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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

Here's a writer making a credible argument that class is actually the biggest factor in police violence: https://shetterly.blogspot.com/2016/09/why-blacklivesmatter-should-be.html

From the statistics he presents, the biggest risk factor for being a victim of police violence was poverty. So a separate case needs to be made that being queer or a PoC makes it worse with respect to police violence.

I'm not asserting - and I don't think that writer is - that life is equally difficult for PoC or queer people as for white cis people in all respects. But in this narrow category, it appears to be.

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GaldraChevaliere wrote

Given that the other articles I'm seeing by this writer are largely to the tune of "boo hoo idpol bad", I'm not particularly swayed. Class reductionists aren't known for their attention to nuance, and the argument he makes doesn't particularly refute the claim, because people of color, queer and disabled folk are still far more likely to be poor through the violence inherent in the system.

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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

people of color, queer and disabled folk are still far more likely to be poor through the violence inherent in the system

Good point, thanks for the food for thought.

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