I call murderers degenerate thugs because they are.
No, you're calling Black murderers degenerate thugs.
Betcha don't call police officers that when they kill people on behalf of the white supremacist state.
I think he's protesting the inclusion of "degenerate" in that description moreso than the thug part, since it suggests a genetic influence on behavior (a favored excuse among racist thought).
Thug is still racist, but it's not literally-Nazi-racial-theory racist like "degenerate" is. Degenerate is an outright declaration of the sub-humanity of the other person.
I'm not blaming the victim, I'm blaming people like you for patronizing "insert-non-white-male-straight-category-of-people-here" for your own sense of self-righteousness while doing nothing to help them or anyone else & simply contributing to divisiveness in our society. Want to help people? Start treating them as individuals & listening to their individual problems rather than lumping them into little boxes to feed your bloated ego. The black/gay/whathaveyou community doesn't want or need you to be all hypersenstive on their behalf.
I'd take the time to refute this, but since it's so divorced from reality as to be meaningless, I'll suffice to say that you're willful ignorance does far more to hurt us than any imaginable damage that might come from your non-existent praxis you're attributed to us.
I understand that, but does that require lazy thinking? Can you not say something like 'terrorism can be justified in a good cause', or even 'well-intentioned people have done evil in the past, but that shouldn't blacken the name of their ideals', rather than flip-flopping between ideas on things like how reliable you consider the justice system, or how far groups and institutions should be held accountable for the actions of their members?
There's no flip-flopping. Justice is never impartial; the law is a superstructural expression of actually-existing material relations. It is always biased in favor of the class that rules the state. I'm against capitalist justice because I'm against the capitalist state. If their conception of justice can, at times, be twisted to help oppressed peoples, then that's great and we'll do it. But I'm not going to play to a false sense of impartiality.
The police, being instruments of state oppression, are necessarily the enemy of the oppressed. In the context of the United States, where oppressed nationalities are formed into internal colonies, the police appear not merely as enforcers of the law, but as
an occupying army. They behave as such; the BPP were among the first to respond in kind (and to inspire many others to do the same), which is why such opprobrium is heaped upon them [see the racist comments above in this thread] and the state
went to such lengths to
destroy them.
