I've been thinking: are the police militarised?

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You bring up civil rights acts like it's news to me. You're so naive about this it's irrational, to the point of a fault. You have not once acknowledged that racial oppression is an issue. NEVER!

Does it really have to be acknowledged? I disagree with the ways that racism is portrayed in the media, and that was the point. The media portrays violence against minorities, because that's the type of stuff that fuels anger. They portray excessive police violence against minorities, and perhaps all of it's accurate to an extent, but televised media portrays controversial things in order to gain ratings. They don't care if they're bending the truth or causing people to believe exaggerations of actual situations, because they're profiting off of it.

These issues seem to be not with militarization of the police, but a different subject entirely. We can start a thread about racial biases and the media, but that would be a discussion for another time.

Not only that, I did acknowledge that racial oppression is an issue, though my stance on that is a bit different from yours. Your stance places minorities in the role of the victim, but everybody is a victim of racial bias, and that would be a good issue for this country to address.

You claim to be a victim of it, but no one knows who or what you are.

I'm a human. The color of my skin is irrelevant. Everybody is a victim of racism.

The most you've allowed is a few comments about racism toward Caucasians...

Yes, because racism towards white people has never been properly addressed. If it is addressed, typically you're classified as a racist for doing so, which is why nobody goes there. That leads into another interesting tidbit, unrelated to anything being addressed in this thread. Black people in America have black pride. They even have a month for it. But if you're white, and you have white pride, you're a supremacist. This country is full of double standards.

Which leads back into the militarization of police. People are being patronized to no extent. Whether the militarization of police is simply due to racially motivated anger sparking civil unrest, and the police responding by using more force, or people in general just becoming more angry, causing more violence, especially in urban areas. The police respond to violence by implementing more force. The media keeps racism alive and well in the minds of everybody. Everybody is essentially programmed to hate people that are different. That sparks racially motivated criminal activity. Racism itself isn't the problem, it's the people controlling social issues.