The largest minority and most vulnerable people in the US aren't black, theyre Latino. What we do to protect black people protects them as well.
This crowd (on this forum) will move on to the next echo chamber pretty quickly. People who actually care will be out making sure people know how to vote and know what the candidates stand for.
And if the protests had been peaceful to begin with, that entire argument wouldn't have happened. — Echarmion
The latter - happening in this thread and elsewhere in the media - is infinitely worse than the former. — StreetlightX
Infinitely worse than destroying things that have nothing to do with the police? — Marchesk
I’m going to refrain from grouping people according to some abstract demarcation such as race, but tyranny is tyranny and injustice is injustice. The greatest minority is the individual, and if we stand for one we stand for them all. — NOS4A2
Because of ONE man who KNEW very well what he was doing and what it would cause. White supremacists are probably laughing their ass off and high fiving eachother right now while minorities continue to march around and get arrested instead of furthering their education and becoming that cop.. that politician.. that professor.. that prosecutor.. whatever position it is that inequality resides in. — Outlander
they say there is no absolute legitimacy to the rule of law when the law itself is used as the cudgel of a dominant group against a dominated group.
To them, it then becomes more a question of what tactics advance each group's interests than what are "acceptable"/lawful.
So, your cartoonish rendering of your opponent's position is imo a function of your inability to see their perspective not any inherent absurdity of the perspective itself.
Fine, if you don't want to go there, but those of us who don't see a level playing field to begin with are not insane in not seeing what you're seeing as a means to reset it.
It doesn't make sense to me how people can support destroying businesses which had nothing to do with Floyd's death or mistreatment towards blacks by police in general. — BitconnectCarlos
So I am going to throw all my toys out of the pram, and all your toys out of your pram, and every other bugger's toys out of their prams, until everyone altogether decides that this will not pass. This is war. Don't act surprised when Poland gets invaded. — unenlightened
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