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Originally Posted by Yoho
If George Floyd was white would it have even made the local news?
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I think the obvious retort is "probably not, because he'd probably be alive", but there's really no way to know. Frankly, there are plenty of other incidents wherein some other black dude was treated horribly by a copy and it doesn't make the local news either, this one just happened to because... well, it just did. And because there was a good recording, I guess.
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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I think, he means the problems go beyond the police.
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Of course they do, but that's a) not what we're talking about here, and b) I don't know what you intend to do to fix that. There are clear steps that can be taken to ameliorate the policing issue. They're fairly big steps, but if you have buy-in from local government, they're eminently do-able. Structural race inequality is centuries in the making and there are no clear steps to fix that. So when someone talks about vague goals like "shattering the power paradigm", my response is necessarily, "what the #### - in real world terms - does that even mean?"