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In reply to the discussion: If your first response to yet another shooting of a PoC by a cop [View all]Hekate
(90,674 posts)No, really. If you are a white woman or any woman, but I just mention the ones who live with the privilege of whiteness, AND YET hear the same garbage from the age of puberty on through old age about how THEY are responsible for being assaulted.
By the same token our culture places the majority of the blame for black men being targeted and killed by white cops squarely on the shoulders of the victims.
If only she hadnt been walking down the street in a cute dress. If only he hadnt been driving a brand new car that didnt have metal plates yet. If only she hadnt gone to that party and unwittingly ingested Rohypnol. If only he hadnt been jogging. If only she hadnt let the cat out at 2 a.m. If only hed put his hands on the steering wheel and hadnt asked the cops why they pulled him over. If only she hadnt been jogging.
Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch. These are not merely crimes of opportunity predators will make their own opportunities, and we seem to have a culture just full of predators.
Don't give me that line about Not all Men. Fix it! You fix it! It isnt up to the victims and targets to endlessly alter their behavior until there is no possible mode of being in this world at all.