Ever notice they never call Dylann Roof, Nikolas Cruz, or Robert Aaron Long "animals" or "thugs"?

[ck4829]

So of course they'd never want to talk about WHY they never call Dylann Roof, Nikolas Cruz, or Robert Aaron Long "animals" or "thugs".

Talking about the "why" would probably be considered an application of that "critical race theory", right?

Critical Race Theory

[malaise]

1. They took one of them to Burger King for dinner after he

killed nine African-Americans in their church - they never called it a war on Christians either

[Caliman73]

3. For complete honesty. They did not take Roof to Burger King.

They did provide him with a hamburger, maybe even a Whopper. Police often offer food to people they arrest as a way of gaining rapport and getting a confession.


That said, the disparities in the way that White mass murders and Black, suspects are treated is very real and disgusting. I don't want White suspects roughed up or killed. I want Black and Brown suspects to be treated with humanity and the same deference.

I had posted something yesterday on a different topic, but with the same conflict. During Hurricane Katrina White people who took food out of grocery stores without paying were said to be scavenging for survival. Black people doing the same were called "Looters". The words and images used to describe Black and Brown people definitely creates the narrative that we are "Dangerous" with a propensity to violence.

[fescuerescue]

4. If that whopper saved a million dollar investigation

because he confessed as a result, that's good policing.

Besides. They have to feed him anyway.

That whopper is the last non-jail food he ever gets to enjoy.

[Caliman73]

7. True. However the point of the thread is the disparity in how White and Black suspects are portrayed

Again, I don't want White suspects to be called "Thugs" or whatever. I want people to stop referring to Black and Brown suspects as such.

Also, George Floyd will never eat a Whopper again, for the crime of potentially having a fake 20 dollar bill. Eric Gardner will never eat a Whopper again for selling loose cigarettes.

[malaise]

6. There was no need for rapport or a confession here

There were witnesses but you're right about the disparities

[Caliman73]

9. A confession is always desirable.

It just makes things a lot cleaner legally.

I think that we need to remember that it is the incivility with which people of color are portrayed and treated by law enforcement and the media, not that White people are treated better, that is the problem. Every suspect should be afforded decent treatment, even if that treatment is done so in order to obtain an advantage and a confession. We want the police to treat all suspects, even those accused of horrible crimes, with basic human respect.

They need to raise their level of treatment of suspects who are people of color, not lower their level of treatment for White suspects.

[people]

2. Never calling white supremacists thugs

Great point!

[needledriver]

5. I don't know who two of those people are.

I'm not going to look them up.

Starve those assholes of the attention they crave.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Well, we wouldn't want to upset the gravy train.

Implicit Bias is one thing. Confirmation Bias is another.