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Originally Posted by Itse
I also have a comment on the looting:
While I don't support looting, to some extent I get it. Not the white guy who takes the opportunity to steal a Lego set (Seriously that happened  ), and not every looter, but... We live in a consumerist society where to be normal is to have stuff. If you're a poor black person in America, I get that you might feel the game is so rigged against you that it's okay for you to break the rules too, and just take stuff when the opportunity arises.
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If people are looting a Target or a Walmart, multi-billion dollar international corporations I just...can't bring myself to feel all that bad. Those organizations spend more in lobbying against minimum raise hikes than they're losing to looters. Small businesses? That's appalling and it should never happen. But you wanna snag a TV from Walmart? I'm pretty sure the Walton family isn't gonna notice they lost that $300.
On the nature of rioting and protesting, the nature of how looting can destroy livelihoods--what about biased policing?
How many livelihoods have been destroyed when police arrested a black man for a non-violent offence?
How many livelihoods have been destroyed because black men face greater consequences for lesser crimes?
How many livelihoods have been destroyed because a black person has a criminal record and they cannot get a job?
How many livelihoods have been destroyed because
the police killed someone in cold blood?
Yes rioting and looting ruins livelihoods, but systemic racism does the exact same thing, on a far larger scale.
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Originally Posted by 81MC
I’ll bet everything I own that your average police officer is put in more dangerous, stressful and critical positions and part of their career than a majority of professions. And hanging a donut during a time of historically significant upheaval is not a impetus for change. It absolutely reeks of something en entitled college kid would do, thinking they’re witty but missing the entire ####ing point by a country mile.
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According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 2020, Police have the
16th most dangerous profession in America. Well behind professions such as fishers, logging workers, and garbage men, and just slightly ahead of people who work in construction or maintenance and repair.
And I would argue that the other professions on that list have far less leeway with regards to misconduct.
https://www.ajc.com/business/employm...gkt2zYCLfqfJJ/