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I've said it before and I'll say it again: since when did America give two s*ts about any of our experiences? If I missed the "people care about what happened t

I've said it before and I'll say it again: since when did America give two s*ts about any of our experiences? If I missed the "people care about what happened to me because of my skin color" train, please let me know where that station was. It's a huge mistake to equate violent crime with being disadvantaged. For whatever its worth, I attended, and cried at, Kelsey Hightower's life story. The goodness of someone making it out of a really hard situation is cool and inspiring, but the badness of crime being legitimized on the basis of someone's life experience is deeply upsetting and dangerous. There is also this tiny little detail about that idea being antithetical to liberalism itself, but we don't need to get into that.

peter422 4y ago
Well for what it’s worth, this was simple shoplifting and the situation was escalated by the store owner. I’m not suggesting shoplifting is also not a crime, but it isn’t violent. And when somebody is chasing and grappling you it is a natural reaction to fight back. So basically it seems like here the violence was perpetrated by the white guy, if we are taking the facts at face value.
- restingrobot 4y ago
  >the situation was escalated by the store owner. The younger Allyn Gibson tried to take a picture of the shoplifter as evidence and he was violently attacked. I don't know where you got the idea that he was the aggressor, but that simply is not the case.
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