Steve QJ
Feb 15, 2023

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No, you're not far off at all. In fact, this is demonstrably true. I'm not suggesting that black people have some kind of criminality gene. 😅

I'm saying, as I said elsewhere recently, that if you want to solve a problem, you have to look at the whole of it. Pointing out that black people are disproportionately the victims of police brutality without acknowledging the factors that contribute to that disparity doesn't get you any close to solving it.

I'm not denying that there's racism within the police force. I'm just saying that treating police brutality as a race-neutral issue and stopping pretending that the only explanation for the disparity in police brutality against black people is racism, would almost certainly be a more effective way of addressing the problem.

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Steve QJ
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