, jaywalk, be drunk in public, trespass -- err sorry urban explore, set of fireworks on the 4th without so much as a second glance.
  • nsxwolf 5y ago
    Go on a ridealong. You'll be arresting white people all day.
    • SauciestGNU 5y ago
      Yeah it's certainly more nuanced than just race. There has to be the right intersection of race, class, and social network to be above the law in the United States. But I'd essentially guarantee those white people being arrested all day are poor white people and generally not middle- or upper-class white people.
      • StanislavPetrov 5y ago
        Exactly this. Obama's kid isn't being arrested when she drives through Martha's Vinyard in her Mercedes. Your chance of being arrested and spending time in prison is far more closely correlated with your income (or lack thereof) than your skin tone.
    • birdyrooster 5y ago
  • dijonman2 5y ago
    This is an incredibly ignorant statement. Why does everything need to be about race all day?
    • kelnos 5y ago
      I think it would be pretty weird if comments about race didn't come up in a post about policing. Scanning through things, clearly it's not "everything" either. Maybe dial down your knee-jerk sensitivity a notch?