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The US's police force, like the country at large, is only 10% black, so unless you have some data to suggest some pretty extreme differences in white and black
by anoonmoose 4y ago
The US's police force, like the country at large, is only 10% black, so unless you have some data to suggest some pretty extreme differences in white and black police participation rates in supremacist groups, it seems fairly unreasonable to be equally concerned about two groups when we can estimate one being nearly ten times the size of the other.
- ipaddr 4y agoThe beatings / deaths happen in big cities where higher % of black cops are the norm. The cops who attack Floyd were black and this happened in a large city. Randomly I will pick Atlanta. 58% https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Police_Department#:~:text=Male%3A%2082%25,Caucasian%2F%20White%3A%2037%25 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Police_Department#:~...
- anoonmoose 4y agoYou know that we can all very easily check Google Images for "george floyd murder" and see the white guy with his knee on Floyd's neck, right? Multiple people have pointed out that your statements on the racial makeup of the people who killed George Floyd have been- and this is being generous- extremely misleading.
- ipaddr 4y agoDoes that mean you accept the stats you specifically asked for to prove the higher % of black police in metro vs country? I did mistake a mistake I meant to say Tyre Nichols: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/20/tyre-nichols-memphis-police-fired/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/20/... Have you had a chance to do a google search on that?
- anoonmoose 4y agoThat was not what I specifically asked for. And of course I haven't had time to do a google search on it, you just brought it up after me and multiple other people pointed out what you said made no sense. But I might later- can't say I have high hopes given the first run round, afraid to say.
- ipaddr 4y agoTyre Nichols story shouldn't be forgotten.
- ceejayoz 4y agoSure, but there's zero indication it involves "black supremacists" as you alleged at the start of the thread.
- ipaddr 4y agoA group of officers all one skin color picking on someone because of skin color are the acts of supremacists. He was singled out because of his skin color.
- ceejayoz 4y agoYou have a very unique definition of "supremacist" if targeting black people for beatings can be termed "black supremacy". If you're alleging they targeted Tyre Nichols based on his skin color, that's an anti-Black action. I'm entirely comfortable with the idea that minority groups can internalize bias against their own identities, but that doesn't seem to be your argument.
- ipaddr 4y agoIt was an anti-black action. Done by black supremacist who think they are superior to the people they should be serving.
- ceejayoz 4y agoThat would make them "police supremacists", perhaps, but not "black supremacists". "Black supremacists" believe the Black race is inherently superior to other races. This means it would be very, very odd for them to beat someone up for being Black.
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- orf 4y agoI’m interested in seeing you reply to the other commentators about the cops who attacked Floyd. How do you defend this position?
- anoonmoose 4y agothey said elsewhere they meant tyre nichols