This is a great little comic which accomplishes its goal most effectively.i like how it's the dog who is asking all the reasonable questions. Also, even though the comic is taking a POV and arguing against a different POV, its tone is not nasty and there is no name-calling. Maybe it's the whimsy of the artwork itself that is giving me this vibe. Anyway, the person who created this is IMHO a true artist in the best sense of the term in that they have used their chosen medium to express an idea, or viewpoint in an engaging way to make people think.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but there's a monumental difference between a cop getting killed and a cop killing someone. Cops literally SIGN UP for the job knowing full well that it's extremely dangerous. Civilians never asked for a cop to break in their home or get wrongfully pulled over while driving, assaulted, raped, choked to death, etc. Civilians have NO WAY OUT. Cops can quit any day they want to avoid their job's many occupational hazards.
I’ve seen so many versions of this argument, but it always seems to boil down to, “Something bad happened somewhere else in the world, why aren’t you people [BLM] protesting that?” It’s as if BLM was suddenly responsible for defending every single thing that happens in the world. It’s an attempt to derail their protests and adding undue burdens on to the movement.
BLM came about as a response to police brutality and police killings of blacks, that should be its primary focus. But these people want to pile on these other issues as a way of minimizing that goal, not because they actually care about those other things, but because it’s an attempt to dilute BLM and make it seem like it’s misguided. It’d be like shitting on Habitat for Humanity for not doing anything about child soldiers in Sudan. Yea, obviously the majority of people are against that, but that’s not their mission.
A_friend_called_Five on July 12nd, 2020 at 12:54 UTC »
This is a great little comic which accomplishes its goal most effectively.i like how it's the dog who is asking all the reasonable questions. Also, even though the comic is taking a POV and arguing against a different POV, its tone is not nasty and there is no name-calling. Maybe it's the whimsy of the artwork itself that is giving me this vibe. Anyway, the person who created this is IMHO a true artist in the best sense of the term in that they have used their chosen medium to express an idea, or viewpoint in an engaging way to make people think.
Edit: Minor edit on punctuation.
PopeLeo_X on July 12nd, 2020 at 15:40 UTC »
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but there's a monumental difference between a cop getting killed and a cop killing someone. Cops literally SIGN UP for the job knowing full well that it's extremely dangerous. Civilians never asked for a cop to break in their home or get wrongfully pulled over while driving, assaulted, raped, choked to death, etc. Civilians have NO WAY OUT. Cops can quit any day they want to avoid their job's many occupational hazards.
obnoxiouscomment on July 12nd, 2020 at 17:07 UTC »
I’ve seen so many versions of this argument, but it always seems to boil down to, “Something bad happened somewhere else in the world, why aren’t you people [BLM] protesting that?” It’s as if BLM was suddenly responsible for defending every single thing that happens in the world. It’s an attempt to derail their protests and adding undue burdens on to the movement.
BLM came about as a response to police brutality and police killings of blacks, that should be its primary focus. But these people want to pile on these other issues as a way of minimizing that goal, not because they actually care about those other things, but because it’s an attempt to dilute BLM and make it seem like it’s misguided. It’d be like shitting on Habitat for Humanity for not doing anything about child soldiers in Sudan. Yea, obviously the majority of people are against that, but that’s not their mission.