alt Hacker NewsI don't understand your reply.
The book seems to be a cheap cash grab designed to monetize on the "cops are mean and corrupt" rethoric.
It's the modern equivalent of a wallet with the silk screened face of Che Guevara on it. It only serves to boost a domesticated leftist rethoric that is very much under control of the media itself (media does their anti-cop pieces once in a while to appease the pseudo-revolutionary youth).
Although police brutality and it's relation to sensationalist media are totally related, the book does nothing to solve it. It capitalizes on it. If anyone solves it, then the author has no next book to publish.
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relaxing • yesterday at 12:52 AM
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> the modern equivalent of a wallet with the silk screened face of Che Guevara on it
Sure. And I'd argue someone with that wallet is more likely to be knowledgeable about various elements of American and Latin American sociopolitical history than someone who doesn't. Even if just from reactions they get to it.
> It only serves to boost a domesticated leftist rethoric
In the short run. In the long run it breeds healthy scepticism among the intelligent. (It probably also radicalises some idiots. But I don't really have a systemic solution to stupid people.)