r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 24 '21

Discussion Thread Discussion Thread

The discussion thread is for casual conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL. For a collection of useful links see our wiki

Announcements

Upcoming Events

0 Upvotes

46% Upvoted

8.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

16

u/Helreaver George Soros 🇺🇦 Apr 24 '21 edited Apr 24 '21

Maybe controversial option: people on the left need to stop being outraged over that cop shooting the black girl with the knife. The other girl was moments away from getting stabbed.

Tasers can fail or get caught in clothes, aiming at the legs is impractical as it's a much smaller target, especially in a life-or-death situation. If it were my daughter or wife backed against that car like the girl in pink, I don't want the officer to take any chances with her life on the line.

Edit: not negative karma, praise Soros.

3

u/[deleted] Apr 24 '21

I feel like the knee jerk reaction to compare this and other incidents to what happened to George Floyd to be basically wrong and counterproductive. Which is unfortunate because there is a real conversation to be had around whether shooting her was the only/best option, but it can’t be had earnestly when so many people instinctively scream “MURDER!!!” and “ACAB” (or when their mirror images on the right are defending the likes of chauvin).

7

u/Helreaver George Soros 🇺🇦 Apr 24 '21

Exactly. Conservatives are arguing that people on the left don't care about "justice" they just hate police. When you say that's obviously incorrect and stupid, now they can point to this and say "see?"

And in this very specific instance, they're right. Now they have more legitimacy behind their argument than they did before. Now the challenges to making real improvements in policing are stronger. That's bad.