It's very strange how people here aren't focusing more on the racial aspect of this. IMO, this was mostly racial. Can you imagine some Black man choking a blonde chick to death out in public while a crowd of people just stood there doing nothing? I don't think there's any circumstance, outside of the Black man being a cop maybe, where people would just stood there and watch it happen while doing nothing. It doesn't matter if this blonde chick is homeless or looks like a crackhead or trailer trash or whatever. People would've absolutely done something. So why did they do nothing? Because he's Black and his murderer is white.
I could see it happening the same way if it was still a white man but a white woman victim if she was visibly homeless. I think you’re right that people would’ve stopped a black man from choking someone to death, but I think that would be true for any victim except maybe another black man.
It’s very strange how people here aren’t focusing more on the racial aspect of this. IMO, this was mostly racial. Can you imagine some Black man choking a blonde chick to death out in public while a crowd of people just stood there doing nothing? I don’t think there’s any circumstance, outside of the Black man being a cop maybe, where people would just stood there and watch it happen while doing nothing.
Respectfully, I can't imagine such a scenario. I'm not trying to be an edgelord, not trying to stop the conversation, nothin' like that. In fact, I would like to continue talking about this (even though it's a rather uncomfortable, complex and nuanced hypothetical), but I can't imagine such a scenario happening. Could a situation happen? Certainly, but I can't imagine a black man (or at the very least none that I know) putting a white person, in a public space, in a chokehold for 15 minutes. Unless there was noticeably clear and present damage (a gun, a knife, something spooky), I can't see that level of committed violence happening in a public space by choice.
Again not trying to shut you down or anything like that, but my larger put is that white supremacy isn't just poor black man vs vigilante white man, it's more than. My point I hope I'm making is, that the black reasons why the black man is poor are the greater threat to black people than individual man horrific act. The many failings that put Neely on the streets are the things are the great threat to Black men.
I really hope this comes across as constructive and conversational, not trying to block you or do some weird internet sharp witted shit. I respect you bring up the point.
(This all of the top of the dome by the way, pardon my grammar, typed this on my break)
It's very strange how people here aren't focusing more on the racial aspect of this. IMO, this was mostly racial. Can you imagine some Black man choking a blonde chick to death out in public while a crowd of people just stood there doing nothing? I don't think there's any circumstance, outside of the Black man being a cop maybe, where people would just stood there and watch it happen while doing nothing. It doesn't matter if this blonde chick is homeless or looks like a crackhead or trailer trash or whatever. People would've absolutely done something. So why did they do nothing? Because he's Black and his murderer is white.
I could see it happening the same way if it was still a white man but a white woman victim if she was visibly homeless. I think you’re right that people would’ve stopped a black man from choking someone to death, but I think that would be true for any victim except maybe another black man.
Respectfully, I can't imagine such a scenario. I'm not trying to be an edgelord, not trying to stop the conversation, nothin' like that. In fact, I would like to continue talking about this (even though it's a rather uncomfortable, complex and nuanced hypothetical), but I can't imagine such a scenario happening. Could a situation happen? Certainly, but I can't imagine a black man (or at the very least none that I know) putting a white person, in a public space, in a chokehold for 15 minutes. Unless there was noticeably clear and present damage (a gun, a knife, something spooky), I can't see that level of committed violence happening in a public space by choice.
Again not trying to shut you down or anything like that, but my larger put is that white supremacy isn't just poor black man vs vigilante white man, it's more than. My point I hope I'm making is, that the black reasons why the black man is poor are the greater threat to black people than individual man horrific act. The many failings that put Neely on the streets are the things are the great threat to Black men.
I really hope this comes across as constructive and conversational, not trying to block you or do some weird internet sharp witted shit. I respect you bring up the point.
(This all of the top of the dome by the way, pardon my grammar, typed this on my break)
Doesn't your response that you literally can't see the situation occuring lend credence to the idea that a huge part of this is racial?
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I think they just don't get what a counterfactual is