Ah, another over-educated but lacking-in-wisdom racially prejudice man wants to justify their prejudice -- and the propagandizing of news stories using race as lighter fluid -- based on their FEELINGS and EXPERIENCES, and in turn, your victim-complex. And as one said, when you work to create false victims, you create real ones in the process. It's not meant to diminish your experiences -- they are always valid to YOU -- but they are irrelevant in assessing the circumstances of specific crimes or broader narratives about identity groups. Otherwise that would be prejudice by definitionBearNIt said:You will not win this discussion because while you scour the internet for provocative pictures to post to make your deluded point, my experiences in this world are real such as being stopped by people and asked what I was doing in an area, being told by a cop that he would break my kneecaps, being stopped by the police at gunpoint laid spreadeagle in an intersection just yards from my neighborhood and given the excuse that my friends and I fit the description of robbery suspects only to hear I think we got the wrong guys, having my attendance at Cal questioned by some in the Cal community as affirmative action even though their were others family members that went to Cal, being called derogatory names as I walked through Berkeley, or being stopped again and again in a community I lived in to the point that the issue had to be addressed with the mayor and the police department that no longer would it be tolerated and legal action would pursued if it continued, or having received the "Talk" from my father on how I should conduct myself when I was stopped by the police so I didn't end up a statistic in a police shooting, or having a superior use a racial slur in my presence and try to defend its use, but you keep posting those pictures on the internet that you look so hard for to make your point.GBear4Life said:
All your apologetics are giving me vertigo.
In order to deflect from basic facts about violence, and because you have zero argument to refute how the Ahmed incident was not about two white guys looking to lynch a black man, you have to resort to projecting an unspoken ulterior motive on my part.
I'm used to it, but still, bravo.
There's a reason why we don't permit prejudice and racism against an individual based on their broader experiences with people of that identity group. The world and its rules, and its fairness, do not ride on the whims of yours and anybody's personal experiences. Otherwise that would be prejudice by definition.
My interactions with LE have been few, but I was not impressed with virtually all of them. Strangely I'm able to compartmentalilze those experiences when interacting with LE or speaking about LE more broadly. That's because I"m not prejudice. Fifth graders understand this because they have not been polluted with ideology and haven't learned racial bias via obsevation or personal experiences.
Again, we're not playing the same game. I'm not trying to win -- I have no vested interest in the motives and outcomes of the parties involved in this or any other case, whatever those motives and outcomes are proven or likely to be. They don't matter in the broader picture.
