this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2024
611 points (98.0% liked)
Funny: Home of the Haha
5863 readers
441 users here now
Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.
Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!
Our Rules:
-
Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.
-
No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.
-
Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.
Other Communities:
-
/c/TenForward@lemmy.world - Star Trek chat, memes and shitposts
-
/c/Memes@lemmy.world - General memes
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
This is funny, and police do murder innocent dark skin ethnicities at a much higher rate, but that doesn't just erase the other ~~7/10ths~~ 5/10ths of executions which are white people.
Edit: white to black was a 7:3 ratio but it's more like 5/10ths when you include other demographics.
Thats some right wing talking point. It's valid that we overfocus on the race issue. Though you also have to consider the amount of white people available for exexution vs black people. Unfortunately using bad statistics only gets those race people to focus on race more rather than the OP stats cops have in general. We about to be downvoted into oblivion though. This is Lemmy! You cant say things like that in the echo chamber :,)
Are you saying my talking point is right wing? Because I see it the opposite way. I see that sweeping victims under the rug that right wing people can associate and potentially empathize with makes it a partisan issue when instead we should all be united against police brutality and unjust murders of all our peoples. It could be any of us, at any moment, without any consequence for them.
Making police out to be an Anti-Black figure is in itself a conservative political philosophy that too many right-wingers would support.
Yes, I would agree. But this is lemmy. And I hope I'm wrong about people's reaction here. I'm speaking for people who I do not support, and who's ideas don't make logical sense to me, so i will shut up now and let those people make their questionable points instead.