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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Yes, that is certainly a subject matter we're discussing. The issue is that mentioning Mcdonald's targeting black communities because they know that they can abuse the people there by exploiting the lack of proper nutritional food has actually harmed the community in a deep way, beyond something transient (or relatively singular) like Corona. However, the conversation is so hyper-focused on corona that it fails to identify that there's a bigger predator at the heart of the issue (In this case, obesity and food choice).
In the case of police brutality, there is the issue of brutality and then the laws that inspired it. The state itself bears responsibility, alongside the politicians of said state for signing them into law. The hyper-focus on brutality, though, eclipses that conversation though by allowing many of those politicians to get "Brownie Points" by instead backing the protests against police. It also makes it hard for people on either side of the isle to actually hear each other because of inflammatory comments and a habit of ignoring the experiences on the other side. Like how people just call cops bastards for reasoning as simple as "You're a cop and won't say policing is bad" without any consideration of their experiences in the force. That kind of world view is myopic though because it purposely ignores questions like "Why do cops form a silent blue wall" in favor of simple answers like "Because they're b@stards".
I dunno, you said you cared about consideration-of-circumstances when it came to crimes. I figured you'd care about...considering the circumstances behind people's perspective
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We have it, and we don't even seem to have that different of an opinion on it. I'm just willing to listen to the explanation of a cop when they're talking about their life-experiences to try to find a better middle ground behind the "good" cops who want society to keep on ticking healthily.
