@oralloy,
And you can address any of the topics you responded to based on principles...which you chose not to do......but rather you chose to make your writings specifically about race.
Race never needs to come into statements of principle like:
- every person has the right to defend themselves (see, no race required)
- every person has the right to be safe (see, no race required)
- no-one should engage in double standards (see, no race required)
- we should see each other as human (see, no race required)
- we should try and understand perspectives of both sides (see, no race required)
...which type of statements were all that were necesary to a response.
If someone breached that, then you can discuss the breach of principle (which again, requires no race be identified). No one else typed your racialised writings for you.
If a group (police/jails/army etc) as a whole has a pattern of breaches of such principles, then the talk is always qualified with something like 'some members'. Blanket statements about any group inherently require double standards - in order to be 'true'.
But from your responses so far, I am reminded that people are able to justify any of their ugly behaviours to themselves. It seems unlikely that you will take a moment to reflect on how you can remove your own racism from your writings & conversations. It's not justified because
'they started it!' - that's childrens logic. Us v them, and double standards are not justified in either direction. In both directions, it's racism.