figured something out probably video actually is bad for understanding things that have happened more often than not
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biology textbooks are interesting because they're often lovingly illustrated with blown out drawings in lots of colors with labels but sometimes interspersed are photos of (eg) cells under microscopes the latter, despite being a "true" image, are often less useful for learning
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here for example is a stained slide of some epithelial tissue (or some other kind, who knows) in fact here are a bunch of kinds of tissue (a bunch of similar cells) stain and magnification aside--themselves an visual aides--this is what cells "look" like what have you learned?pic.twitter.com/SAMSDLAEmN
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Here is another depiction of a cell It is not at all what a cell "looks" like as you can see from above But I bet it is much more useful in finding out about cells: it has lots of labels, different bits that are invisible above are colored in contrast and blown up, and so onpic.twitter.com/obfIr6bp3g
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Both of these are useful of course, and complimentary. Without knowing much about cells, the carefully laid out diagram is much more helpful in learning a bit about what the hell a cell is. Of course, if you only saw the diagram you would be missing other crucial context.
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Videos of (eg) police shootings are great because historically police controlled narratives around police violence; people got to see a diagram of a cell drawn by cells. Very tidy, very helpful, and in this case deeply misleading Video makes such authorial abuses difficult
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at the same time, videos are really not complete evidence; they suppress information and elide context
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Blake was repeatedly shot in the back . . . maybe carrying a knife, after someone reported a violent rape (not depicted) Floyd died while a cop kneeled on him . . . with vast quantities of fentanyl in his system (not depicted)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This misses the point. The outrage is that Floyd died with a knee on his neck regardless of whether that's what killed him or not. It's not about the facts, it's about the impunity of the police and the indignity they impose on people.
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sadly in fact no one actually cares about that
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Replying to @mattparlmer
its not over police brutality thats just the schelling point
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