There’s an undeniable racial component, yeah, but there’s also the very real fact that those suffering past abuses were broadly in a different category from the majority of ordinary (white and white passing) American citizens, creating the illusion that they themselves were safe, or could choose to be safe by keeping their heads down.
As soon as the victim is in a position that you yourself could easily find yourself in (like dropping your kid off at school in a residential area), and you can imagine that you might make the same choices (like trying to leave a dangerous situation safely), your own safety is under direct threat.
A lot of people were sad, angry and outraged before, but now they’re scared.
Yeah, acknowledging the racial component is fine, but the OP frames it in a much more productive way than @[email protected].
I have personally given the speech about how your white skin won’t save you from the ICE thugs. They’re not checking documentation. There’s no judge. And if they don’t care about proof of citizenship, why do you think they’d give a fuck about the color of your skin? That’s not much of a shield.
But this one is different, and it’s not just race. “Could easily find yourself in” hits the nail on the head. It’s not just that she’s white; it’s that you can tell what she was doing. She was turning around to leave, allowed traffic to go in front of her first, and then allowed the truck to pass before she went, not knowing the unmarked truck was ICE.
She wasn’t on the front line of a protest. She wasn’t living in a barely habitable apartment complex struggling to scrape by. We should, and often do empathize with those people as well, but they’re not as relatable.
Race might be a good chunk of why it’s so easy to empathize, but it’s not the only reason. Renee Good’s crime was turning down the wrong street.
Blame the media for their conservative/racist leanings. I hadn’t heard much if anything about other similar cases until this happened. And I sure hadn’t seen a video of those incidents.
The outcry is still limited because the woman shot appears to be in a gay relationship (a lady declaring herself as her wife was on scene at the murder).
So most conservatives are still unable to empathize nor see this as ‘one of their clan’ at risk, even though it was a white person.
It’ll take a MAGA-hat-wearing white guy being shot by ICE before they start to worry about the new SS.
Just wait until they shoot a white conservative man in the face. Then there will be riots. Women aren’t as important, they are disposable. White women might be “higher up on the chain” but they’re still women therefore unimportant. Lol if I wasn’t scared enough before I’m 1000% more scared now. She is me, I am her. We’re fucked.
Note: I do not believe white people are superior in any way. I recognize white privilege and I do try to use my privilege for good and to help the less fortunate/less privileged. I just know how these low life fuckers think.
Why would there be? Conservatives get shot by the police all the time and we just laugh at them. People say you’ll care when it’s in your neighborhood. Well they’re in the suburbs now and we still have plenty of people claiming that anyone attacked by federal agents is an agitator.
The last big white riot we had was Jan. 6 so I wouldn’t really be banking massive social position change on conservatives getting upset at other conservatives.
I looked at it this way: the biggest outcry against ICE has been now that a white woman has been killed by them.
Difference here is, this, they can manipulate into a reason to close the polls.
There’s an undeniable racial component, yeah, but there’s also the very real fact that those suffering past abuses were broadly in a different category from the majority of ordinary (white and white passing) American citizens, creating the illusion that they themselves were safe, or could choose to be safe by keeping their heads down.
As soon as the victim is in a position that you yourself could easily find yourself in (like dropping your kid off at school in a residential area), and you can imagine that you might make the same choices (like trying to leave a dangerous situation safely), your own safety is under direct threat.
A lot of people were sad, angry and outraged before, but now they’re scared.
Yeah, acknowledging the racial component is fine, but the OP frames it in a much more productive way than @[email protected].
I have personally given the speech about how your white skin won’t save you from the ICE thugs. They’re not checking documentation. There’s no judge. And if they don’t care about proof of citizenship, why do you think they’d give a fuck about the color of your skin? That’s not much of a shield.
But this one is different, and it’s not just race. “Could easily find yourself in” hits the nail on the head. It’s not just that she’s white; it’s that you can tell what she was doing. She was turning around to leave, allowed traffic to go in front of her first, and then allowed the truck to pass before she went, not knowing the unmarked truck was ICE.
She wasn’t on the front line of a protest. She wasn’t living in a barely habitable apartment complex struggling to scrape by. We should, and often do empathize with those people as well, but they’re not as relatable.
Race might be a good chunk of why it’s so easy to empathize, but it’s not the only reason. Renee Good’s crime was turning down the wrong street.
And often after fear, comes rage.
Blame the media for their conservative/racist leanings. I hadn’t heard much if anything about other similar cases until this happened. And I sure hadn’t seen a video of those incidents.
The outcry is still limited because the woman shot appears to be in a gay relationship (a lady declaring herself as her wife was on scene at the murder).
So most conservatives are still unable to empathize nor see this as ‘one of their clan’ at risk, even though it was a white person.
It’ll take a MAGA-hat-wearing white guy being shot by ICE before they start to worry about the new SS.
imgine seing your spouse executed by the police
if it happens to me i’m throating a cop
For real, if this happened to me, I would hunt and kill ICE agents for the rest of my days. Which probably wouldn’t be long
I uh…I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Most people won’t be affected until it’s an old boomer on an electric scooter
Just wait until they shoot a white conservative man in the face. Then there will be riots. Women aren’t as important, they are disposable. White women might be “higher up on the chain” but they’re still women therefore unimportant. Lol if I wasn’t scared enough before I’m 1000% more scared now. She is me, I am her. We’re fucked.
Note: I do not believe white people are superior in any way. I recognize white privilege and I do try to use my privilege for good and to help the less fortunate/less privileged. I just know how these low life fuckers think.
Like Charlie Kirk outrage?
I don’t condone any shooting or terrorist acts, but I wish there was half as much outrage for school shootings.
Why would there be? Conservatives get shot by the police all the time and we just laugh at them. People say you’ll care when it’s in your neighborhood. Well they’re in the suburbs now and we still have plenty of people claiming that anyone attacked by federal agents is an agitator.
The last big white riot we had was Jan. 6 so I wouldn’t really be banking massive social position change on conservatives getting upset at other conservatives.
Are they humanly capable of emotions, which would include crying?