This is an absurdly bad-faith readinghttps://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1384976520045907968 …
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This is 100% the result of the automatic authority people give a badge If one of the random adults standing around had pulled out a pistol and shot the girl to save the other one's life there's no way they'd be getting this kind of support
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Look, if the officer had refrained from drawing his sidearm and done literally anything else -- *even if* this resulted in the other girl being injured, the odds are very high this ends with no fatalities And that should always be the goal, especially with minors
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All the people going "Cops can't win!" -- what if the cop had tackled the girl and the other girl got a nasty cut across her forearm that needed stitches Do you actually imagine people would still be protesting the cop and his ass would be in the hot seat right now? Seriously?
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Would there be protesters saying "WHY DIDN'T YOU SHOOT?" about a call for a fight between two sixteen-year-olds? Do you really see this as some kind of dilemma
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I think one other psychological thing this reveals is how people extremely quickly try to classify "good guys" and "bad guys" You decide who the "aggressor" is and who the "victim" is -- and any harm done to the aggressor is justified to prevent any harm to the victim
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Replying to @arthur_affect
There is a profound idea in American culture that any and all force is allowed to stop any lawbreaking or criminal activity, regardless of how minor or trivial.
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Replying to @JGavinSanders @arthur_affect
The idea that someone, somewhere may be violating the rules and getting away with it seems to offend the American id.
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The American superego, but yeah (I get what you mean but the idea that ugly, primal and irrational impulses are always "from the id" is a popular misuse of Freudian psych terms I mean, *all* impulses are ugly and irrational, that's kind of the point)
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