Police Murder George Floyd Then Riot Nationwide (Links to Streams in OP)

[6ix]

i’ll just quote myself from this thread but beyond that not try to ruin anybody with my pessimism

@6ix

Why do you think the whole band only starts playing when a black person is killed ?

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.

Put another way: One black person getting killed by police is one too many, but, the chances of an interaction resulting in a killing is astronomically low. What is very fucking far from astronomically low is a wrongful arrest, car impounding, ticket, that ruins your month or year or life. Motherfucking PTSD. The catch is that if the narrative is framed as “black men are getting killed by police worse than hypermegacovidfluaids” and then, conveniently, reality shows that it’s actually relatively rare, people have a built-in excuse to think everything is fine when it’s very much not fucking fine .