There’s a real fuzzy line between confronting people with evidence of our brutality and just normalizing that brutality
Also, I feel like on this network more than others you’re just showing this to people who are already fully aware that horrific racist violence like this has happened and is happening
Black people’s lives are treated with less sanctity and respect than white people’s. Images of violence done to black bodies is normalized and spread to justify further violence and spread fear. I’m not “trying to look away”, I’m trying to denormalize the murder of a black child.
If this was a white child, their face would be blurred. This moment of fear and evil would be kept away from the public out of respect for the family. Their family wouldn’t need to fear stumbling across the photo of their last moment just so the public can learn about their dark society.
Yes, we need to confront our dirty secrets, but that doesn’t conflict with the desire to respect the victims of brutality.
Yeah, the idea that people I’ve never met who did something I don’t agree with decades before I was born define me as a person because we’re from the same country is…weird.
I disagree entirely. You can only say I didn’t have anything to do with it if you learn from it as a culture and moved on. We still do this. We execute innocent people all the time. We didn’t learn from it. We kept doing. It’s actively going on. It’s not something in the past we can dissociate ourselves with. This isn’t something you didn’t have anything to do with, this is something you still have something to do with. We all do.
I’m not sure we should be allowed to look away from our past and transgressions. You’re uncomfortable. That child is dead.
There’s a real fuzzy line between confronting people with evidence of our brutality and just normalizing that brutality
Also, I feel like on this network more than others you’re just showing this to people who are already fully aware that horrific racist violence like this has happened and is happening
Black people’s lives are treated with less sanctity and respect than white people’s. Images of violence done to black bodies is normalized and spread to justify further violence and spread fear. I’m not “trying to look away”, I’m trying to denormalize the murder of a black child.
If this was a white child, their face would be blurred. This moment of fear and evil would be kept away from the public out of respect for the family. Their family wouldn’t need to fear stumbling across the photo of their last moment just so the public can learn about their dark society.
Yes, we need to confront our dirty secrets, but that doesn’t conflict with the desire to respect the victims of brutality.
Big Westboro Baptist energy tho.
The title is enough. It should be NSFW.
There’s also no “we”. Everyone involved in that is long, long dead. I didn’t have anything to do with it.
Yeah, the idea that people I’ve never met who did something I don’t agree with decades before I was born define me as a person because we’re from the same country is…weird.
I disagree entirely. You can only say I didn’t have anything to do with it if you learn from it as a culture and moved on. We still do this. We execute innocent people all the time. We didn’t learn from it. We kept doing. It’s actively going on. It’s not something in the past we can dissociate ourselves with. This isn’t something you didn’t have anything to do with, this is something you still have something to do with. We all do.
I support this a clockwork orange type shit