gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 months agoMyth of 'superhuman strength' in Black people persists in deadly encounters with policeapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkMyth of 'superhuman strength' in Black people persists in deadly encounters with policeapnews.comgAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square26fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareTTH4P@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months ago“We consider the perp both inferior and also impossibly strong” - police …sheesh why does that sound so familiar?
minus-squareHopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI’ve definitely heard it somewhere before…
minus-squaresome_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months ago Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco
“We consider the perp both inferior and also impossibly strong” - police
…sheesh why does that sound so familiar?
I’ve definitely heard it somewhere before…
Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco
Oh yeah!