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In reply to the discussion: "Muslim shooter=entire religion guilty, Black shooter=entire race guilty, White shooter=mentally [View all]Igel
(35,304 posts)Policeman kills black, it's a policeman problem. Or a bad cop. Or a scared, poorly trained cop. Your choice depends on who you are.
A lot of those signs in Ferguson-related marches didn't bother to say "the occasional cop" or "some cops." They were broad-brush signs much of the time.
White kills people, it's because of "gun culture." Or because he's a terrorist. Or mentally deranged. Depends on where you're posting.
Black kills people. It's because he's fomenting a race war or he's in a gang. Or he's angry. Or mentally deranged.
Muslim kills people. It's because he's a jihadi or he's a terrorist or he's mentally deranged. Or perhaps he's acting in self-defense because of Western imperialism and it's really "our" (which means "not us, but them over there that we dislike" .
Again, it depends on who you are. You pick your bias, you pick your group, you pick your hatred or antipathy. And after that you know which is the lone-wolf, mentally deranged, independent actor and you know which are simply manifestations of larger social movements of oppression and privilege or rooted in authentic, righteous rage.
That's whether it's Newtown, Ferguson, the recent Paris incident, or the cop killings in NYC.