Re:How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct
by eyelidlessness on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:47AM
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Having internal prejudice which you wish to understand and eliminate, versus actively and purposely organizing or facilitating violence against people of color, are drastically different things. The long history I'm referencing is not people who have hidden prejudices and need to face their demons, it's people who are malicious toward groups of people for their race on purpose.
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Re:How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct
by threatofrain on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:59AM
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These are just different extremes in the expression of racism, which is the unjust treatment of other human beings due to race.
Those who are vehemently racist are likely only a minority of the expressions of racial injustice which minorities face as a lifestyle in America. The answer to both should point to structural solutions rather than making this an individual moral matter, asking people to monitor whether they're consciously racist.
Re:How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct
by eyelidlessness on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:28PM
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> These are just different extremes in the expression of racism
No, they're not! One is quite obviously extreme, the other is quite obviously not. Some things are, and some things are not. Something that isn't can't be. I apologize for paraphrasing a disgusting piece of crap guy in this context, but... please understand that your nothing-matters philosophy is helping people get killed/the people killing them go without accountability.