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Originally Posted by Scorch
Am I missing something here about systemic racism analogy?
Dude may have just compared black people with horses and it doesn’t look like he’s put away the whip yet
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Basically, if you're trying to come up with an analogy for a discussion about race relations, ask yourself at least the following two questions:
1. In my analogy, have I compared one of the races to animals of any type?
2. In my analogy, does one race own the other race?
If your answer to either of these questions is "yes", maybe try out a different analogy.
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Originally Posted by Acey
Malpractice suits don't exist? The point, obviously, is that cops need to be held to a higher standard... like the cop under investigation for using force 79 times in 42 months.
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Re-read my post and try to decide for yourself if what I was trying to say was that malpractice suits don't exist. Be honest with yourself - is that
really what you thought I meant? If not - if that isn't a reasonable way to interpret my post - why did you respond the way that you did?
... if it helps, what I was saying is that doctors' careers are not immediately ended forever when they get a malpractice suit against them. Even if the suit is successful, that is not what happens. Now, is it
possible to have one such suit end your career as a doctor? Are there case where that happens? Of course, if your conduct is found to be bad enough - but it is rare. Malpractice suits are not particularly rare. The same is true for Police, and for complaints against them, as of right now.
Obviously that doesn't suggest that the status quo is fine or that the goal shouldn't be to reduce the number of incidents where police use force against suspects, particularly black suspects. It is simply making the point that what that person said in their tweet was hopelessly stupid.