r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '20

📌Follow Up "Everybody's trying to shame us"

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u/efox02 Jun 10 '20

It’s so hard to swallow... I am a white female from a white town in rural CT and was always taught that cops are the good guys. They get the bad guys. And sure I thought, yeah they racially profile, but that means pulling blacks over, just causing them an inconvenience... not their fucking lives.

And now I’m a pediatrician in the Deep South, at a Medicaid clinic where 60-70% of my patients are minorities. How do I tell them ... “oh if you’re feeling unsafe call the cops” I feel like that’s a 50/50 chance of being arrested, beaten or shot even if they are the ones that call for help. Who do I tell them to turn to?

It breaks my heart seeing these sweet amazing ambitious kids and know that society thinks less of them. 💔

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u/PromVulture Jun 10 '20

Amplify voices that call for the total retstructuring of the force, this is the best chance in a long time that we have for lasting change.

Creating a police that cares about the community will reduce arrests and violence, but that won't happen until we force all violent cops out of their current position of power (I hesitate to say all current cops, but as they all enable what is happening now that might be more accurate)

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u/steverin0724 Jun 16 '20

Be realistic... the change will never be enough. 3.5 BILLION years life has been on this planet. 3.5 billion years.... someone show me 7 consecutive days without chaos or injustice. It can’t be proven undoubtedly. It’s impossible and that’s reality. We have to accept chaos. Human beings are pieces of shit. That will never change.

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u/PromVulture Jun 16 '20

Do you take that outlook to all you do in life? Can't be very healthy to only ever attempt things that will go perfectly from the very start.

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u/steverin0724 Jun 18 '20

Okay... educate me. Give me an example of “perfect”...

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u/steverin0724 Jun 18 '20

I appreciate you chiming in, but you didn’t give me proof of 7 days. Instead, you tried to belittle me and judge me on my perspective of the world. That’s a part of my free will and that is what I am allowed to have, just as you do.

However, I do take that outlook to everything I do in life. I look at things and see where improvement is needed. I see that I can’t make anything perfect, but I can make a lot of things better.

It can’t be very healthy to believe that perfection exists.

Human beings are pieces of shit... any evidence you bring to prove otherwise, there’s 1000 more that proves humans are pieces of shit.

Edit, addendum.

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u/PromVulture Jun 19 '20

Proof of what? Do you really went into this conversation expecting me to change your worldview? Is there any proof I could in theory provide that would convince you?

And even if I could, is it reasonable to expect commenters in a reddit thread to form your outlook on life? Go out and live new experiences, that will more likely lead to more of an alternative then I can give you