[systemvoltage]

My experience and every person I know who has had positive experience with police in America. This is a progressive narrative to destroy law and order and institute a desolate, dystopian and rotting policies that we see in cities like LA and SF. I am sorry, I don't buy your narrative or the mainstream progressive one.

[hayst4ck]

To a liberal person, this response just reads like someone with privilege.

You're telling me that that I have an agenda meant to destroy law and order so I can live in a desolate dystopia (not even bothering to try to create a good faith explanation for why I believe what I believe), while I think you are a hapless victim of conservative media incapable of critically thinking, failing to understand that you are not supporting policy that is in your own best interest.

I wish it were possible to see eye to eye or understand each other, but clearly the schism between us is too great.

The irony is you believe I am under a delusion, and I believe you are under a delusion, and our opinions are irreconcilable. The end result (scaled across the population) can only be uneasy peace and a completely dysfunctional government or Civil War II and a balkanized America.

If you had read my post rather than jumping straight to "ridiculous liberal person," you'd see I've lived in SF and am quite unhappy with the policing there. So your assertion that I want to create an SF like environment doesn't make a lot of sense when I am simultaneously complaining about the SF environment.

[systemvoltage]

I am neither liberal nor white. Not privileged in any way. That’s the construct of your own.

Actually, this is a sure fire way to take any praise of the society and twist it as “privilege”. This creates more tension and conflict, because you decide to evaluate things not based on evidence but presumption and judgement.

[hayst4ck]

If you don't think you are privileged, you have not traveled (for exploration, not pleasure) enough.

If you think the concept of privilege is ridiculous, then you don't have the empathy to place yourself in another person's shoes.

Privilege is being in a situation where you could imagine walking in someone else's shoes but don't.

You've had nothing but good experiences with cops, but can't imagine what it's like walking in the shoes of someone who hasn't. You have the privilege of not understanding what that is like. That's what privilege means.