cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1111823

A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.

    • Chipthemonk@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Hyperbole much? The US consists of over 350 million people. You think all of them are racist? The people make the country. You’re getting upvotes because it’s a simple statement to make, but it’s not the truth. The US is an amazing country. There are still many racists, but there are less now than there were before, and this will continue to improve as we move forward.

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        1 year ago

        It being a racist country doesn’t mean each person is racist. The country took part in decades of genocide, slavery, segregation, coups in countless countries, placed countless dictators in power, and inspired the Nazis (yes literally).

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          I no longer see systemic racism like there was at one time. Do you know if any government policies that are racist in nature? I don’t.

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              Show me one law that is racist? I bet you can’t. At one time it was common. Ie. Where you could sit on a bus.

              If anything we now have laws that are the opposite and support minorities.

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                man, I guess the annual (at least) police killings of unarmed black people (including at least 2-3 children) just didn’t happen?

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                  Do you know what the definition of systemic racism means? I think few people here do. It means there are laws and policies that are racist.

                  You will always have racist cops and neighbors and teachers. That is not systemic. That is just shitty people. Once you identify them and can prove it, then you can take action. Some always slip thru.

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                1 year ago

                The entire war on drugs is a racist endeavour that has created racist drug laws.

                "You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

      • arcturus@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        the government is racist, though

        like demonstrably racist

        OP wasn’t talking about the average people