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View submission: i feel totally cynical about what's happening right now
I think portraying people that are struggling to feel excited about this moment as “bad guys” is a way of building a straw man that’s easy to write off on moral grounds in order to avoid an honest conversation about the complexity of this moment
Comment by [deleted] at 26/06/2020 at 18:23 UTC
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and ignoring everything that poster said is what?
Comment by [deleted] at 27/06/2020 at 14:20 UTC
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no one's "bad" for feeling cynical about this moment... but like would keith ellison even be the prosecutor in the chauvin et al case if people hadn't burned down the precinct? given that a cop has never been convicted for murdering a black man in minnesota, i think not. it is not complicated for me personally to celebrate moments like those, but it's not an unmitigated victory as a whole either. there's still a community in shambles and a man who lost his life and it's not clear how disbanding will go