Anonymous #1 6w

What are you considering the “root cause” in this example? Being Black?

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

No of course not but whenever gun violence is brought up it's rarely mentioned that a majority is black on black violence because the narrative in the media is that we have a problem with school shooter type violence. I think the reasons that it takes up such a massive amount of the toll are multifaceted and go back to things like the CIA funneling crack into Black inner city populations but continue with stuff like the music industry promoting violence today.

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Anonymous #1 6w

I think points about the music industry encouraging violence are fundamentally hackneyed, art imitates life, and so violence is gonna beget violent artistic expressions, not the other way around imo. Other than that, yeah I agree with you I just had to check and make sure you weren’t on that right wing bullshit about “black crime” lmao

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Anonymous #1 6w

Not sure where you’ve been but I think liberals know this better than anyone. I don’t see republicans coming up with initiatives in black communities to target the systemic issues of gun violence or recognizing the past trauma of the community and looking for ways to grasp that and move forward stronger.

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Anonymous #1 6w

Like, Undertow by Tool is one of my favorite albums ever, has been since I was like 13, I don’t listen to Prison Sex on that record and be like “doing rape is metal as fuck” lmao

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Anonymous OP 6w

Eh the talking point I always get is more "we need to ban scary looking rifles" and not anything related to what you mentioned but I will look into that, I may be mistaken

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Anonymous #1 6w

I mean that’s definitely how national level Democratic politicians, but the work OP was talking about usually happens at a community level, done by people you would never see on the national news, a vast majority of whom are liberals or leftists

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Anonymous #1 6w

And I do think national Democrats are stupid on the gun issue, but that’s because I’m a socialist and not a liberal, and any principled socialist will tell you that the working class has a fundamental right to be armed

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Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 6w

Why do people support national democrats then? Are they idiots?

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Anonymous #1 6w

I mean I vote for them on a lesser-evil basis, because while I have my disagreements with the Democratic Party, I have more and deeper disagreements with the Republican Party, so if it’s The Imperfect But Mostly Okay Guy or the Straight Up Backwards Guy, then yeah I’m voting for the imperfect one.

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Anonymous #1 6w

But I’m also not a Democrat and don’t really defend them from criticism, you’d have to ask an actual Democrat why people EMPHATICALLY support them. I will never understand that unless they get their shit together.

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