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It's a terrible timeline to be in at the moment, at least white people are experiencing the policing non-whites suffer from in this country (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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[–] 4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I think the issue is that they were executed in a situation where they posed no danger to the officer. This would be frightening for any legal citizen. Please stop picking apart peoples reasons for being against this, we need unity now more than ever and all this logic does is force a useless purity test that gets us no where.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Please stop picking apart peoples reasons for being against this, we need unity now more than ever

    Thank you.

    It's depressing that this is so far down the thread, and has so few up votes.

    If Americans don't pull together and work in a coordinated way they'll never defeat the faccist takeover of their country.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    There needs to be a word beyond shortsighted that defines individuals who let perfect be the enemy of good.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The above commenter was simply trying to say that anyone who uses the term "purity test" has failed their purity test...

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    That's kind of derailing. Nobody is downplaying that (except the racists who are are perpetuating the problem, but they're okay with this too). Most people here have probably also been speaking out against all the violence against POC.

    If someone commented on a post about a POC being murdered by cops/ICE, and said "but what about the white people they killed," you would call that derailing. And that's exactly what you're doing here.

    You're downplaying the tragedy that is the implicit topic of this current post, which is the woman who was recently murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. You apparently don't care about this event, because the victim was white, and you're arguing that we should ignore it simply because she wasn't a POC.

    we need to stand against this behavior now more than ever.

    Yes, exactly, so why are you taking issue with people doing just that?

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