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View submission: i feel totally cynical about what's happening right now
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Comment by blue_dice at 25/06/2020 at 22:11 UTC
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I don't doubt that there is a an apolitical section of the population that agrees that embedded anti-blackness and its manifestation in policing circles is an issue, but I would be hard pressed to believe that this constitutes a majority.
If you use support for the BLM as a proxy for these views then it certainly does. Polling has found that BLM now has majority support in America, which was definitely not the case before the current protests (-5 net favourability in 2017 vs +28 net favourability now).
Comment by yowlyowlhisshiss at 26/06/2020 at 09:20 UTC*
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I don't doubt that there is a an apolitical section of the population that agrees that embedded anti-blackness and its manifestation in policing circles is an issue
Yeah. That section is called the youth. As in those people who constitute the future of this country. And they are doing a hell of a job exposing the imagined "silent majority" as the paper tiger that it always was.
Marxist nerds OTOH are actively propping up that paper tiger for their precious internet points. Won't be needing them in the 2020s.