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190205, RE: no misinterpretation.........points were addressed
Posted by daryloneal, Sun Jul-26-15 08:59 PM
>And my response was, there is no way you can know the amount
>of fear a people can have based on social media (tweets,
>facebook posts). How do you know what Blacks, as a people,
>fear and to what degree they fear?

So you also don't know if I'm wrong. My perception is based on what's been made available.

>
>You admitted that all people fear things when something else
>is most likely to take them out; unless 100% correct means
>something else. Kind of like how "lose your shit" cannot mean
>outrage....but something else right? I still want to know
>what "lose your shit" means if not outrage...but I digress.
>
>So why is it when it comes to Blacks, it's more upsetting and
>irrational

Lose your shit, to me, means lose your cool, which in this case is tied to people expressing what I consider to be irrational fear and hysteria.

Also, I never said that it was more upsetting than anything else at all. I agree that most if not all people have some sort of irrational fear (including myself). I just called out what I believe it is. Again, let's stick to what I actually said.

>
>You mentioned Arnesha Bowers yet I linked an online BET
>article expressing how upset communities were about the
>occurrence.
>

Upset isn't an indication of resulting fear. It's just a reaction to it happening at all (i.e. "that's messed up"). Additionally, I just read that article and there is nothing in there that actually supports the title. The only direct quote is from a Police major.

>So, because you have no way of measuring how Blacks feel as a
>people, what they fear, and to what degree they fear I find
>your logic to be off.
>
>Once again, your perception is skewed.

You can believe that if you want, we don't have to agree. But I do appreciate you making an attempt to stick to what I actually said.