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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Why are you comparing to South Africa? That's not a valid comparison, and you know it. I posted police kill statistics from a variety of industrialized OECD (i.e. "first world") countries that are comparable to Canada earlier in this thread. If you take away the United States, which is a huge outlier among that group, Canadian cops kill citizens an order of magnitude higher than any other first world country. Like more than twice as much as the next closest nation. This is unacceptable to me. It should be unacceptable to you, too. |
Yes.
Cops are killing civilians because our culture dehumanizes marginalized people, especially people of colour and aboriginal peoples, so we value their lives less.
It is true and elementary.
And yes, unacceptable.