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Originally Posted by Acajack
Lots of sympathy or copy-cat or us-too protests going on in other countries, including Canada.
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The police brutality caught on film is egregious and really needs to be punished harshly. Police need to be held to a higher standard than average citizens, not a lower standard. It makes sense for people to protest it, particularly when they feel like nothing is being accomplished through official channels.
However I am not sure it is productive to build up narratives around group culpability or how that's the "tip of the iceberg" or argue that all of the behaviour is connected (e.g. the old lady glaring at you in Canada makes the police officer kill somebody in Minneapolis). Most of those claims are not falsifiable; there is no way to decide that those issues are ever fixed and they can fuel paranoia.
The representation issues are tricky too, e.g. the desire to have multiple black people in a meeting (discussed in the article). Canada's about 3.5% black. If you choose 10 people at random in Canada, the probability of picking 0 black individuals in it is 70%. That's just math.
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