New, disturbing details have emerged about an incident that got a Kansas sheriff's deputy charged with second-degree murder for the death of a Black man in custody, reported The Guardian on Friday — with the death bearing a striking resemblance to the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis five years...
What, again?
Honestly after Floyd and the reaction of some people, I’m not convinced we learned a damn thing.
We did. Some people learned the wrong thing.
Fox News and OANN painted every single person that stood up against brutality targeting black people as violent terrorists.
And the viewers just… Believed them. Like, they didn’t question it for even a second.
We are up against some of the dumbest and most cruel people on the planet. They have been teaching their families and communities to be like this, and they react to whatever current scapegoat or buzzword without question.
Watch, tomorrow it’ll be something even dumber… “The left handed people are ruining the entire country! If their skin isn’t white they are literal terrorists. The head pedophile that’s done the most rapes must win the next election or God will punish America. ::furious heart goes out salutes::”
As an exercise in empathy, I often imagine what the “dumbest and most cruel people on the planet” would be like if they weren’t constantly exposed to reality-shaping propaganda.
In some cases, I don’t even have to imagine. I can just remember what they were like before.
I think that exercise matters for a variety of reasons principle and practical, but the foremost is that it’s the only antidote and inoculant we know.
Some political parties learned the wrong thing
I’ll never forget someone in my immediate family calling me a fascist to another member of my family because I attended BLM protests.
There was no irony, they really think people who simply believe that black lives have value are fascists.
I don’t even have words to try to pick this one apart. This is what we (the sane people with empathy) are up against.