do you think things have gotten objectively worse? genuinely curious what you would use to establish this
I mean it's not a question of "good" or "bad" but rather "better" or "worse" when we're looking at differences over time you know?
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90s had Simpson trial, King riots--really unpleasant stuff and somehow we came out of it at a better baseline than we're at right now
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Yeah, I find it hard to believe anyone looking at it objectively can conclude that interracial violence and police misconduct is worse now than during the height of the years that produced the Rampart scandal.
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i mean the direct causal links here are: 1. the election of a black president 2. the result of crime being less omnipresent was that the policies reacting to it started to get reexamined, and 3. the Left kinda just winning on same-sex marriage
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2 is a thing i think a lot about theres room to say 'there was a significant overcorrection' now in ways there werent a decade and a half ago
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