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Originally Posted by indes
Maybe it is. What you're doing to this conversation is basically the same as burning down a store during a protest. It just undermines people looking for real change.
If you think the time for protesting is over and it's time to riot (metaphorically) then power to you.
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You seem like a decent guy/gal, so I am going to assume you don't realize what you are actually saying is quite offensive to me.
This poster has repeatedly denied our struggles even exist in this thread, he may not go around calling us racist names, but he very much is part of the problem. Earlier in this thread it got bad enough that someone insinuated his username was race related.
You are asking me to listen to someone and treat them with respect despite him marginalizing my entire race on a continual basis, essentially stating that if a cop kills me, it's my own fault because institutional racism doesn't exist.
Calling him out for that and calling him what he is, is not akin to burning down a store in a riot. He is not collateral damage, he is not in the wrong place at the wrong time, he is a big part of the problem. This is closer to burning down the police station that employed the officers that murdered George Floyd.
In the end, in a thread where I am fighting to bring awareness to our struggles, trying to show people what we go through, you are defending soemone who is doing the things I am trying to fight against and draw attention to. By defending him, you are defending his actions, which in turn makes you part of the problem too. Like I said above, I don't think that is your intention, but that is what you are doing.