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When the police start snitching on each other, I will buy into this argument. Otherwise, it is bullshit and just a tool to keep minorities and the lower economic classes in line.

I don’t deny the mega rich criminals need to be snitched on as well, they call them whistle-blowers, but you can’t ALSO sit there and say that drugs and gangs are not ALSO tearing apart low income and minority communities. I mean some dude get shot in the middle of the street and ain’t no one gonna say shit? How is

Counterpoint: Snitching isn’t about non-criminals telling on criminals. It’s about being a criminal and not selling out other criminals to reduce your own time. Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

But snitching is demonstrably a terrible activity that tears communities apart, fosters mistrust and paranoia, and grants greater power to authorities who enforce unjust laws. There’s a real hypocrisy in exposing criminality in the lower echelons of society while refusing to do anything about the mega-crooks who contro

“I’m just saying that black people are rarely willing to take meaningful steps to exert pressure and force change.”

well how about this. start with the man in the mirror. and don’t worry about what the NFL players do. YOU pull back YOUR support of the NFL because YOU feel it is the right thing to do. I mean unless you love those rich white owners over at the NFL so much that you can’t control yourself. Then, by all means, relent.

Literally the dumbest thing said by anybody, ever.

I’ve heard a lot of well-meaning white people talk about how we should ignore the Nazis or make fun of them and I’m just shaking my head in disbelief.