I'm starting to get tired of the hypocrisy and double standards that permeate the discourse about race on Hubski, so I'm taking a bolder approach. Most of the people who claim to be for equality are actually anti-white racists, but they'll deny this, because by their own definition of racism, you can't be racist against white people. I want to expose their bigotry. "Why the disparity in reactions?" That's precisely the kind of question that I want people to ask themselves when they notice how differently black-on-white crimes are received compared to white-on-black.
Bad people doing bad things is... bad. Regardless of race. This was a bad thing and the people who did it should be punished. But I can't help but get the sense that you think this incident is indicative of some greater, terrible injustice. And the evidence doesn't support that.
I only speak for myself and I'm sure others see recent outrage differently. Police should be held to a higher standard than others, instead they are held to a lower standard. Police have killed minorities with relative impunity for as long as this nation has had police. There is a problem with the way police treat minorities, it's backed up statistically. I think the outrage is well deserved and way over due. It's a good cause for disparity of outrage. There are many instances of police treating White people in an underhanded and murderous manner, it's also a cause for outrage. If minorities were only treated as bad as whites are treated by the justice system it would go a long way toward establishing a more perfect union. Criminals should be treated as criminals, it doesn't really matter what their race or motivation is as far as the governmental response to their crime. People who hold positions of public trust should face civil rights charges when they single out people on the basis of their race. Any decent person should make racist face scorn and shame shame for their their disgusting positions. I don't think you are a racist, I think you are just a person who doesn't realize the privilege you experience and any wiff that your privileged might be impinge upon threatens you greatly. It's unfortunate because you don't even get to enjoy the privileges you receive, because you are so filled with suspicion and fear. It must suck to feel so threatened. I don't know if what I said makes me some kind of anti-white racist in your book but it's a position I'm more than willing to stand by.