cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1111823
A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.
I see that despite the incessant whining from Republicans, the FBI has changed little since Hoover.
Rest in peace Fred Hampton, murdered by the FBI without any consequences
Was there any punishement for running Cointelpro, a totalitarian surveillance program pointed against minority groups?
ah, that’s not surprising
really bad, but not surprising
I mean, the black panthers were labeled as an extremest group at one point… soooo yea.
From the perspective of the US state they were. Black liberation and communism are diametrically opposed to the interests of that state. BLM is largely not ML, but liberation of oppressed minorities (aside from the propertied ruling class) is still one of the threats the US state must respond to.
FBI is a racist organization controlled by a racist country.
Hyperbole much? The US consists of over 350 million people. You think all of them are racist? The people make the country. You’re getting upvotes because it’s a simple statement to make, but it’s not the truth. The US is an amazing country. There are still many racists, but there are less now than there were before, and this will continue to improve as we move forward.
It being a racist country doesn’t mean each person is racist. The country took part in decades of genocide, slavery, segregation, coups in countless countries, placed countless dictators in power, and inspired the Nazis (yes literally).
It’s had its issues, there’s no doubt about that. But it set the precedent for a new kind of society in 1760. It’s an amazing country.
Also, it didn’t inspire the Nazis, that is a ridiculous comment.
What new kind of society? Democracy and representative government are older than the US.
Nazis were literally inspired the US to use Zyklon B from when they used it on immigrants they still
continue to exploit https://www.npr.org/2006/01/28/5176177/the-bath-riots-indignity-along-the-mexican-border
Hitler literally praises the US in mein kampf and jim crow was an inspiration to the Nazi’s https://www.history.com/news/how-the-nazis-were-inspired-by-jim-crow
its had its issues It still has the issues lol the largest population in prison per capita, no healthcare, no public transportation, shrinking life expectancy, and they’re still occupying tons of countries, still sanctioning cuba for god knows what, still arming tons of dictators and terrorists around the world, etc etc
I no longer see systemic racism like there was at one time. Do you know if any government policies that are racist in nature? I don’t.
There’s a name for that buddy. Ignorance.
No, it’s liberal free speech. The big news outlets in America do not report their apartheid.
Only leftist media does and you’re labeled a terrorist for watching it.
Show me one law that is racist? I bet you can’t. At one time it was common. Ie. Where you could sit on a bus.
If anything we now have laws that are the opposite and support minorities.
The entire war on drugs is a racist endeavour that has created racist drug laws.
"You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
man, I guess the annual (at least) police killings of unarmed black people (including at least 2-3 children) just didn’t happen?
Do you know what the definition of systemic racism means? I think few people here do. It means there are laws and policies that are racist.
You will always have racist cops and neighbors and teachers. That is not systemic. That is just shitty people. Once you identify them and can prove it, then you can take action. Some always slip thru.
Drug prohibition
oh wow
This post is about a government contract that is racist in nature. Is that close enough for you?
Ironic that you criticized the comment for hyperbole and then use the straws an fallacy to try to shoot it down. The comment did not claim that all 350 million people are racist. You just acted like it did so you could criticize it.
And yes, the US is an amazing country with far fewer racists than ever before. I agree with you there.
the government is racist, though
like demonstrably racist
OP wasn’t talking about the average people
