And yet... they keep on doing it.
Enjoy!!!
https://www.nber.org/papers/w22399
Seriously, fuck off with this bullshit argument. Law enforcement officers are part of the US government and have been murdering black people for years without consequence. Their superiors and people throughout the system have rarely punished them. It's a systemic issue and as such, is "the US doing it."
Because its not as if policies aren't used a certain way and are ignored by the higher ups and the police union all the time. Its called "plausible deniability".
fuck, even during the Dallas incident last year most of the stupid cops and Texas Rangers were trying to find reasons to blame the victim for being shot in his own apartment, like "finding pot". That's a systemic issue, not an individual one.
in Fort Worth, when one fo the few "good cops" released a video showing police brutality against a woman and her daughter WHO CALLED THEM FOR HELP IN THE FIRST PLACE, he got fucking demoted and ended up leaving.
Hollywood Racism:
Actual Racism:Originally Posted by The Boy in the Striped Pajamas christ people I get that you want an Oscar but stop making the same Holocaust movie every three years
Originally Posted by I dunno some vial of weaponised sewage
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
Except this is a lie.
We have a clear example, in the incident this thread is about.
It may not be based on any official policy, but the "thin blue line" that defends racist, abusive cops absolutely is a systemic policy issue. That it's difficult to get them fired, let alone charged (and let's be clear; the officer who murdered this man has not yet been charged) is a systemic policy issue.
Crash can really best be summed up as "why racism is bad, as written by casual racists who don't think they're racist". The movie ignores systemic racism and the massive consequences thereof entirely by trying to make the issue about random petty abuses and that's it and we can just hug it out and it's fine.
Fuck. That. Noise.
Let's talk about these model minorities and what they had to do just to be left alone in the US.
Asians immigrants were freely killed, abused, and taken advantage of in the late 1800s, early 1900s. They were forced to live in the gutters of towns with no access to local economies. They were shoved in concentration camps in their own countries.
Society views Asian Americans as caricatures more than people. 'Model minority' is patronizing and just another way to say, "look at this group we made accept the scraps we gave them.' Asian Americans, no matter how long they lived in the US, as still viewed as some sort of immigrant that achieved citizenship. Everyone is 'Chinese', everyone is a math nerd with a thick accident of broken English. In pop culture it's still 100% okay to only cast Asians as stereotypes from the 1950s: gotta know karate, can't be fluent, probably the villain, and/or the supporting character's supporting character. Asian women are fetishized and Asian men are emasculated.
Just look at the way people quickly turned their backs on Asians when the pandemic hit.
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