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Originally Posted by Bent Wookie
Your stats are way off base.
I think thats part of the issue some on the board are pointing out to you and pepsi. You present yourselves as having some insider knowledge or educated opinion. But in reality, you cherry pick whatever information you need to support your already formed opinion.
And you side stepped the question because it makes you feel uncomfortable to challenge your belief.
Someone made a comment earlier in the thread that I think many should rethink - its ok to be outraged by what happened to Floyd, and also be outraged by the riots. Both are senseless.
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I can’t speak for afc, but I’ve made pretty clear that my opinions are my opinions, gained from who I know and what I’ve learned, and I’ve been happy to share and discuss that. If you think they’re cherry-picked, I don’t really know what to do with you, opinions are born from what you learn, that’s how these things work, and the idea that I, as a white person, had pre-formed opinions about just how hard it is to be black in America, and not opinions radically changed and formed by living there, forming real relationships, and trying my best to just listen and learn more because I genuinely loved the people around me (and that’s what you do when you care about your friends or if you’re just a good neighbour, you just talk to them and learn about them, is this different for you?), is funny. You don’t have to have an agenda to care about people different from yourself.
I don’t think you need to have lived in the US and actually have listened to what it’s like to be black in America first hand from those who have experienced it to have an opinion on this as a white person. That’s where mine comes from, doesn’t make it better or worse, it’s just my own, and I’m going to be as passionate about it as I feel like. But to dismiss it as cherry-picked to support pre-formed opinions? To that, I don’t know what to say. If actually listening to people’s experiences is “cherry picking information” when you’re later relaying those experiences, I’m not sure how stories are supposed to be shared and how we’re supposed to learn from each other.
As far as the riots go, I would just recommend people keep their outrage in perspective and consider the context. Nobody is outraged at just the murder of George Floyd on an individual level, that shows a complete misunderstanding of what’s going on here. Let’s open up the ears and listen and learn. It’s not “cherry picking” if you do, it’s actually how you understand the bigger issue.
There are business owners less upset about their business being destroyed than posters here. There are people will serious, life changing injuries less upset about what happened to them than posters here. These are the people in this, and they get it. If you’re more outraged by the riots than a business owner who lost his business to riots, ask yourself if you’re seeing the real issue.