steveeq1
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Comment · 6 years ago
You're playing with semantics.
Comment · 6 years ago
I feel that the "systemic racist" is overplayed, yes. And the graph is sourced.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's overplayed: https://i.stack.imgur.com/WogKi.png
Comment · 6 years ago
In the same way that gangsta rap music is protected, yes.
Comment · 6 years ago
25 years ago was 1995
Comment · 6 years ago
Not youtube, apparently.
Comment · 6 years ago
Ok, what if this person were a thug and he advocates for a "thug life" (as an arbitrary example, a gangsta rapper)? And let's say he committed a lot of crime and physical harm to other people?
Would you issue the same behavior towards him? Would you be very vocal about it?
Comment · 6 years ago
So youtube is going to ban gangsta rap music for the same reasons, right?
Comment · 6 years ago
It's a perfectly valid argument and one that I like to make. The "hate speech" crowd rarely, if ever, protests over rap music and for the life of me I never understood why.
Comment · 6 years ago
It's a perfectly valid comment to people who want to get rid of "hate speech" but say nothing about the popularity of gangsta rap within this same crowd.
I never understood this.
Comment · 6 years ago
Do what?
Comment · 6 years ago
The data does not back that claim: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/163/274/fbf...
And this includes ALL white people, much less "white people who happen to be police officers". My argument is not saying police brutality doesn't "exist", I'm saying it's "overblown".
Finally, I am a "person of color" myself and I don't find the police behave to me in the way you describe. They don't act that way towards my father either, not even once in his life. Or any of my person-of-color friends for that matter. Admittedly, this is anecdotal, but my main point is the overall data does not point towards your premise.