Just look through this thread. These are the practices that we've got BIPARTISAN defense for. Because both parties love prisons and cops, and dehumanization of criminals is a universal political byline in the US. This is the exact shit we use to justify invasions.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes Considering the police are the ones who create the data from which we derive those statistics, you're not wrong, but it's also highly suspect. Especially when compared to actual convictions and including eventual exonerations.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes If the police cannot shoot, you have 0 unjustified shootings. Considering how many of those police interactions are needless, and based on revenue-raising activities such as traffic stops, rather than actual criminal investigation, it seems like we can replace them.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes Is that all you think happened, by the way? You think some people sat in some restaurants? You're wholly unaware of the actual marches, the streets being blocked, etc?
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes The uprisings were pretty much identical. They were peaceful protests against systemic injustice that were turned into riots via police assaulting them or through provocateurs.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes Black communities aren't a monolith. Experts who have put serious thought into the problem and who have reviewed the data (police resolve fewer than 50% of crimes, steal billions through civil asset forfeiture, and routinely assault and murder folks wrongly) support abolition.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes I think that it's in the best interests of society if the lasting harms of slavery are corrected, so that we don't have significant populations who are substantially economically disadvantaged as a results of past actions. Rising tides lift all boats, etc.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes We tasked private companies with that, via car insurance. It would be cheaper and more efficient if it was done by entities that didn't profit, or if cars were phased out as necessary.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes Abolishing the police and seeking better alternatives is a colorblind policy. The Civil Right Act was a response to uprisings identical to BLM and the push for CRT which saw exactly the same kind of pushback in its time. Equity is good, actually.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes I don't see how ignoring it has ever decreased it. It's insidious and deeply rooted in the fundamental systems of this country. Letting a wound fester never leads to increased health.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes From the individuals? Society should have already addressed their guilt, but also bears a responsibility to provide for those who have been harmed.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes You can, though. Past discrimination caused lasting consequences due to the nature of intergenerational wealth and poverty. The descendants of the folks being discriminated against were also harmed by the discrimination. "Guilt" is irrelevant.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes I am wholly aware that the liberal answer to past and present systemic racism is poorly tailored and builds resentment, if that's what you mean by "the observer effect". That's what happens when you keep society competitive and try to trust markets to make moral decisions.
@iwolf6645@DrakeSadron@sticky_feets@AriDrennen 7-14% regret rate for every other surgery. 1-2% for vaginoplasties (usually because it doesn't look exactly like she imagined). But they REALLY want to misrepresent that margin-of-error-sized regret rate.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes I'm indicating that there's more than the social factor at play with being transgender: it's primarily about our bodies.
CRT is just awareness of how the social implications are baked into the system. Y'all constantly confuse pointing out the problem with causing the problem.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes And yet they aren't analogous since in the absence of the social implications, we have no reason to suspect that there could possibly be a meaningful difference between internal self-perception and biological function that might cause distress and possible death.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes Because it's literally impossible to inflict senescence on a kid, for one thing. Sounds like a strange isolated case that would need medical professionals to judge it.
@bropedio @RatherN05894687 @roswell_0629 @sarahkateellis@glaad@nytimes Because they're suddenly being treated differently because of age driving the idea that they're senescent, whereas they've forgotten the ways that their sex drove their social status throughout the rest of their lives?