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Originally Posted by nol
I know, you even told me so yourself
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I think that was back in the time I tried to have constructive discussions about this before I saw that you weren't interested in that. Though I definitely stand by that - your thoughts still probably aren't that different than mine, it's all in the tone of the rhetoric and what you're really motivated by. Nobody seems to disagree with the content of my posts, people just get pissed if I acknowledge police officers as individual human beings or talk about the challenges from that side, and related sides, in the continual process of improving. But improvements, where they've happened, definitely haven't been and can't be one-sided. Entities from the government, law enforcement, the community, protesters, those who have been touched by these issues in negative or positive ways all have to play a part (and they do all work together pretty well most places). The most negative rhetoric in these debates just wants to assign negative characteristics to whatever side they don't like and get them to change through - anger and disdain I guess? Actually, I don't think change is the motive for those people. It's just a great chance to express racist feelings in an environment where that will be somewhat more tolerated, or express deep-rooted anger towards vague concepts of systems, and to broadly blame anyone who is a part of those systems. The two types of mindsets are very similar, and like I said, it's a very common trait in bad cops and bad prosecutors who just see the "criminals" as sharing negative traits and acting a certain way when certain things happen. It's very easy to create injustice when you fall into that mindset.