@RealTimers@billmaher@BrookeJenkinsSF@JohnAvlon@KatrinaNation@HBO@BrookeJenkinsSF: Seems to me the terrible irony of the so-called “progressive prosecutor” movement is that these policies/practices disproportionately harm/patronize people of color; vast majority good/law abiding citizens living amongst a few people who terrorize them. Agree?
@wil_da_beast630 It matters because:
1) It’s important to recognize maintaining race as a construct and fixating on it is a business
2) What about everyone else? I think I’d be super-annoyed watching all of this if I was, for instance, an East-Indian American. Am I chopped liver?
@BretWeinstein@AndrewYang I have no idea what he wrote. Regular people don’t care to keep score of what well-intentioned people say. No need for him or you to justify or apologize to us, and you’re not going to (nor should you care to) change the minds of people playing this dumb game.
@SteveBellow The problem is that it’s too hard for most to resist. White people get to jettison their guilt and signal their virtue, and some black people can’t help but play along and take advantage. And neither one by and large care about the medium and long-term effects on black people.
@SteveBellow I have no idea. I just know they do it and there seems to be no recourse other than potentially political. But there seems to be no consequence for trying to pull off the lie.
@VaStatesman7@kmele Here’s a stand: I’m going to treat people how I want to be treated, and I don’t want to be judged, limited, labeled, pigeonholed, patronized, and so on, due to my “skin color.” We are just going to be humans to each other over here, and you all can keep playing this race game.
@Ringmaster40 @SteveBellow @JoeGiacalone@nypost I don’t think we’re disagreeing, but I’ll put it one more way: there’s a playbook. Enact policies that inevitably increase crime, and then put out statistics, information, etc. claiming it’s doing the opposite. At some point, yes, the pendulum will come back.
@SteveBellow @JoeGiacalone@nypost No matter what happens; literally no matter what (there could be an exponential increase in crime), he and his team will produce statistics that show crime is either the same, or much more likely, down, since he took office. This is an absolute certainty.
@SteveBellow @Jerry_Ratcliffe@PeterMoskos @pourover16 It would be hard not to feel afraid if you were told on a daily basis police are looking to kill you. That’s not to say that other factors don’t also come into play, but this is hard to underestimate in this context.
@OfficerDunphy@darkblue714@JoeGiacalone Imagine if hospitals stopped using chemo and radiation because lung cancer numbers keep climbing, citing the proposition that their system should change because it’s obviously not working. And then imagine they were the ones handing out cigarettes the whole time.