South Florida cops claimed they were “forced to fire” at a 32-year-old Black man named Donald Taylor in August because he was armed and would not follow commands.
But newly surfaced video contradicts those claims, showing the Black man walking away from cops with his hands raised to his sides showing no gun in his hand when a Hollywood police officer fired a single shot as Taylor had his back turned to the cops, killing him.
My favorite part of this is how every reply is someone butthurt about the word I used and doing everything in their power to avoid the issue by focusing on the language and not the message.
Yea, using a cutesy, made-up, baby word to describe fucking murder is a bit distracting. Who the fuck would have guessed?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I think the reason you’re awash in upvotes for your original comment is because it’s simply a known thing for most of us and we don’t have anything to add. It just is what we know and what we’ve been fighting against my entire adult life. Conservatives will push all kinds of propaganda that doesn’t map to reality like “obey the law”, “just comply”, “all lives matter”. The police will shoot first and ask questions later, and those questions won’t have anything to do with law enforcement.
But there’s been a VERY long progression of reducing the amount of inter-generational connectivity and making sure that we barely even speak the same languages or dialects and some of us got caught off gaurd by your use of neotalk that’s been coaxed into reality by corporate social media platforms censoring certain forms of speech critical of the systems of torture we exist under. For example, what we today call cPTSD 100 years ago was called shell shock. Then it was called combat fatigue. Then combat stress reaction. Then it was PTSD. After that it was divided into cPTSD. And that’s an example of the terminology changing for reasons that we can very much find ways that it actually is positive. Each shift expanded the definition to include more people and more experiences. It’s easy to find the justification that while it divides successive combat veterans and how they talk about their own traumatic experiences and how the systems of torture that exist have broken them.
Most of us find it harder to find this silver lining in neotalk from corporate social media platforms. We just see our dialect eroding beneath us. But you don’t. And our generation has to do more to reach out to you and listen to you so that you have any reason to listen to us. So while I personally disagree, I refuse to let myself be upset about it, or butthurt as you put it (given that I’m not upset, I’m not even close to butthurt). All I can do is point out that inter-generational connectivity is intentionally broken by our oppressors by manipulating how we use language and hope that someday you’ll have this experience ready to help you talk to a younger generation who speaks differently from you. I hope you do so with grace, love, and patience.
That’s all I was getting at
It’s weird how the chat is assuming this is an age difference issue. That’s low key chopped.
chopped as in the AAVE use, or the co-opted TikTok use?
what does chopped mean in this context ?
And more importantly, who gives a fuck?
I do
It’s hard to say something profound about something so ugly and sad. It’s easy to critique language so you will have a lot more of what is easy. I’m angry at the issue but I don’t know what to say about it myself.
Wait what, why would it be hard? Ugly and sad things are probably the most important to talk about with more weight and significance than happy topics.