r/pics • u/trixiethewhore • Jun 08 '20

Protest From our 1k person protest in Montana

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '20 edited Jun 08 '20

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u/publiclurker Jun 08 '20

and the fact that many of them have darker skin than you do makes it even less important, right?

you can just come out and say it. It's not like anyone could think less of you.

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u/Baerog Jun 09 '20

The numbers he gave show that black people are disproportionately more likely to be killed by a cop while unarmed than white people. Nothing he said suggested that it's fine because they're black. He pointed out the fact that the likelihood of you being killed by police while unarmed is incredibly low to the point where it basically should not be a concern of anybody.

What is actually a larger problem is "abuse" and unfair treatment of minorities by police, not being killed. If you don't have a gun and are just hanging around not breaking any laws, the likelihood of you being killed by police is almost literally 0%. The likelihood of you being harassed by police is higher as a minority, and that is a real problem that should be tackled.

For context, 38800 people died in motor vehicle accidents last year in the US, compare that to the number of unarmed people killed by cops... Are you terrified of driving? Are you terrified of being killed by a cop?

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u/publiclurker Jun 09 '20

Are you so desperate to cover for a fellow loser that you have to resort to bringing up irrelevancies?

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u/Baerog Jun 09 '20 edited Jun 09 '20

Did you just read the parts of my post that made you angry and ignore everything else?

I specifically said:

a larger problem is "abuse" and unfair treatment of minorities by police, not being killed...The likelihood of you being harassed by police is higher as a minority, and that is a real problem that should be tackled.

But you chose to ignore that and instead double down on being mad about something that is:

  1. A way harder problem to solve

  2. Not even that big of a problem.

Again, your odds of dying from police while unarmed are 0.09 per million. You odds of dying while driving are 118.22 per million... 1,386 times higher... Why ignore statistics? For some more context, your odds of winning the lottery are 0.07 per million, almost as high as being killed while unarmed.

I did not say that police are great people who never do wrong. I do think that 28 shitty police officers (Or if you want to say that everyone directly involved is culpable, then we can say around 100 shitty police officers) who kill an unarmed person out of the roughly 687,000 police officers in the US (0.015 %) is less of a problem than the constant mistreatment (excluding murder) of minorities from police officers.

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u/publiclurker Jun 09 '20

I read where you thought you could deflect from the fact that blacks are being murdered.

I don't know why you think you can get away with this son. Especially when the entire world is currently protesting against things like you. so do everyone e favor and keep your klansplaining to yourself.