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11hr ago
Chauvin judged that Floyd was in a state of excited delerium and placed Floyd in the officially taught prone restraint position (ctrl-f “Minneapolis police training slide”) for cases of excited delerium. Restraining subjects in ExDS was department protocol. Actually there’s a recording of Chauvin and another officer articulating this, and that the reason they had him in this position was because of ExDS. And Floyd’s behavior was classic ExDS. You should probably care if Chauvin was performing departmental policy conscientiously because otherwise you’re punishing the innocent, which is 100x worse than failing to punish the guilty. Why would you want a police officer to be deciding on the fly a new restraint technique? He’s not an expert in restraint, and he’s not a medical expert, and he is being placed in an extremely high stress situation. Would you be okay with sending doctors to the Rape Dungeon if they prescribe something that is only proven to be deadly post-hoc?
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13hr ago
IMO the event is a politically-useful red herring, and the more pertinent question is why one group in the UK gets to use tribalism to increase their wealth and influence but not the actual natives. The Sikhs in the UK rally around their ancestry and their race + homeland (cf Khalistan movement) to increase their in-group preference in business, to fund advocacy groups, and to energize their members who have a strong biological instinct to work for their blood and land (as all human males do). This gives them a variety of extra psychological and social boosts over the deracinated British, whose members are taught not to favor their own kind in business, who have no mainstream advocacy networks, and who do not dance around with swords and guns while hoping for purified and sovereign Bongistan. These things constitute a huge advantage and you can see the consequences in economic performance. Allow the native British to be as ingroup focused as the Sikhs, otherwise you’re just allowing a foreign group to have an eternal advantage over you in your own country (while using your resources to fund their own sovereignty movement back home), which is ridiculous and embarrassing. Of course, I’m not a Brit or Irishman or Scotsman, I am just embarrassed on their behalf.
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3d ago
French or Dominican-English.
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4d ago
These memes were a way to very subtly attack the political culture of the period. Because the basis of the meme was, “we are going to pretend that this gorilla was just as important as whatever supposed human tragedy we see on the news”. That’s what made it funny. The memes were not about caring for Harambe, but the idea that you are treating a gorilla like a globally newsworthy martyr like Michael Brown.
The reason ExDS fell out of fashion is that it’s overwhelmingly a phenomenon of young black men on drugs. For progressives, this means it can’t possibly be real. But it’s possible that there is a rare gene that makes some populations violently resist confinement which, when in combination with certain drugs, results in a heart attack. Why would that be impossible? We can imagine that such an instinct would confer an evolutionary advantage in violent regions of the world and in regions which did not face cold winters where confinement and close proximity would have weeded such an instinct out. And indeed certain Arcticism theorists note that East Asians have 12x less claustrophobia than Arabs, a population with African admixture. So the mere fact that Blacks experience it more frequently is not actually valid grounds for the illegitimacy of the psychiatric state, though this is the primary reason why doctors have become uncomfortable with the syndrome / state / diagnosis.
Unfortunately, multiracial jury trials are a meme.
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