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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
If you aren't out there with others demanding answers to troublesome questions involved in policing, then telling those that are that they shouldn't be focusing on issues involving their own community IS telling them to suck it up.
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The second is irrelevant to the first. If I was telling them to suck it up, then that'd be true regardless of what action I was or was not personally taking. This is a transparent diversion. If your opinion is that you can independently determine what I mean regardless of what I actually say, productive discourse is clearly rendered impossible.
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Originally Posted by Isiddiqui
Though, for the record, does the eye for an eye mean if a cop kills an African-American person, that that person's family can kill the cop?
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No it doesn't. It means that anyone convicted for a serious crime doesn't get thrown into a jail where they will be treated like an animal or worse, robbed of all humanity dignity(and in many cases, hope) while the rest of 'polite society' can treat them as basically out of sight, out of mind. It means the punishment fits the crime, justice is served, and then life continues on with the exception of the very rare capital case.