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People unfamiliar with human interaction shall be advised that the following is a "rant".
The usual rules about picking small loose threads out of rants apply.
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Terxpahseyton's signature features Jan Böhmermann's "Ich hab Polizei".
The key line of the last stanza roughly translates to: they "have lit up 7 people last year".
The number is correct (for 2014). And he uses it, because it's supposedly bad...mule. Seven is supposed to be
a lot.
Let's have a table here.
p for getting killed by the cops (per million)|
asian americans US| ~1
non-hispanic white US|~3
hispanic / latino US|~3
african american US|~7
men US|~7
native american US|~10
non-hispanic white women US|0.41
FRG (at large)|0.08
Points to note:
1) A black person of random gender is roughly as likely to be killed in the US as a man of random ethnicity.
This is significant, because the "conservative" justification for the former is exactly the same as the smarmy liberal justification for the latter.
2) The white supremacy is quite bad at killing hispanics. You know, because the racist President campaigned on building a Great Wall around Philadelphia.
3) I, as a 36 year old man with long hair and a brando style leather jacket that looks like it's been to hell am less likely to be killed by the cops than Amanda Marcotte.
Merely by vritue of living in another country.
So, now would be the point where you field bogus liberal coastal American arguments. Let me preempt them.
We
do have minorities. We
do have crime. We
do have poverty. We
do have urban hellscapes with syringes in the playground sandbox. We
do have racist police. We
do have guns.
Everybody in the developed world does. Well, with the possible exception of Monaco and Singapore.
Actually i can demonstrate to you how racist our cops may probably be and that the idea of them killing people is so foreign to us that we would push the idea of taunting cops on teenagers.
I can do it in a single ad:
So before you implicitly endorse the propaganda of a group awash in rather dubious elements i suggest you get your story straight.
A few pointers:
#1: You think
this is the flag of American racism.
You know, the flag of the Dawes Act, the Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese internment, and 8 decades of slavery.
No? Oh right. That's the other one.
But Americans like the other one, don't they? Heritage not Hate, and all that?
#2: Liberal Americans are obsessed with how the head of the EPA used to sue the EPA.
But 3 years ago the story of him torturing a black man to death lasted all of 3 days.
#3: Liberal America has
useless pricks boasting about how you will have a new 20$ bill, while misrepresenting other countries.
Yet, i got to use fully gender-equal paper money my entire youth, until someone had the dumb idea to replace it with stupid bridges.
And some inner city girl in the US will still buy her first pack of gum with the face of a slaveholder President.
#4: The US are the only highly developed country where primary and secondary schools for the urban poor look and operate like juvenile detention facilities.
Meanwhile US government is concerned with how white women at elite residential campuses are going to pay for birth control - a burden that most of the Sanders Countries file under "how to adult".
#5: I can't tell you what would happen if we bombed a wedding in some far away country. I can tell you that when we erroneously call for a US air strike in a far away country our parlament goes bananas for a month while the whole thing virtually doesn't make US news.
So here i am. Ignorant as i am. With the suspicion that US political culture has a massive problem with economic class and doesn't value life in general all that much.
You know,
all of it.
But sure, denouncing politically unsavvy people who have the temerity to claim "all lives matter" - because that's oh-so-dangerous "code" - will be very helpfull, too.
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