SvennoJ said:
pikashoe said:
I agree that change needs to happen, but is this the way to do it at this particular moment in time. If this pandemic wasn't going on I'd be supportive of these protests. I'm just afraid of the potentially massive cost of life that will come from this. We know if a big spike does arise that dumb racists will just use it as a way to justify there racism. Which could end up making racial tensions even worse.
Maybe you're right and these protests will make things better, but there's also a chance that they wont and things could get even worse.
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Logic is not humanities strong point.
Last year 235 black people were killed by the police in the USA.
21,878 black people were killed by covid19 up to may 26, about 21.7% of the total deaths at that point.
Last week had 5306 reported deaths in the USA, thus about 1150 black people lose there lives, every week while this keeps going.
(Black people have a higher death rate, however in absolute numbers, still more white people die of covid19)
The USA has already lost its decline and is hovering around break even week over week.
So yes, logic says, these protests will end up killing far more people than the police managed in many years.
However you can't protest a virus nor hold a virus responsible. Racism kills in far more ways than police brutality and its about time some real changes happen. Tanking the economy is a way to force reform and people have died for less worthy causes. It sucks though that its mostly the 60+ that will take the hit of these protests. (80% of deaths are people over 60) Old people are racists anyway....
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Ageism is no more acceptable than racism. Let's not make those kinds of broad accusations against any group.
