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Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

148 points · 332 comments · obscurette

Molitor5901 · 1790605879 · focus · HN ↗
I agree with the author, violence against educators has become normalized, but it's also been a fault on both sides. Both sides have lost respect for one another, and the reasons why depend a lot on politics and social issues. It almost mirrors the strife between citizens and cops: each side entrenching believing they "know what's best" and the other side be damned.
1. ryanmcbride · 1790606254 · focus · HN ↗
  Ah yes, the two equally immoral sides of "stop killing unarmed black men" and "no we like doing it". I simply don't know who to side with!
  1. DaSHacka · 1790606338 · focus · HN ↗
    "unarmed" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
    civilrightsamir · 1790606987 · focus · HN ↗
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  2. guywithahat · 1790607009 · focus · HN ↗
    I don’t think that view holds up to data, for instance you’re more likely to get shot by police as an unarmed white person than black person, when adjusted for population/crime. Even ignoring this, the number of unarmed black people shot per year is usually <20, so it’s not like the problem is endemic.
  3. letmevoteplease · 1790607124 · focus · HN ↗
    27 unarmed black men were killed by police in 2019 according to the Mapping Police Violence database. (Despite this, 53.5% of people identifying as "very liberal" estimated that 1,000 or more unarmed black men were killed. Only 15.71% correctly estimated "about 10."[1]) There are 800,000 police officers in the United States, so I am not sure you can say they generally enjoy killing unarmed black men based on a few dozen deaths a year.
    [1]<a href="https://research.skeptic.com/content/files/2025/02/Research-Report-CUPES-007.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://research.skeptic.com/content/files/2025/02/Research-...
  4. monideas · 1790609631 · focus · HN ↗
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