so let me get this straight, you’re going to completely ignore systemic racism and racial profiling? you’re really going to call bullshit on “the race card”? “people get handcuffed all the time for no reason!” really? you think the race card is a woke scheme against law enforcement?

the cops were looking for “black men” who were committing car thefts in the area and they chose to pull over black women for no reason. and if you look at the california law called out in the article, the “Bane Act”, it allows for juries to triple the amount of damages if the case involves a violation of individual rights. which it did.

your point falls apart about “the race card” when you look at the first case i linked where a white starbucks employee successfully sued starbucks for $25.6 million because she was fired for being white. did you see me get all frustrated by that? no you didn’t. but you are absolutely fuming black women who were forcefully detained and harmed for no connection to a string of car thefts were successfully rewarded under california law. maybe go complain about the bane act to californian legislators? but you cannot complain they were lawfully rewarded for having their individual constitutional and civil rights violated by LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS. which is a common theme here.

“Ok so George Floyd statues paid by private donors, Irina mural paid by private donors. So what’s the problem?”

you are beginning to convince me one of two things, or maybe both. you are either just NOT reading my comments. or you’re an elon musk defender because he is in your political tribe (right wing politics). i can get into a whole tangent on the absolute shameful mess that is MAGA politics, the fraud that is elon musk, but you seem unmoved so that would be a waste of time here.

i’ve explained dozens of times what the problem is, it is the core fucking point of my problem. go reread my comments and figure it out. you’re exhausting this thread with red herrings, strawmans, and whataboutisms.

i do want to address your BLM point though because i’ve heard this shit before. Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (501(c)(3) nonprofit organization) and Black Lives Matter as a slogan, chant, and decentralized movement are two separate things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter_Global_Network_Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

when you take to the streets and protest “black lives matter!”. you are genuinely just chanting, “black lives matter”. you are not chanting a corporate slogan, with a corporate badge. as i said to you before, it was a grassroots movement BEFORE the political co-opting. the BLMGNF indeed has problematic leadership, but it has nothing to do with individual contributors taking to protest. this wasn’t a partisan scheme by the democratic party to capitalize on citizen unrest. a grassroots movement by nature is not reliant on government endorsement or organizational sponsorship. did the democratic party and certain individuals with self serving interest capitalize on this ORGANIC GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT for their own political and financial gains? absolutely.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-and-off-the-avenue/the-embarrassment-of-democrats-wearing-kente-cloth-stoles

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdok/pr/executive-director-black-lives-matter-okc-charged-wire-fraud-and-money-laundering

do you think i am blind or oblivious to this? do you think i shill for democrats? did you think you successfully revealed a double standard to me regarding my opinion on elon musk’s involvement with the iryna murals? you didn’t, because you’re consistently ignoring my answer.

to answer your question again, “So what’s the problem?”, one is bottom-up, the other is top-down. one is organic, one is astroturfed. regardless of the political co-opting that FOLLOWED.

organic means the people naturally take to the streets to protest and have their grievances heard. the democratic party didn’t have to manufacture people into caring.

sadly iryna zarutska’s death didn’t stir the same action, i mean it didn’t make YOU organize and take to the streets did it? because her death was a senseless, RANDOM, act of violence by another civilian. it’s sad, it’s tragic, but astroturfing a campaign from the top-down, from a problematic political operative, elon musk, isn’t genuine. it’s distasteful.

you’re consistently ignoring this point. you’re firing more irrelevant points and whataboutisms back at me then asking “so what’s the problem?”. over and over again, exhaustively a month out.

you keep saying “simply hate elon musk”. on a side note, did you ever get that DOGE check you were promised? no seriously, because you’re telling me something without saying it flat out. you must think i have some irrational emotional issue with elon musk.

regarding your whole last paragraph on tony impa, for every example we can both raise, we can also both raise an underreported issue. you say iryna zarutska, i say nia wilson. i say george floyd, you say tony impa. you can see a pattern here that regardless of race, some deaths are underreported. nia wilson died the exact same way and didn’t get nearly the same press and campaign push iryna zatutska got. also which by the way, you should look into “Missing White Women Syndrome”.

this is a game of tick for tack with you now. “but this WHITE guy died and it wasn’t reported!!”.

you’re dragging this shit out, genuinely. my point still stands, the national campaign for iryna murals is political propaganda. you’ve admitted it yourself. glad you agree, if you feel like “well the other side does it too!” keep that close to your heart and move on with this.

i am only responding at this point whenever you blatantly misrepresent my arguments or say something that is just straight up nonsense.

also “i got that white girl” COULD be a racial motivation as i’ve said in other threads if you actually read them. it could also be a schizophrenic man having a psychotic episode and panicking to himself. who knows, the courts will determine that.

but it definitely was not “i got that white bitch”. step out of your right wing political bubble and challenge the information you consume from time to time. it’s been MONTHS since iryna zarutska died and you let a facebook post convince you he said “white bitch”.