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April 22, 2021, 11:45pm
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I hate tapping the sign:
The years before I started playing poker I helped a friend research a book about wrongful arrests, convictions and/or sentencings. Nobody gives a fuck. Forget privileged white people, do you know hard it was to teach an average lower-middle-class urban black person to say “what were they convicted for” instead of “what did they do”? Jon Burge And Crew tortured dudes in the basements of police stations to get them to confess to murders. Nobody gave a fuck, and nobody can remember or ever knew the victims’ names.
However, when the whole world is forced to watch a snuff film that’s when delicate sensibilities are offended and polite society declares the whole affair a bridge too far, and the performative white generalized guilt and the performative black survivor’s guilt cum victimhood fetishization breaks the levees. But they don’t want anything to fundamentally change, they just don’t want to watch snuff films.
Yell at me and tell me I’m wrong, I hope I am. Maybe it’s just a case of this incident happening the same day as the Chauvin verdict has people kneejerk trying to put a square peg in a round hole because that last round peg fit to perfection.
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