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Originally Posted by Birdman10687
mets is all about cops shooting people, and you don't here him saying "what good is the cops shooting people going to do?? are all criminals just going to give up and stop committing crime?"
but then he said something stupid like "what good are protests?? is it going to make them disband the police?"
just really bad stuff
Yup, this is the crux of the issue. The cops killing people is the status quo, and violence in response is seen as an affront to our country.
No one ever asks what the cops hope to do or accomplish when they are violent. The self-defense thing quickly falls apart too, because you can easily make a case that citizens can feel threatened for their lives before attacking a cop/running/etc. We had this conversation with Rayshard Brooks - the police said they had to shoot because a taser was a lethal weapon. Well, they had tasers! Black people get killed by cops. Cops have lethal weapons. Why can't he be protecting his life by trying to fight back? Why is it always "well, they shouldn't have resisted"?
The answer is much of the country is very comfortable having black people killed by cops. They pretend to be sorry, but aren't really. You can't actually feel sorry and repeatedly defend the police.
Cop makes some bs story about feeling threatened so kills someone "Well, they should have complied".
Citizen feels threatened by cops and attacks a cop "Thugs attacking our police, they should obviously die!"
So much of the country is comfortably racist. A lot of the rest of the country is uncomfortably racist (which is progress, and where many of us probably are).
So, cops killing being okay = status quo means it won't change without serious threats to the status quo. The only way to threaten the status quo is violence, looting, and retaking property. Business and rich white men loot the middle class and poor every single day, and no one gives a damn. All the sudden when it's Black men, or in opposition of police, is looting seen as bad.
It sucks cities need to burn, but again, it is a natural progression to the oppression of our country. I'd be SHOCKED if more of the country doesn't have to burn before anything changes.
Last edited by chim17; 09-24-2020 at 05:57 PM.