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Ka-pi96 said:

tsogud said:

@bolded: Racism is not a difference of opinion.

You're literally a racist or you're not. Which are you? How you will respond to these demonstrations will tell you.

@bolded/italicized: Only if you're white/white-passing. George Floyd didn't have a gun and was cooperating, and was beat up and killed. Trayvon Martin was a teenager walking home, no gun, and shot to death. Eric Garner didn't have a gun, was suffocated to death. Breonna Taylor was laying in her bed when police busted through her door and killed her, she didn't have a gun. There are COUNTLESS instances of unprovoked violence and death perpetuated by the police with no gun on the victim. It's not about guns on the victim, it's about the racism that permeates throughout our country and it manifests itself in corrupt institutions such as the police force and it results in the countless deaths of innocent black and brown individuals. Listen to black people when they speak and educate yourself on the BLM movement before you cast your lot.

It was already an "us vs them (racists/and those that enable them)" situation and has been since the founding of America. 

Perhaps. If you think commiting crimes based on skin colour is justifiable then you're a racist. If you think the violent "protests" are bad, then you might not be a racist (you might be though, being anti-violence and believing people shouldn't commit crimes doesn't prove it one way or the other).

Yeah, there have been far too many times that people who had no right being cops abused their position to hurt or kill people. The individuals responsible should be dealt with through the justice system, but the cops that had nothing to do with it? Don't assume they're racist/bad just because they're cops.

The "them" aren't racists though. Not every cop is racist, some of them yes and that is a problem, but not all of them. Besides, even if every single cop were a racist (which is almost certainly not the case) innocent people are suffering because of these riots. That is not justifiable in any way.

Yeah. You're definitely part of the problem. And you need to listen and learn and come correct before you start talking about things you don't fully understand.

Being a cop is a choice, being black is not. Signing up for corrupt and racist institution and being complicit is a choice, being killed by an officer because your black isn't. Every cop who doesn't stand up and speak is complicit and enables violence. Silence is violence.