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In reply to the discussion: What's with police cursing at people they're trying to apprehend? [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)focusing attention on each case in isolation, insisting that in THAT case, there were good reasons for the cops to act as they did. Never mind that the reasons in one case are completely contradictory to those in another ("He should have complied " "He complied, but he complied too slow" "She complied, but she complied too fast" ...). They do everything they can to try to keep people from pulling back focus to see the patterns that cannot be explained away by these picayune individual excuses. Because they know that when looking at the bigger picture, there is only one explanation for the fact that myriad situations all have the same result.
So when attempts to disaggregate and distract fail, they resort to deflection and gaslighting, accusing us of "smearing all cops as racists" and/or "calling all white people bigots."
DU offers a fascinating, if frustrating and pretty disgusting, case study of this practice - proving, among other things, it's not limited to racist Republicans.