List: Police, Race and Class | Curated by Will Shetterly

Nov 7, 2022
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Police, Race and Class
Will Shetterly
On Identitarian Mass Shooters, including Blacks Who Target WhitesI only have one point to add to the observation that “Mass shootings are always acts of violent suicide”: Mass shooters are either…
Jun 1, 2022
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Jun 1, 2022
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Not Either/Or—the US Needs Well-Regulated Guns and Better Mental Health CareThere are two subjects I rarely write about because nothing I say will change the minds of the polarized: abortion and gun rights. But the…
May 27, 2022
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May 27, 2022
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Middle-class POC have more White Privilege than Poor Whites — or, BLM Logic on Police KillingsIf you only see race, you see two facts about police killings in the US:
Aug 24, 2021
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Aug 24, 2021
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For every black victim of the police, there are equivalent white victimsAntiracists believe police abuse is based on race, but the statistics show it is based on class: almost everyone killed by the police in…
Apr 16, 2021
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Apr 16, 2021
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Arresting Henry Louis Gates was not about race — the real story is class and police powerIn 2009, one of Harvard’s most famous scholars, Henry Louis Gates Jr., was arrested for disturbing the peace. Every race reductionist in…
Dec 4, 2020
Dec 4, 2020
Will Shetterly
A handy list of female mass murderersSome people claim mass murder has to do with maleness. While mass murderers are disproportionately male and male aggression shouldn’t be…
Jul 21, 2020
Jul 21, 2020
Will Shetterly
A handy list of black mass murderers who were taken alive (for people who think being taken alive…Mass murderers expect to die. When cornered, some kill themselves and some do their best to die by suicide by cop. But some surrender, and…
Jul 21, 2020
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Jul 21, 2020
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Why #BlackLivesMatter should be #PoorLivesMatterPolice killings are racially proportionate to US poverty—two times as many white Americans than black are in poverty and two times as many…
May 17, 2020
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May 17, 2020
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Will Shetterly
I’m white and I got “the talk” about cops. Plus a handy list of white victims of police violenceI can’t remember how young I was when I got “the talk” about cops. My parents were part of the civil rights movement in Florida, so they…
Mar 6, 2019
Mar 6, 2019