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StarfishSaver

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3. Nothing new

Reply to Nevilledog (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 22, 2020, 09:22 PM

Jun 2020

One of the reasons that slave masters often gave slaves the job of overseer and the SS guards put Jews in charge of the barracks.

If degraded and abused enough, oppressed people will sometimes take on the characteristics and attitudes of their oppressor. Several scholars, including John Blassingame, documented this phenomenon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slave_Community

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Police Researcher: Officers Have Similar Biases Regardless Of Race [View all] rpannier Jun 2020 OP

So cop culture is pervasive enough to make black officers prejudiced against other POC. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #1

Nothing new StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #3

Absolutely. Nevilledog Jun 2020 #4

The type of person recruited into policing matters also, big IMO. Blue_true Jun 2020 #6

We're all blanketed with media that's full of biased messaging and racist stereotypes ecstatic Jun 2020 #5

Yep, Ice Cube wrote about this years ago. Black cops showin out for the white cops to fit in. uponit7771 Jun 2020 #2

It's worse than that. Igel Jun 2020 #8

I can believe it I know black people who don't like Black culture or other groups of black people uponit7771 Jun 2020 #10

The problem is simply how individual racist cops treat individual black people StarfishSaver Jun 2020 #7

And how "good cops" turn a blind eye to bad cops. PTWB Jun 2020 #9