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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
But it seems to me that people on this side of the political spectrum have become somewhat... dictatorial, is maybe a bad word for it? The idea that there are certain subjects that cannot be talked about, certain jokes that cannot be told, certain ideas that cannot be held, actual facts that can't be discussed because they involve some implication that we don't like, usually having to do with inequality.
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Since when are you not allowed to talk about certain topic or make certain jokes?
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We seem to have come up with this narrative about injustice in the world that needs to be corrected and facts are less important than that narrative, because "God dammit, the injustice needs to be corrected and that's more important than what's real! Every time a white cop shoots a black guy it's racism and there is no room for nuance!"
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I don't know if it's so much that as it is a reaction to the immediate denial that racism exists in today's world or could have been a factor in the shooting. It may not be that a cop who shoots an unarmed black person is consciously racist, but we do know that there is a lot of institutionalized racism in most police forces, that there is systemic racism against black people that is more likely to cause them become involved in an altercation with police, and sometimes there are just flat-out racist cops. You're right that sometimes it's not very nuanced, and sometimes people get it wrong, but it's somewhat understandable when that #### is so prevalent and black people have to deal with it every day of their lives.
/derail