Movement Conservatism and White Racial Paranoia Killed Michael Brown
"They are Also Destroying American Democracy"
*Research in sociology, political science, and psychology has revealed that those with conservative political personality types see the world in binary and simplistic terms, are intolerant of ambiguity, more afraid of social change, highly deferent to authority, and have brains that are more highly attuned to feelings of fear and threat.
Conservative authoritarians are also much more likely to be racist, prejudiced, and xenophobic. "
Conservatives political personality traits, media, and a predisposition towards both implicit and explicit bias animus towards non-whites is crystallized in their response to the killing of Michael Brown and other unarmed black people such as Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Jordan Davis.
The American Right-wings defense of those who kill black people ranges from a barbaric and instinctive impulse towards homicidal ideation (as seen by those who defend Darren Wilson and have donated money to him as a form of bounty or prize for the new age lynching of Michael Brown) to a more mundane and quotidian belief that black people are a race of criminals, and it is best for public safety that the police and other representatives of the state treat African-Americans in a prejudicial and unfair way."
More: http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/chaunceydevega/movement-conservatism-and-white-racial-paranoia-killed-michael-brown-they
bravenak
(34,648 posts)And I notice that it is always conservatives who make excuses for anyone who kills a black person.
damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)"The Nazis referred to the programs victims as burdensome lives and useless eaters.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/714411/T4-Program
bravenak
(34,648 posts)They used to call them the 47%.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Corruption Inc
(1,568 posts)It would send a chilling message to all the corrupt organizations that their crimes would not be tolerated.
Better just forget about it and "Look ahead".