Joshua HollandCT state troopers entered up to 60K fake tickets, issued to imaginary white people, to game a database designed to ferret out racial profiling. (And didn't enter real tickets issued to Black people.) One in 4 troopers were doing it. And it seems like nobody is being punished for this crime.
A Tattered Scrapbook@JoshuaHolland You know when people talk about systemic racism, and “centrists” get uncomfortable and defensive…?
This, right here, is the system, being racist, using more racism to try to hide the initial racism, and, caught, going unpunished by the racist system.
Connecticut. Not Florida. Democrat governor. Democrat senators.
How do you fix this?
Ricardo Harvin@Tattered "Just move", white people love to advise.
Aaron@ricardoharvin @Tattered And they know you'd have to move to another country to get away from it when they say it.
@hosford42 @Tattered My point is, there's no guarantee of safety *anywhere* right now because fascism and authoritarianism are spreading literally everywhere.
@ricardoharvin @Tattered I agree! Just commenting on their oh-so-pure motives.
DianeLipartito@ricardoharvin @hosford42 @Tattered I doubt this is new for CT. Just because it is a Democratic state doesn't mean anything.
@DianeLipartito @ricardoharvin @hosford42 I think it should, though, shouldn’t it?
I wanted, merely, to point out that the excuse of “the South”, or MAGA, or whatever, doesn’t work here. This is above the Mason-Dixon by a looong way. So, therefore, and unquestionably, systemic.
If the system cannot be fixed, it must be broken.
@Tattered @ricardoharvin @hosford42 Yeah, of course it should, but the idea that Democrats or states north of M-D line aren't racist or traditionally racist (esp. NE & esp. CT) is wrong. I live in MA & see it all the time. On a national level, Democratic racism has to do more w/policy or lack thereof vs. rhetoric. The Dems have their way of keeping everything the same & it is not because the Republicans won't let them change stuff. Mb you know all this. Sorry if I'm spouting out things u know.
@DianeLipartito @ricardoharvin @hosford42 Perfectly fine. It is fair and reasonable to suspect that a Brit living in Japan may not have the best handle on the US.
I think we are probably both making the same point: that any perception of racism as belonging only to specific regions of the US is very wrong.
The US is, still, a racist state.