06-03-2020, 08:18 AM
(06-03-2020, 12:12 AM)Dill Wrote: Just a quick note on this one, Hollo.
Terms like "inhumanity," "overboarding [sic?] hatred," and "affinity to violence" can have some specificity and a minimal usefulness to describe social effects, but they are really useless for causal analysis.
They don't explain phenomena; they are they are phenomena in need of explanation.
OK, so I used useless terms. Yeah, you're right. I messed that paragraph up badly.
- I don't think racism, or the history of racism, is the sole explanation for what's happening in instances like those. Eg. our own police has some racists within their ranks, that state so openly and hate immigrants with a passion. Open problem. Still they never kill an immigrant on open street.
Also, we do have almost no instances of school shootings or shootings in general. Also, way less violent crimes. There's a certain american readiness to violence that is unmatched in other western countries, that is uniquely US, but not necessarily uniquely racist in nature. As with this cop(s), that were willing to go over the tipping point and just follow those impulses of, yeah whatever, hatred and inhumanity or whatever you want to call it. Why are so many willing to go over that tipping point.
This is just kind of a question/observation though. I have no real explanation. I just think racism isn't the sole explanation. Many would blame guns, but I think that's short-sighted too. As is blaming Trump. Which is why I start using useless terms, for I don't know the answer to that. "Culture of violence", yeah that don't mean much either. I just find no better way to put it.
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