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As in I agree that black lives matter, that the police are freaking terrifying, that racism is bad, etc. But the bad frame uses religious style concepts - the total depravity of "you're in a racist system", the lurking Satan of "if you don't totally buy in you're racist"

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Repenting for white sins, white fragility indicating submission/dominance heirarchy, a lot of this being oriented around social status and power and retribution instead of actually getting concrete results

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Have you seen the videos of white people kneeling to people of color? The thousands of hive minded statements on black square day? There are quite literally hundreds of videos of both mob and police violence I’ve seen. Her fear is very warranted. Going to local protests (1/2)

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...is very different from gauging the overall mood of the nation. The amount of peopleI’ve debated in the last week who dismissed graphic recordings of violence was a sight. I’ve been collecting video evidence for later use if you’re skeptical of my statements, plus related data.

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That her fear is warranted? I mean the entire issue of race and police brutality as it stands comes from a false premise, that more data is coming out disproving the commonly held notions we see today. If you’re inclined, read this: nber.org/papers/w22399.

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Or if you prefer an article, I have that too. But my point is the discussion starts on a false premise and leaves no room for questioning common assumptions without assuming malicious intent or wrong think. time.com/4404987/police

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Tbf police make me angry like few other things do. Often in the past years I have to not directly think about the police too much otherwise the rage gets to be overwhelming

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I mean but this is exactly what I mean. I'm expressing something around the frame and religious attitude and you're like "don't you feel bad tearing them down", like this is so black and white, either I'm in 100% agreement or I should "feel bad tearing them down"