pineknollshoresking said:Good lord, Civ!Civilized said:I think some people need to see a cop wearing a Klan hoodie while killing a black guy for them to think race played a part.James Henderson said:You'd think everyone would look at things from a common sense standpoint. It's so easy.TheStorm said:Nope. James just doesn't look at things from a "political" angle... he tends to focus more on "common sense" with issues like this and of course he's nailed it again...hokiewolf said:damn, James wanders into The Water Cooler and brings fireJames Henderson said:
I need to be President because here is what I'd do.
Within precincts have white and black cops split into divisions. When a 911/disturbance call comes in, first question is what race are you? If it's a white person on the phone, send a white cop. If it's a black person, send a black cop. As a native American I don't know what they'd do if one of us calls, but no one seems to really care about non-white/non-black people now anyways so I guess just send whoever.
But if you handle it this way when a cop shoots someone, race won't be the issue. Then it's just about the cop making the right or wrong decision (which is is what I tend to think it is 9 times out of 10 now anyways, but this will clean it all up).
See, make me President!
Does Chauvin need to be punished? You're damn right. Do I think he did what he did because George Floyd was black? No. I think he's a cop who doesn't properly know how to do his job, at least in that instance, and for that, he should be punished for it.
People that feel that way think that unconscious bias is a made-up thing.
Unconscious bias permeates a lot of what we do and how we interact with the world every day but I get that some people think of it as all or nothing.
For them it's binary, either the cop is an avowed racist and killed a suspect because he consciously hates blacks, or else we must conclude that race played no part at all. There's no room for a more nuanced view.
Relatedly, a lot of these issues boil down to two camps but it's not Democrats and Republicans, it's people that are much more comfortable with black and white labels, and people that view life as full of nuance.
Good cop/bad cop
Law-abiding citizen/criminal
Racist/not racist
Responsible/irresponsible
Life is full of shades of gray and unfortunately isn't always that simple.
The **** got thick on that one.