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Topic subjectRE: Well it's the fear of Sharks versus Cow fear
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190036, RE: Well it's the fear of Sharks versus Cow fear
Posted by daryloneal, Fri Jul-24-15 08:49 AM
>Annually more people are killed by cows then are killed by
>sharks, but people are generally fearful of sharks than cows.
>Is that irrational?
>
>It would be if you lived on a dairy farm and never went to the
>ocean.
>
>But not if you were in the ocean where sharks live.
>

That's not a good example because we live in a place where there a multiple causes of death of black people that are greater than being at the hands of police.

>If a black person is in a situation interacting with the cops
>I don't think it is irrational to be fearful of them since we
>know a disproportionate amount of bad shit cops do to people
>happen to black people.
>

It's not irrational in that moment, no. But I'm not saying that.