(05-28-2020, 11:32 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(05-28-2020, 10:41 AM)JagJohn Wrote: Empathy is defined in the dictionary as "the ability to understand and share the feelings of others". It is literally all about emotion.

We could go down the route of each sharing statistics that we feel validate our claims, and attacking each other over right wing hacks manipulating data or left wing biased MSM sites doing the same, but what's the point? Statistics can sing any song you want them to at the hands of a good composer.

Ultimately emotion, and the ability and willingness to actually listen to how people feel about this issue might actually help us to understand it better. Listen, read, seek out what the people who have to live with this situation have to say. I challenge you all to actually do that, and see if it might change how you see the subject in any way.

Here's an interesting video to start with, of course my liberal [BLEEP] bleeding heart has chosen a TED video presented in the form of poetry, because I'm nothing if not a cliche: 

https://www.ted.com/talks/clint_smith_ho...anguage=en

How you feel about something does not make it true or false. This isn't complicated. I feel bad for the guy, but that doesn't mean that the cop was a racist.

More evidence will come in, but we will probably never establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he was racist.
I think we already see it's more likely than not that this veteran cop negatively stereotyped the suspect as being someone who would fake being hurt, someone who needed extra punishment, didn't deserve to have his pulse checked, didn't deserve CPR, etc.  That negative stereotype, more likely than not, was due to his skin color and speech patterns.  So yeah.  Probably racist.

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