Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts

Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by BurningFrog on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:17AM (#12974845)

I think what's important about this is if the big problem is (1) race disproportionality or (2) general police brutality and unaccountability.

If the main problem is (2), but society mobilizes to solve (1), thigs won't get better.

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by kemayo on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:44AM (#12974974)

I feel that these problems are linked.

If we solved (1), everyone would be equally likely to suffer from police brutality. This would make us more likely to then go ahead and fix (2), because suddenly it would no longer be something which mostly happens to long-downtrodden minority groups.

Mind, if we fix (2) first, it's somewhat plausible that we might continue in a situation where minority groups are disproportionately targeted by the police, and we just go "eh, it's not that bad, we're not shooting them all the time any more".

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Re:Twitter Suspends Prominent Alt-Right Accounts by BurningFrog on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:38AM (#12978923)

Your first point only works if we solve (1) by increasing the killings of whites.

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