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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
I’m confused here, I thought the protests were against discrimination and police brutality... but all the videos I see have blanketed all police officers as the same, with massive hatred for anyone who has the uniform on. Isn’t that exactly the type of stereotyping that the people are protesting?
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Wow, yes, you clearly are confused. I don’t mean to be blunt, but you’re missing enough context and are behind enough on the issue that I think it’s your responsibility to educate yourself here. You can start with reading this thread, you can read a few of the hundreds of articles being published, you can even google “why are people protesting” (it’s true, it’s that easy) and you’ll get up to speed.
Very briefly, with the expectation that you’ll go do the work to get up to speed, these protests are not about stereotyping. But they are very much about police brutality. You also seem to be missing the videos of countless acts of police brutality in response to these protests, and even just the positive videos of protestors and police having honest, helpful dialogue. So you should probably just watch more than whatever one-sided source you have going on.
Good luck!