• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    18 hours ago

    Why won’t you answer a simple question? It’s not gotcha question. I don’t have any “you saw it so you’re a hypocrite” waiting. Have you seen the footage from George Floyd killing or not? It literally shook the whole country. Did you still decide not to see it or was it important enough for you to see?

    And your poor attempts at hyperbole are… poor. I explained exactly why I think it’s important to see this specific kind of footage. Police always lies about what happened. Media tends to repeat what police said. Activist over-dramatize what happened to promote their narrative. Same thing can’t be said about plane crashes or car accidents. There’s no nuance to a car hitting a tree. I don’t have to see it live to know what happened. There’s a lot of nuance to police killings. “Resisting”, “reaching”, “threatening” can describe wildly different things. Relying on reports leaves you uninformed and being uninformed by choice makes you ignorant.