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⌈ Secret Post #3474 ⌋

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[Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap]

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02. http://i.imgur.com/8Lfgcp8.jpg
[A Game of Thrones, Tyene Sand; link because OP warned for nudity]

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[Independence Day]

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[Queen at Arms]

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05. [repeat]

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06. [WARNING for underage/shota]

[Boku no Pico]

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07. [SPOILERS for Game of Thrones]

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08. [WARNING for incest]
[WARNING for rape]

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09. [WARNING for gore, torture]

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The problem of policing in America has a massive racial aspect. Ignoring that is ignoring reality. Of course we're sort of at the point where there are too many tragedies coming too fast to distinguish, but making that point in the context of the Castile and Sterling killings is entirely correct.

You know, there's a big difference between being correct and being human.

I don't think it's inhuman to be responding particularly to one facet of the enormous garbage ball of tragedies from the last few days. There are more things to feel terrible about than there are feelings.

OK. I do.

Would you mind expanding on why?

If you're ONLY focusing on black people's pain and loss -OR- if you're ONLY focusing on white people's pain and loss, then, to me, it looks like you're more concerned with race than with the fact that seven innocent people were just senselessly, brutally, unjustly killed in our country. These tragedies are not distinct. They're all connected by the same thing. So it seems disingenuous to me to say, "Oh, it's just that the tragedies are coming too quickly to process them all."

They are distinct tragedies. One is acute one is chronic. It's not just violence, it's maniac terrorists murdering police officers on the one hand, and the state continually shooting black people for no reason on the other. The pain that people are placed in is the same, the death is the same, but the events and the conditions that led to them are not the same. Their causes are not the same.

I would also say that probably 99% of people in this country, including the vast majority of BLM activists, think the killing of the police officers was evil and senseless and tragic. If you think people are minimizing their deaths, you're looking for something that doesn't exist.

I do think Sparrow's comment was minimizing their deaths since she expressed no concern for anyone who wasn't black or "non-white".

And I do think the causes are the same: this country has severe issues with race, and it's an endless cycle of suspicion and violence that's probably never going to end. Especially with all the divisive rhetoric on both sides.

I don't think it minimized them, I think it didn't address them, and that's not the same thing.

And, I mean, yes, in the broad sense, both events are part of the broader American horror story of race, but they're still distinct parts of that problem with distinct causes and reactions. It doesn't make sense to just blur them together like that.

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