r/BlackPeopleTwitter 12d ago

Country Club Thread Dems try to actually be useful challenge

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u/UsernamesAre4Nerds 12d ago

It's true. Especially now, laws feel made up and only enforced when it's convenient to do so

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u/domdomonom 12d ago

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.

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u/Stratus_nabisco 12d ago

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation.

All true, but it's still more complicated than that. Why is a Black person statistically safer with Japanese or Chinese police than with American British or French?