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Originally Posted by pylon
Secondly, this man was a convicted felon with a rap sheet longer than this thread, including burglary, assault and drug dealing. He was a piece of human scum. Did he deserve to die? No. Did the Police have good cause to keep tabs on him, absolutely. I would not want that man as my neighbour, and nor would you. Regardless of the colour of his skin.
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Honestly, I don't think that has anything to do with it. Sure, he was a bad guy, and I wouldn't want him to live next door, but the cops can't treat anyone that way (the way I believe the evidence that we have points).
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Originally Posted by pylon
Lastly, I am getting very tired of this argument being about black people being singled out and persecuted simply because of skin colour. Are more black people per capita killed by cops. Yes. Is it because they are black? No. It is because they are unfortunate victims of a socio-economic situation that has put them in an extreme cycle of poverty and crime. You cannot blame a young black man for resorting to a life of crime when he has next to no options otherwise. He is being stereotyped by employers, he is at an extreme economic disadvantage as his parents survived the same tragic set of circumstances, and the cycle repeats itself. But regardless of those circumstances, crime cannot go unpunished. Whether it is the disadvantaged African American from the projects, or the hillbilly piece of white trash cooking meth.
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Agreed with the bold part, but the rest of it really sounds like a chicken/egg question. It's definitely due to socio-economic circumstances, but isn't he in those circumstances because of the color of his skin?
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Originally Posted by pylon
Lastly, IMO, you're a solid, funny and well educated poster. However your passive aggressive insults get tiring sometimes. You have a very smug way about arguing a point sometimes, and a very talented way of blatantly mislabelling what people said to forward your point. In no way was I painting 'every protester' as a criminal. And if that is what you took away from that statement, I might actually begin to question the educated part of my opinion of you.
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Well-educated and solid is seriously questionable, but smug - you got me there. It's an emotional topic and I do tend to get snarky, but I wasn't trying to misrepresent anything. I won't bore everyone with the details of why, but that was how I read it.