Comment by scarface_74
6 days ago
That doesn’t exactly help. Minorities have been trying to get society to wake up to police brutality since at least as far back as NWA’s “Fuck the Police” when Tipper Gore was clutching her pearls about the affect such music had on society.
It was just not until social media where minorities could get around the press and media filter.
> Minorities have been trying to get society to wake up to police brutality
And it happened, to a degree. Then it got overplayed, in part because the prigs Graham criticises were less concerned with police violence than they were with arguing online about it.
That in turn not only animated a pro-police backlash on the right, it also sapped the police/sentencing reform movement of the legitimacy it would need to survive mistakes, e.g. Chesa.
The right has been pro police since day one. There is no world where the right was going to be in favor of criminal justice or police reform until it started affecting them.
This is so well known that during the protest in 2021, there were “white shields” where White people would stand in front of Black protestors because everyone knows that police would not beat White people because there would be consequences.
https://www.blackenterprise.com/white-protesters-form-human-...
> no world where the right was going to be in favor of criminal justice or police reform until it started affecting them
Sure. That doesn’t mean it’s a given that the disinterested middle will be swayed by them.
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Here "affect" should be "effect".
You’re getting downvoted. But one of my pet peeves is when people use “jive” instead of “jibe”. Fair is fair.