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Not a single person on this planet has said that its just the black guys...Why are you downplaying the racism so much?

Was that response supposed to mean something to me?

I'm not shouting racism, nor am I out to prove it.I'm curious why Faith is downplaying the racism.

Yeah: "My brother is white and he got beat up by cops too. See, it isn't just the blacks..."What is the point of bringing up cops beating up a white person if it wasn't to downplay the perceived racism of cops beating up black people?So, why are you downplaying the racism?What's the point?

Really? What gave you that impression?

You're not making any sense.

Hey, that's you downplaying the racism again.We don't know if the cop(s) was/were racist or not, but you're already leaning towards the side that they aren't.Why is that? In which message were you called a racist?

Yeah right. She's been downplaying the racism since the first sentence in her first post:

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In fact all the recent cases of supposed racism in the deaths of blacks by white cops aren't racism.

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The idea that white cops go into black neighborhoods with racist motives in this day and age is ridiculous.

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Well, I've been watching a bunch of the different videos of the Eric Garner incident at You Tube and my overall impression after all that is that the cops acted with undue force and I have no idea why they felt that necessary. Racism probably not, but overreaction for sure.

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The statistics might tell you that there is a problem when white cops confront blacks in their community when they've committed a crime, but it wouldn't show racism on the part of the whites any more than it could show it on the part of the blacks.

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. I'm curious.Why is her initial reaction to downplay the racism?She doesn't have a dog in this fight, what's the point?

The cops aren't going to attack when they have a chance at losing.They're all about safety so they only shoot at unarmed people.

I'm surprised how well that map correlates with the population:

Ah, so the whole problem is your reading comprehension.I have no desire to hang some kind of accusation on you.I asked you honest questions.You're immediate reaction to talking about white cops killing black people is to deny the racism.I was just curious why you thought that way.

Everybody has a non-zero amount of racism in them. Xenophobia is just human nature.I was curious why your initial response in a discussion about white cops killing black people was to deny the racism.We don't know if they cops were racist or not, but you're first response was that they were not.I'm still curious why you react that way?ABE: As the test in the OP shows, people are biased even when they don't know it.Everybody has some amount of racism.But your reaction is to deny it. Why?Edited by Cat Sci, : No reason given.

Short of the guy announcing that he is performing a racist act, how would we go about showing underlying racism in an individual case like these? Isn't that impossible?Haven't you already admitted in this thread that it cannot be done? You can't really show evidence of racism in an individual case.And the aggregate data won't apply to individual cases either.You know this.You're only calling for evidence because you know it doesn't exist, but I guess that's par for course as far as your honesty goes. I guess that's as close to an answer to why you were downplaying the racism as I'll get. Your reading comprehension is abysmal. I said nothing like that at all, and you just added all that in from your own mind.What I explicitly said was that we don't know if the cops were racist or not.Please don't lie about what I said. You're clearly downplaying the racism.You have been since the first sentence you typed in this thread.But I think I'm beginning to understand why, now, so I don't really care about all the other crap you're making up.

Because everyone has a non-zero amount of racism in them, it is therefore impossible for there to be absolutely no racism involved whatsoever.However, as I explicitly stated, we don't know how much racism impacted the cops actions.So, we do not know if racism was a contributing factor or not.But that didn't stop you from claiming that it wasn't.You claiming that it wasn't was what I was questioning.I never said that the cop was racist. No, its not. Your logic is bad. I knew you didn't actually care about calling for evidence. It was dishonest for you to act like you did. Sure, people are idiots and assholes.

And that is a hollow point because the evidence you are calling for cannot exist.But you already knew that before you made the point.So what's the point, really?