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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Are you suggesting the attention now being paid to police shootings is not because of the factual evidence of systemic racial bias, but merely sensationalism?
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I'm saying that it's disheartening that it takes a racial angle to get the enormous problem of police shooting and killing people into the public consciousness. Even if police shootings in the U.S. didn't disproportionately effect blacks, I think it should still be a major issue and story. Apparently, a lot of people think otherwise.
If the Catholic Church pedophile scourge dis-proportionally victimized latino children, would that turn it from a pedophile issue into a racial issue? For some people, I suppose it would. But for me, it would still be an issue about rampant pedophilia and an institutionalised coverup, not racism.