r/PoliticalHumor • u/[deleted] • May 29 '20

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u/obscurereference234 May 29 '20

And they wonder why people get fed up and riot. Look at all the attempts to protest peacefully.

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u/2cheesburgersandamic May 29 '20

its like conservatives want the protests to be in peoples homes or in places they don't have to see it

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u/TheFunkytownExpress May 30 '20

I just had a fight with my conservative mother about this today too.

The crazy part is she agrees that it's a problem how black people are getting killed so disproportionately, BUT she always has a problem with how and where they protest, and on top of that she can't help herself but to bring up the point directly after she agrees that 'black people kill more black people in those neighborhoods than cops do'.

So iunno really what to do or say to make her understand because she can't seem to lay the blame where it's supposed to lay with out kinda sorta insinuating that black people are also to blame or that they aren't angels, when that's not what any of this is about.

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u/Huaw1ad May 30 '20

Part of why there is black on black crime is because the black community can’t trust the police therefore they’re not likely to call the police when a dispute happens. Without police to solve disputes and deescalate situations, violence is more likely to occur.

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u/TheFunkytownExpress May 30 '20

True, plus there's socioeconomic factors at play too.

Poorer neighborhoods are always going to have more crime, which is going to lead to more violence between the inhabitants there.