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Biden calls for justice after footage released of police killing Black woman
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2024
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I can't wait for Americans to stop talking about race like it matters...
As soon as it stops mattering, they will.
Imho.. you normalise thinking that race matters when race is brought into as many things as possible
You legitimise their rhetoric to an extent
Conservatives hate being called racist. What exactly is this legitimizing?
I feel like I'm asking the same question twice: what lessons do they learn?
That it's ok to make issues about a person's race . Even if race has nothing to do with it.
So the problem with calling too many things racist is that... people think about racism.
Think about it how? What are the consequences of people thinking more things are racially motivated than there are?
Okay, so, the world you imagine is that bigoted racists will point to this cop-murder and say "Hey, they said this killing was racist, but it wasn't. That means we need to be more racist?"
No, it doesn't. Nobody believes this.
Cops don't sprinkle cocaine over white women.
Now, because I know I'll have to explain this to you, that was something called a "figure of speech."
Then you would be interested in why people think this is racist because false negatives are just as damaging as false positives.
Do you think a hurricane warning is improved by people loudly calling for others not to listen?
"Ah, but hurricane issuers do care about accuracy."
And what exactly makes you think that we don't?
I'm not gonna help you with this one. You're going to have to sit in the dunce corner and really think about it.
Did you not watch the full tape?
Did you watch the dvd extra features? That's where the cocaine part happened.
At least you are showing everyone you are just trolling. .
Ah yes, the ultimate defeater: "You don't mean anything you've said." You've been saying that a lot in this comment section.
Im pretty sure this dude is the cop. There's no other reason for someone to spend two entire days non-stop defending murder caught on film.
Honestly, that would make sense. xD