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Topic subject | RE: 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.
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