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[quote]DJHT wrote:
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
[quote]Vash wrote:
The thing is we are pretty much under video and audio surveillance 24/7 these days. We have cameras and microphones in our cars, at the station, in the watch house and lots of cops now wear them on their person. Then there’s CCTV and anyone who carries a cell phone has an easily accessible camera on them, so you never know when you are being videod.
Doesn’t seem like that’ll be a problem for long - Are Cameras the New Guns?
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This is absolute horse shit.
How the fuck is this even possible?
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Please. I am all for a joke, but the reason shit like that exists is because you have half a country who hardly ever experiences this crap because of their skin color or to a lesser degree, age. As a result, they see cops as “positive trusting role models” and not people you should be skeptical of.
There is a reason cops are not trusted in minority communities…and isn’t because all of the minorities are criminals or bad people. It is because we have a LONG history of shit like this happened and cops getting off scot free until cameras popped up everywhere.
NOW, since they are on film and suffering because of it, they get the laws changed because the majority never had a problem to start with.
That isn’t fucking “socialism”. It is the by product of a still racist society that has not outgrown it yet.
You would have to think every instance a minority has complained about this to be false to vote that in OR think it could never happen to you.
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The basic reason the minorities are suspected* is because they are so disproportionately criminal. If it’s racism, it’s rational racism. For the same reason, men are disproportionately targeted as potential suspects in various crimes. Is that awful sexism? No. Men are just more criminal overall. The best thing you can do is go along with it, not try to run and accuse others of racism or sexism because that just makes you look like you have something on your conscience.
In addition, trying to lead people away from the truth causes more victims, including the kind that are afraid to trust their base instincts because they are afraid of being labeled ‘racist’. You don’t have to apologize and make excuses for the scum of your group, and that’s one of the best ways to create trust; by refusing to pretend and make excuses for criminals just because they are classified in the same distant group as you, which does not really connect you at all.
That’s like a white guy seeing over huge numbers of children making vitriolic statements about how child abuse and molestation does not exist or is hugely exaggerated by sexist feminists (not that child abuse is intimately connected to whites, just making an analogue). It might make you think if there’s something going on.
Might be easy for me to say being white but hey, white liberals regularly crucify their own race to be accepted so I imagine it would be possible for true equals.
People did not just decide one day that “Hey, let’s start being wary of blacks because they’re black!” Race is much more than skin colour anyway. They started acting that way because they made observations regarding their behaviour. The same way people learned to be wary of ingesting poisonous substances and predatory animals; experience and observation repeated over and over throughout the ages leading to some conclusions regarding probabilities.
Unfortunately that will lead to innocent minorities and innocent men being targeted as well, but that’s just how it goes. Profiling works, overall.
The country is still majority white yet it is not the whites who do commit most of the homicides and violence. It is blacks. It is not whites who go out of their way to target blacks in their crimes, it’s blacks who kill other blacks. None of this can be explained by racism unless we demand whites to be divine, omnipotent beings who somehow prevent minorities from bumbing into each other at these rates and not only make everything much better for them than they would have without whites, but perfect as well.*
This is sort of similar to the situation in an animal rights debate where animal rights people feel that production animals are oppressed because they are not completely free to roam and may experience discomforts. Never mind that the natural life of an animal is not exactly what Disney portrays it to be. But the animal rights folks can theoretically complain forever about some ‘unnatural’ problem that comes along with guaranteed full meals, veterinary care and protection from predation and fellow competition.
I’m not saying that minorities are non-sentient animals; but that they make the smart move to search for the easier life in a racially alien society which treats them better than their natural one does. They are also smart if they keep making more demands and the host keeps on giving, which is what seems to be happening (and so the money that is poured on immigrant minorities for being minorities, by my country, is so much better than that received by so many born and bred hard workers that it causes bitterness). Whether they can still be respected the same, as people, is a different matter.
*Though it seems the asians don’t complain much and integrate fairly well.
*Complaining about cops mistreating minorities in itself is legitimate IMO. People should complain about that, so the system would perhaps smoothen out and draw closer to the perhaps inattainable goal of perfection. It is only when people make the contention that the race of the cops or the majority race of the land is the problem that I get irritated. As all evidence seems to indicate that minorities, so to speak, are the biggest danger to minorities and provide the least services.
A fact which also makes light of the argument of ‘if only minorities policed each other’ is that the same people who blame the Y-man tend to be highly offended by the suggestion of segregation. In other words, they long for a fantasy that can only be attained by their own people making a huge U-Turn in their ways. Unless being a cop somehow changes the very essence of people, having white cops replaced with black cops would only make life harder for blacks.