@MaierAmsden @DeanObeidallah The point in all caps is the point you keep talking around. It's NOT multiple factors. If Penny were black and killed a white homeless man, they'd be mute, and you admitted that. There literally is no other "nuance" you need to add, but you wanna say things like if it were a quiet, black middle-class man it'd be different (which BTW is an affront to every quiet, black, middle-class man who's been Karen'd or harassed by police). Their response is due to race. Period.

@MaierAmsden @DeanObeidallah You keep missing the point (which is pretty clear in Dean's post) and trying to muddy the waters, but that's probably intentional. RACE IS THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE CURRENTLY DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING.

@MaierAmsden @DeanObeidallah Again, the OVERWHELMING factor is race. You can talk about elitism, fascism and whatever else, but if the races were reversed, they wouldn't call a black veteran that killed a white homeless man a "Good Samaritan" and fundraise for him. They just wouldn't. But feel free to introduce all the nuance you want.

@MaierAmsden @DeanObeidallah Guess what? Sometimes things really are that simple. DeSantis and other conservatives villainizing the DA and fundraising to support a vigilante who killed someone on a subway is all about race. Their support of Rittenhouse was all about race. You don't have to introduce nuance just for the sake of introducing it. It is what it is.

@MaierAmsden @DeanObeidallah Race is the overwhelming factor in both of these. Being "scary" is not a capital crime. And driving to a well-lit area in the aftermath of multiple high-profile police beatings of black men is not being "uncooperative". Privilege is exactly what you exuded - being able to minimize the outsized influence of race because stuff like that likely will never happen to you. I and millions of other people of color in this country unfortunately don't have that privilege.

@MaierAmsden @DeanObeidallah The privilege of being white, smh. Black always = scary and uncooperative. There literally are dozens of studies about white people's perception about the increased dangerousness of someone when they are black. Please do some research before making knee-jerk dismissals of the overwhelming impact of race on people's actions in this country.

@MaierAmsden @DeanObeidallah Correction: Being WHITE military causes conservatives to stand and salute. They said absolutely nothing when the black military officer was pulled over and pepper sprayed by police.

@atrupar That was devastating - love it!