1/ When I was a Christian, we believed that we were persecuted. Any time there was a high profile killing of a Christian, we heard about it. Any bad thing that happened to Christians was fed through a narrative that the world was out to get us because they hated us.
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This is the best thing I’ve read on twitter about this whole situation
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So hearing about instances is generally a really bad way to go about data, because it's filtered through a lot of selection processes. If you find me a complete data list that compiles all police shootings I'm pretty sure we can find you the white person you're looking for.
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My take is extremely similar to yours. Adolph Reed & Zaid Jilani and some others I can't remember have written on this (neither of those or the ones I'm trying to remember are white, since that would disqualify the writers in some people's eyes, wrongly imo).
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A google|duck for raw stat data always illuminating: True of most.
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i would absolutely love to have conversations about this, but anytime i try to make any of the points you've made in this thread (when i talk to white people!), i don't get calm reflection or a reasoned counter: i get anger and disbelief.
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i think you’re avoiding the very intense and difficult emotions this triggers by trying to bring it to an intellectual level and talk about „data“. the pain, anguish and shame that are the result of slavery and exploitation are real. unless we deal with that, there’ll be no prog
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1/ when I see what’s happening right now, I feel a deep shame. Shame that it’s possible for humans to treat each other with utter callousness. and if I look inside myself, I have to admit that this possibility is there. and it frightens me.
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I would argue with you on this. its not really racism. is a circular logic... cops are in an area gangs kill cops cops hire more harder cops... kill gangs, gangs retaliate. cops hire more harder still cops... cops kill gangs, gangs retaliate. I am sure most of these incidents
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So the real question is how to deal with bad apple officers. What did the British do?... Start with PACE 1984 and the complete change in the their polices' attitude to race.
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