Comment by mikkupikku
2 days ago
Travel through rural America sometime. The working class of America are fairly poor but still overwhelmingly support the police.
2 days ago
Travel through rural America sometime. The working class of America are fairly poor but still overwhelmingly support the police.
You know you don’t have to say it in so many words, “rural working class America” = poor white people. Of course they love the racist police (who used to catch slaves and enforce Jim Crow). And I say that as someone who grew up in rural America. I just happen to have read a few history books.
Half the people I work with in rural PA aren't white, you're just showing off your own racial bias with such an assumption. They still overwhelmingly support the police.
Thanks for the anecdote. Now let’s look at the numbers, where you will see a strong correlation between both income AND race and support for the police: https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/policing-america-underst...
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