[ SECRET POST #3041 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3041 ⌋

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Comments

Re: The stupid question thread

[(Anonymous)]

Because this is about racism and a system that privileges white people and disadvantages black people. But it is also true that, in the words of someone I heard recently, that when black people become police officers they "drink the kool-aid." And this is as much about problems police culture and police violence as it is racism. But the negative aspects of police culture are pointed towards African Americans at a much higher percentage.

Re: The stupid question thread

[morieris]

Thank you Anon.

Re: The stupid question thread

[(Anonymous)]

I would disagree that "when black people become police officers they "drink the kool-aid."" The thing is, a lot of racist outcomes in police forces isn't a result of police treating black people badly because the officers were already racist people prior to becoming police officers.

It's a result of The Police (as an aggregate force) treating disadvantaged people badly because that's how the system of incentives is set up in law enforcement, and because most of these are black, becoming more and more racist over time because humans are pattern-seeking creatures -- i.e., observations of patterns > reasons for the patterns. The subconscious memory of dealing with lots of black criminals associated with results that are good for the police tends to override any intellectual understanding of the sociological/political/psychological reasons that explain what they are seeing.

This is, as far as logical reasoning is concerned, no different than any other stupid and narrow-minded employee confusing patterns with reasons, they just have a lot more severe consequences than a project manager misunderstanding a marketing analysis report, and those in charge of training/education don't treat it seriously enough.

Re: The stupid question thread

[(Anonymous)]

My suspicion is that it is simultaneously classist in the way that you describe, and also racist. These are not mutually exclusive categories.