Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by b6 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @09:28AM (#16035339)

I understand what you're going for, but I think this idea would just reinforce the imaginary walls we use to group humans. The underlying idea is that X-people understand X-people, where X is some arbitrary group, but non-X-people lack the perspective they need. For example, we consider people with black skin to be a group, but not people with blue eyes, or people who can curl their tongues. Let's just work our way toward thinking people are just people instead.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by ethbro on Saturday December 30, 2017 @04:12PM (#16037642)

The problem is that juries without a minority on them absolutely find minorities guilty at a higher rate than when one or more minorities are on the jury.

As the thread below noted, it's not fair to have historical conditions that produced winners (white men, countries with colonies, etc) and then make things more equal by saying "That's all over" and failing to recognize the results of previous injustice that are still embedded in our lives.

I could have offered other suggestions. I specifically said 'juries that roughly reflect their communities in racial and sexual senses'. I don't feel that's an unreasonably burdensome ask in pursuit of Justice.

http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D13...

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by QAPereo on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:56AM (#16036051)

Sure, but let’s not pretend the last millennium didn’t happen or shape the present in critical ways.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by PrimHelios on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:49PM (#16036316)

How is that in any way relevant? How does that at all mean that black people better understand black people, or justify explicitly selecting a jury on the basis of something arbitrary like skin color?

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by PrimHelios on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:51PM (#16036722)

So build a post-racial world by building up racial barriers and continuing the "other"-ness of people with different skin colors? I'm not trying to be a dick or strawman you, that's the only thing I can get from this comment.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by QAPereo on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:13PM (#16036865)

Build a post racial world by acknowledging that racial barriers exist independently of your thoughts, seek to weaken them and repair ongoing harm. The most powerful group playing pretend isn’t going to fix a damned thing. Trying to pretend that everything is better now... please explain how you see this working?

Edit: Or just downvote and move on, that says something too.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by linkregister on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:48AM (#16039540)

Note about HN down voting: when replying to a post, the parent poster cannot down vote you. The down vote you were awarded came from another commenter.

At this time, this comment has positive karma. At any rate, complaining about down voting distracts from your very good point.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by QAPereo on Sunday December 31, 2017 @02:51PM (#16042462)

Fair enough, I’ll keep that in mind going forward. Thanks for taking the time to teach.

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