Posted: 09 June 2020 at 3:22am | IP Logged | 5
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Andy Mokler wrote:
Black on black crime. Fatherless homes. Crime. Drugs. All of these things are much bigger problems than a supposed systemic problem with the police specifically targeting blacks. The issues with the police simply are not targeted toward blacks. The police have issues that they need to continually strive to better. But the numbers just don't show a predisposition to single out blacks. White men, statistically, are far more likely to be shot by a cop than black men. |
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There is so much bile and abject awfulness in this quote as to make me physically ill. This is an outright denial and obfuscation of any responsibility. It's putting it all on the "other" and blaming them for their own plights (a tried and true method) . It's a manipulation of certain formula and a pointing to specific outliers as being the actual fact while discounting hundreds (thousands) of others in service of confirmation bias. It's looking for facts in number that you can taint.
At the end? Andy's conclusion is that White people are far more disposed to death by racial means than African Americans.
Seriously.
Any person with two eyes and a beating heart can tell you that's not true...except the Andy's of the world. No. He'll tell you that he is, in fact, the oppressed race. His Whiteness actually makes him more susceptible to diabetes, high blood pressure, death by cop and a whole host of comorbities that have been typically associated with African Americans for decades...but he'll want to claim them as his own nonetheless.
He is shameless in his abject use of tropes that are at least 40 years old, (but more than likely older) and is unapologetic in proclaiming his hurt as a white dude. He'll also more than readily say that "all lives are equal" and, specifically, that his lived experience is as important as anyone's, hands down. Then he'll point to his research, a quick 10 second Google search to affirm what he already believes.
All of this, ALL OF THIS, to make him feel better that there is no systemic racism in the police force at all. It's just a "few bad apples" which, BTW, they said 53 years ago and then said 23 years ago and now are saying...now.
But, ya know, business as usual...right, Andy?
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