05-29-2020, 03:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-29-2020, 04:11 PM by Eric the Green.)
(05-29-2020, 01:08 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: [quote='Eric the Green' pid='53467' dateline='1590774725']
The question is why does this kind of police crime still happen after all the incidents we've seen now on video and such. It really shows how pervasive racism is, especially on your side of the aisle, and among policemen.
It has nothing to do with racism. It has to do with the deference the criminal justice system gives to police. Garner's killer got off. Same happens with police who kill people who are not black. A few get convicted, but the conviction rate is much lower than for nonpolice.
Quote:But the fact that most of these killings are of black men does indicate racism, as well as deference to police.
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The racism is on your side of the aisle, for believing that black people are not smart enough to fend for themselves and have to be given affirmative action and welfare, with the implicit Democratic promise to their white suburban base that that will keep black people in their place, with these police forces to enforce that.
No, your side's free-market ideology is racist for believing that everyone should pull themselves up by their bootstraps in spite of the historic discrimination and enslavement many have faced right up to the present time. Your side is to blame for promoting this ideology that life has to be competitive and that everyone should be a greedy capitalist because that's survival of the fittest. And they promote this ideology that is a racist dog whistle and then claim not to be racist because they might not explicitly mention race. But from the southern strategy of Nixon, to the anti-welfare scapegoating of Reagan, to the blatant xenophobia of Trump, racism has been a part of Republican ideology for decades.
http://philosopherswheel.com/freemarket.html
When white suburban votes want blacks kept in their place, they vote Republican.
"Republicans have been feeding their base all kinds of crazy for years." -- Obama
https://time.com/4531108/president-obama...publicans/