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One of my really big issues with white lefties is the white guilt thing. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of white people as well as black people trying to shut down conversations they don't want to have with 'white privilege' accusations. The difference between the right and left is in who they hate. The right hates non-whites and the left hates whites. I used to say the right hates women and the left hates men, but I'm coming to realize the left has just been better at hiding its misogyny, or maybe I was just blind to it. 'Bernie bros' and the transactivists are lifting the blinders from my eyes. Am I getting 'woke' to left misogyny? LOL.

(One of my censored articles on Medium before I got kicked off was "White People Who Hate White People Are Racist". Vocal.media a few months later approved it without any fuss.)

The problem with the police, as the world is slowly getting woke to :) is police brutality overall, black people only being a slice of it. Now that we know the number of unarmed black men killed by police in America every year is in the very low double digits, and the number of unarmed white men killed always a few bodies higher (literally, like <10), it looks like BLM formed to save, like, two dozen black lives a year when thousands more are taken every bit as unjustly by others, mostly other black men or POC. (Interestingly, BLM Memphis was rather silent about Tyre Nichols in the days after his death on Twitter. I looked.)

Black people are arsed about police brutality (which affects them poorly even when they're not murdered) because it affects *them*. This isn't really racist so much as human. If the media focused more on white murders by cops, white people would get arsed more. And I try to get women arsed more by pointing out cops have a 40% higher DV rate than other professions, in fact I wrote about it recently.

From what I've been reading, and this includes the Memphis PD, many police departments are now lowering their standards to recruit new police officers because so many have retired or just left in the wake of so much anti-police hate (part deserved, part not). They'll take anyone with a pulse, and they don't bother too much about prior records. It'll be interesting to see where these five bozos came from.

So the problem may now be shitty humans as cops, as well as the historical racism, misogyny, homophobia, and violent right-wing leanings of many. But for sure the more recent militarization of the police, which could morph into a more police-like state, especially with violent crime spiralling everywhere (including historically safe Toronto, where I now carry a can of hair spray in my coat pocket with my hand on it in case anyone pulls anything.)

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