Comment by ImPostingOnHN
4 days ago
> If you asked 100 people on the street if that letter constitutes a threat, I believe that 5-10% would say yes, so sending something like that is definitely asking for trouble
Something is "asking for trouble" if a tiny minority think it is? I think not. That would be extreme minority rule, not democracy.
If you ask 100 reasonable people if that letter constitutes a threat, and 90-95% say "no", then the remaining 5-10% should accept that their opinions are unreasonable, and defer to reasonable people, and drop the matter.
Black people constitute 13% of the US. Should opinions exclusive to black communities be ignored and dismissed as unreasonable?
Could you be more specific? Which opinions about what could cause trouble, held exclusively by black people, are you referring to?
Do I need to be "specific"?
You made the general claim. I'm pointing out that the general claim when applied to a different minority population suddenly does not sound as reasonable, and could easily cause distress and discussions of persecution and discrimination.
Pivoting to wanting to exceptionally examine an exact opinion for this particular minority is simply Special Pleading. The point stands that, no, people should not be expected to shut up and "defer to reasonable people" just because their opinions and interests are in the minority.
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Minorities often seek to engage in witch hunts. Opinions should never matter when it comes to law enforcement. The facts and logic should. The fact is that even if a minority assert the email to be a threat, upon probing there is no way they can explain why or how it is threat.
An objective analysis should be sought. You can read one by cgpt in its shared conversation ID 6a46a4f2-82fc-83ea-89bf-de6e6108070c which clearly determines it is not a threat.
> Minorities often seek to engage in witch hunts.
Some minorities sometimes seek to engage in witch hunts. Many others either don't care to waste energy on such pettiness, or simply have better things to do with their time. To be fair, there's a lot of messed up "Karen-types" among the non-minority groups that engage in witch hunting of various kinds as well, so... Yeah. Some humans are just messed up I guess...
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