Can anyone in academia give an example of racism in this country? Three cops in 2020, shooting a suspect who refused to put the gun down, or a cop being punched by someone who outweighed him by a 100lbs going for the cop's gun doesn't count.
Asking people in the gym to change the ghetto cRap music with lyrics saying n__ this and n__ that, doesn't count as racism either.
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Do you really think you would have to go all the way to a college professor just to get an example of racism?
Also, it's trivial to "refute" an opponents argument if you get to define what all of his terms mean. All you would be accomplishing is an exercise in intellectual dishonesty.
Via the principle of explosion, if you are allowed to contradict your opponent at whim, then you could literally "prove" anything you wanted, meaning that any such argument would be inherently absurd and meaningless.
In academia? Try anyone that follows current events.
In Kenosha the black residents have no business walking the street after dark but a white non-resident who literally came out for the express purpose of breaking multiple laws can walk past police unchallenged after curfew with an assault rifle he could not legally possess... Oh, and after shooting several people who were then denounced as a pack of animals because they "attacked" a man shooting up the neighbourhood. Rittenhouse even absent-mindedly adjusted his rifle - his hand touched his weapon - right in front of the cops which would normally get someone reduced to a smoking lump of meat. Instead they told him to run along home (which again was not in Kenosha or anywhere else in the state) and I should not have to note even in the case of presumed self-defense this is not something police are supposed to do after a shooting. Yet they do it consistently when the body on the ground is black and the person holding the gun isn't. American police are more diligent with the followup procedure and paperwork after an animal attack.
And let's be honest, (assuming that doesn't cause your tongue to combust,) inside of a year something just as blatant will be the new outrage eclipsing the last that you'll pretend isn't a continuing pattern. Much like a certain shooting in an Alabama mall where dozens of panicked white people running around pointing guns at each other were fine but the one black guy was shot dead on sight and publicly declared the perpetrator within seconds and without even a cursory confirmation of the facts only for it to come out in the following minutes the actual shooter was long gone which didn't even soften the parade of vilification for the dead man. Or the shooting of protesters literally outside the front doors of a Minneapolis police station with police that had advanced warning and no inclination to pursue the shooters, one of whom turned himself in out of sheer disbelief. Or the shooting of a boy with Skittles before that, prompting a sham trial where self defense laws were sliced apart and pieced back together like a letter from a serial killer to acquit a man with no legal grounds to claim self-defense but the victim's right to self-defense or even habeas corpus were not mentioned even in passing. A crime was not established before the presumption of guilt upon which the shooter's entire defense hinged was declared which was unconstitutional, much like the pointedly undersized jury.
Event after event after event all playing out the same.
If I pull a gun on you the minute you walk into a barber shop I'm a criminal threatening someone. If I do the same thing to a black person it would readily be accepted that I don't know what they're up to and have that right. In the former situation you would be considered to have the right to self defense. In the latter any act whatsoever including standing still or fleeing is interpreted as aggressive and thus justification for a lethal response and of course pulling the gun in the first place. And if it doesn't end in death only you would be entitled to any redress from legal recourse to asking for a personal apology, black people are expected to just get over it if not apologize to the person with the gun. Anything else is getting uppity.
In your assertion alone you highlight the long standing central problem that no grievance from a black person is ever allowed to be considered legitimate. That if they have any problem at all they must be racist troublemakers and even if the issue had merit you think the "gift" of having rights on paper means they can't complain about them being violated daily in practice and they must actively repay not being gunned down in the streets. Even when they ARE being gunned down in the street and in their own beds. It isn't legally mandated that this must happen which seems to be your ludicrous standard, but when it is aggressively excused and constantly reframed to convince the public the mere presence of black people in the area is a threat in absolute terms and justifies aggression by default in ways that would violate their rights when the roles are reversed there doesn't seem to be much of a difference.
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