Anonymous #1 4w

I don’t know, sis. We’ve endured so much and are still facing these challenges. From slavery to fighting for basic human rights and all the nonsense in between…we’ve been through a lot. It makes me pause and wonder if things can actually get worse than this which I don’t think it can for US. We’re not new to law enforcement abusing their power and killing us without consequences.

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Anonymous #1 4w

I don’t know man I’m just super numb to it all at this point in my life. Numb and tired of it.

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Anonymous #6 4w

if you read this post and genuinely saw it as op making it a competition, you lack comprehension skills

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Anonymous #9 4w

LITERALLY.

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Anonymous pink_trumpet72 4w

Mad for what? 🤣

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Anonymous #12 4w

Saying I’m numb doesn’t mean I don’t care. It means I’ve been exposed to so much harm and injustice that my emotions are overwhelmed right now. Numbness is a trauma response, not indifference. I can care deeply and still feel emotionally shut down. Many of you lack comprehension skills… but then again this is America and the education system sucks so I’ll give you grace.

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Anonymous OP 4w

This little “I’m better than everyone. I’m so tortured and numb to violence. Anyone who disagrees with me is just below my intelligence level” persona you have going on isn’t cute. You are not a good person

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Anonymous #12 4w

It’s not a “flex”. People repeatedly exposed to horrific events become desensitized. They have to to keep going. It’s trauma.

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Anonymous #3 4w

I’m literally a psych major and in grad school studying the brain. I don’t need you to explain this to me. I highly doubt OP has much PERSONAL and first had experience. I’m sure she just saw it online like the rest of us did. It’s horrifying for all of us to see and terrifying knowing it could be us next. Idk about you but if I was brutalized by a cop, I wouldn’t want some chick in her edgy phase purposely not giving a fuck and blaming it on being desensitized. Everyone who dies is terrible-

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Anonymous #3 4w

She can’t use “well it’s white people dying now so i don’t see them as an individual anymore. They’re just another statistic” as an excuse

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Anonymous #3 4w

She’s just switching up bc she doesn’t identify with the people being harmed

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Anonymous #12 4w

idk i don’t think that’s what she meant, i think she’s overwhelmed because so many people ignore others’ suffering and co-sign it, and the black community has been saying this forever. i can see her feeling dehumanized and also exhausted. statistically speaking, white americans are primarily the cause of trump being president. they also are and have been the biggest excusers of this administration

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Anonymous #12 4w

Damn 😔now I’m not a good person… okay.

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Anonymous OP 4w

And aren’t. Glad we’re on the same page

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Anonymous #12 4w

Lmfao. I hope you have a good day 💗

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Anonymous #13 4w

why am i getting downvoted, i’m just saying why i personally think ICE is scarier than the cops. i didn’t tell anyone they have to think the same way as me

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Anonymous #13 4w

ICE is scarier to me because sometimes they go on duty without a uniform

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Anonymous #12 4w

i feel like you’re twisting her words to attack her character, and i don’t vibe with that. there’s nothing honorable or helpful in talking like that to someone. she didn’t say doesn’t care, she said she feels desensitized

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Anonymous #13 4w

Which leads to not caring. I’m not even gonna argue why not caring about violence is bad. Bye

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Anonymous #12 4w

you’re assuming she hasn’t seen brutality up front which is such a white republican assumption to make. to think that everyone’s lives have been safe and pretty

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Anonymous #12 4w

So anyone desensitized and who talk about being desensitized “don’t care” and are therefore bad?

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Anonymous #12 4w

how does it lead to not caring? maybe for you, but not everyone operates that way. that literally sounds like a projection

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Anonymous #12 4w

black and white thinkers tend to not really have anything productive to add. nobody said she doesn’t care about violence, you are quite literally making that equation yourself. i’m assuming that’s you operate, that if you feel desensitized you stop caring about people being killed. don’t put that on her when you don’t know her, she literally said she still cares

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Anonymous #14 4w

Yeah, I made this post early in the morning after seeing the body cam footage, and it reflected how I felt in that moment. I was genuinely just venting in GT and didn’t expect it to be so misunderstood. Now I’m being accused of being a bad person and my words are being interpreted as competition. I’ve definitely learned my lesson about venting in here 😅😂, that’s for sure. Glad there’s some of you who understood the post immediately.

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Anonymous #14 4w

#12 needs to hear this. attacking people’s character because you’re narrow minded is not the flex you think it is. it’s arrogant

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Anonymous #14 4w

like keep that energy for the people that voted trump in and continue to support him. being quick to twist random black people’s words so you can attack them is strange

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Anonymous #12 4w

Exactly. OP needs to check herself

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Anonymous #16 4w

Or maybe because it was publicly recorded shooting with like 4 different angles and lots of footage before/after. Idk, could have an effect 🤔 Get more tired

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Anonymous OP 4w

yeah i’m sorry you got so much backlash. a lot of people on here just look for fights, i think they’re looking for some control in that way. this community is not here for nuance or being open minded😭

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Anonymous #12 4w

ngl who are you to say the OP has or hasnt had personal encounters irl, you dont know them ⁉️

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Anonymous #13 4w

I’m not white nor republican so. Don’t preach about not making assumptions if you’re gonna make assumptions

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Anonymous #13 4w

ice is scarier to me bc they have been given so much “power” & “authority” that ice doesn’t have. ice is not law enforcement, ice does not have jurisdiction over u.s. citizens, ice was created to help people immigrate, not kill people.

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Anonymous #15 4w

All I’m saying is I’m not mourning this woman when Keith Porter hasn’t even made the news. There’s been so many public murders of Black folk but still no one cares.

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Anonymous #16 4w

bae it is not a competition… i’m enraged about the inequality of media coverage between white tragedies & non-white tragedies, but i’m not using that rage to make a point to not mourn one just bc another isn’t publicly being mourned. both are huge losses.

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Anonymous #21 4w

After years of marching and screaming into the literal void I think it’s a little insane that only Renee’s death is being treated as a tragedy. I will not be marching for people who overwhelmingly did not show up in the polls, where this could’ve been avoided.

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