I just don’t know. I’d like to hear an honest answer from the cop. I looked at it and couldn’t believe it. It was a ‘what makes you do something like that’ incident for me. The other cops were BAME if you like which makes it even more difficult to comprehend.

COYP

Research has actually shown that BAME cops are not any less likely to engage in racially discriminatory policing than white cops. Which implies that the problem is systemic and institutional. If you cannot fathom why an individual would act in this way, don't think of that officer as an individual but the embodiment of a system.

The problem is that you've assigned a one dimensional position to people you disagree with then denigrated that, which is what people tend to do. Someone could just as easily do the same with the opposite politics, and say that huge numbers of people did attribute Rigby's murder to Muslims in a sweeping sense, while distancing what George Floyd's killer or some white supremacist church attacker did from having any meaning beyond that single event. I'm not a fan or typical defender of religion, but the point stands.

As we essentially agreed on before, there is a degree of hypocrisy in all. The fact that several were entirely unbothered by violence, including against police during rioting in France, some like W12 actively cheering on riots, highlights that. It's not much different to someone supportive of current protests focusing on what they deem to be their cause while being indifferent or turning a blind eye to the violent participants. Both perspectives are unfortunate mirror images.

Just as some of the more ardent BLM types clearly have entirely ludicrous and sweepingly racist takes on white people as a whole, we have people here geeing themselves up over street brawl clips, deducing from it that black people are "third world no matter where they are" and that it's in "their nature" to behave like this, when clearly the vast majority of people would never engage in such acts. The anger demonstrated left and right is two sides of the same coin and due to selective caring.

I honestly believe that the parallel existences that those on both the wayward end of left and right opt into on social media has f***ed a lot of people up mentally. Like a kid in a candy shop, giving people exactly what they want rather than a balanced totality of the good, bad and the ugly realities of what they both believe and don't believe leads to very warped perspectives. Something tells me that those twitter "commentators" knowingly trotting out their intentionally easy to digest, one dimensional takes are doing much better financially from their venture than their adherents are emotionally.

Edited by BlueJay (04 Jun 2020 3.46pm)

So what's wrong with shooting them ?

The Macpherson report was and is complete and utter bulls***.

As for 'institutional racism', it's a meaningless term.....It calls everybody racist because they enforce the laws.

I know, let's just have a black police force that polices majority black areas and a white police force for white areas.

I have little doubt what would happen....but hey, that's the only logical conclusion to this utter nonsense.

Edited by Stirlingsays (04 Jun 2020 3.57pm)

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