Chronos wrote:
I could have also called the title "White Privilege Helps White Guy Get Out of Jail on Reduced Charges" because he was allowed to post bail after the last shooting and you and I know that if a black person was arrested that crime they would still be in jail and be charged with attempted murder, among other things.
A man thought female drivers were ‘incompetent’ — so he shot them, police sayClose, Chronos, but not quite savage enough. If he'd been black, odds are he'd already be dead. Not because the women's lives would be valued any more highly - we have all the data we need on the refusal of men in power to take the abuse of women by other men seriously - but because his actions would have furnished a plausible excuse.
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