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new York.
After the explosion, New Yorkers suddenly discovered that the news did not report this... It was not that someone was deliberately covering up these things, but... it was not New York's turn at all!
The news has recently been flooded with reports of all kinds of messy incidents happening in various places.
Among them, Chicago had the biggest disturbance.
The war between black and white... has begun!
At first, the story began with a sudden riot in Chicago, where many Chicagoans suddenly went crazy and started attacking people around them. The government also responded quickly and sent out the National Guard to suppress the riot.
Things are still under control here.
After all, Chicago's representative heroes, the Chicago Three, soon found the source of the unrest, a demon called "Dissension". They are a very rare demon. They are not strong themselves, but they can spread a non-lethal "virus". The media named it the "Blood Cross" virus. Once infected with this so-called "virus", the most obvious feature is the appearance of cross-shaped sores on the victim's face.
This thing is a bit like the zombie virus in movies and TV shows, but it is different from the zombie virus. After people become zombies, their minds degenerate, so modern military forces can easily contain this thing. But the Blood Cross is different. It retains people's intelligence. Its function is to destroy the moral quality education that people receive in their brains, and infinitely amplify evil.
This thing was created simply to spread chaos and strife.
The only thing to be thankful for is that not too many demons called discord have come into the world. The Chicago Three Heroines found them and killed them. Then the riots stopped on the third day. But the chaos they brought did not.
This depends on the number of casualties and the casualty ratio in Chicago that day.
First of all, the casualties in Chicago were heavy... You can't expect those thugs who have lost their reason and moral restraints to restrain themselves. The casualties are very large, but the fatality ratio is... Among the casualties, blacks account for the largest proportion, and it is overwhelming!
That's fine, the key is the ratio of the rich to the poor... Chicago also has police, they were dispatched immediately, then quickly retreated, and then protected the rich area! That's right, they retreated directly to the rich area, established a quarantine zone, and directly isolated the center of Chicago.
Then the people inside play battle royale.
Compared with the losses in the rich areas and the city center, the losses are just a drop in the bucket...
This kind of thing is very common in the United States.
The houses in the rich area are usually in the suburbs, and they are basically single-family villas with beautiful environment, birds singing and flowers blooming, as if you are in a paradise. In the ordinary area near the city center, the crowd is more chaotic due to the relatively developed public transportation, but the rent is low, and the property tax is also lower if you buy a house. However, the public security problem here is not as good as that in the suburbs. The rich area is different. There are all kinds of supporting facilities there, and there are a large number of police patrols 24 hours a day. The public security is naturally impeccable, and it is normal to leave the door open at night. There are also obvious differences between people living in different areas. In the United States, people from different areas rarely move across regions, and their activities are usually in their own circles. The rich area is mainly white, followed by Indians; while the ordinary area is mostly black guys, Mexicans and people from other places that cannot be mentioned. The supermarkets and stores in the rich area have better environments, but the prices are also higher; the ordinary area is mainly Wal-Mart, which is economical, but the shopping environment is naturally not as good as those high-end supermarkets in the rich area.
In general, the American population is very regionalized and hierarchical. When you drive to a strange city, you see a beautiful scene, with all kinds of green plants, birds singing and flowers blooming, and villas that are more beautiful than one another. Strangers on the street will smile at you or take the initiative to say hello to you, and you will think, wow, Americans are so friendly; but maybe when you turn a corner in the road ahead, the next area is full of shabby houses, and a group of black guys with their pants down their buttocks are wandering on the street, coming up to you to grab your car window and ask you for cigarettes.
There is no way. In the rich areas of the United States, there are police patrolling every street corner. If you wear a hooded shirt and then put on the hood, and walk on the street without a car, if you are a person of color, the police will come to check your identity in minutes. The police funds in the United States are allocated by local governments. The main source of tax revenue for local governments comes from property taxes, which are paid in proportion to the price of the house. The houses in the rich areas are expensive, the taxes are high, the police budget is large, and there are more police. The opposite is true in the poor areas.
In a poor neighborhood, if you are shot on the street, you may have to wait dozens of minutes for the police to arrive even if you call the police. After Detroit went bankrupt, if you are shot and fall to the ground in a slum, the ambulance will usually take half an hour to collect your body.
Are there serious cases in the rich areas? Yes. But they are very rare. It is not the America you see in the news. The rich areas in the United States are relatively the safest places in the world. You should know that the United States allows individuals to donate money to the police station. The police station will have a list. For the real breadwinners, the service is quite different. I live in an upper-middle-class community and have been to the police station once. It has an area with dense camera coverage similar to the Skynet system... Can you imagine how bad the public security can be?
This resulted in the rich areas suffering little losses, while the poor areas suffered heavy losses.
As soon as the incident happened, a large number of police officers from the Chicago Police Department gathered in the rich area... well, they were originally around the rich area. So they took control of the situation immediately. After all, if those rich people got into trouble, the police would definitely be in trouble!
The police opened fire decisively.
For American police, killing a rich man is a much more serious crime than killing ten black people! Of course, more importantly, the situation at the scene meets the requirements for the police to shoot!
The law enforcement philosophy of the United States is significantly different from that of China. The American police pay more attention to their own safety when enforcing the law. Influenced by Western culture, American police first consider their own safety when performing their duties. If the police feel threatened or in danger during the law enforcement process, they have the right to take self-defense measures, which is permitted by American law. Therefore, American police may appear to be more severe when performing their duties, frequently using handcuffs, body searches, and even shooting.
Both American law and practice emphasize the principle of preemptive strike. According to the American police's gun use regulations, once the police decide to use guns, their goal is to shoot the suspect's vital parts to ensure that they kill him. Media comments point out that American police strive to kill with one shot when shooting, because the police believe that merely firing a warning shot or injuring the suspect may lead to a counterattack from the other party, resulting in more casualties.
In the United States, it has become a social consensus that those subject to law enforcement have the responsibility to cooperate with the police unconditionally. If the public is questioned by the police, they should "do nothing and follow the police's instructions completely." For example, in an incident where a young man was shot to death with 61 shots, six police officers arrived and asked the young man to put down his air gun. However, the young man did not respond and even pointed the air gun at the police. This behavior was likely interpreted by the police as a signal of attack, which triggered the police's self-defense reaction and led to the shooting and death.
Those blood cross virus patients will not listen to the police, so the police can shoot at will!
This actually curbs the chaos!
Not to mention the loss of lives, even the property losses are serious!
You know, the Blood Cross Virus is not a zombie virus. The zombie virus is at most fatal, after all, zombies have no other desires except eating humans. But the Blood Cross Virus is different. It amplifies everyone's desires, and robbing property is also a kind of desire.
Murder, arson, robbery, any crime you can think of, appears in saturation.
After waiting for the demon of 'Dispute' to disappear, many people returned to normal and found that their homes had become physically empty... All valuables were gone, and some even had their houses set on fire!
This caused countless people who were still alive to break down their defenses.
As a result, countless poor people took to the streets... and a class uprising was about to happen.
Then the old American traditions reacted directly.
Identity politics again!
This is an old American skill, the anti-dragon slaying technique!
For decades, identity politics has played a prominent role in the American political arena, often sparking fierce disputes. The English word for "identity" is translated as "recognition" in some theoretical fields. If the two meanings of identity are combined into one word, "identity recognition", it may help to more fully reflect its meaning.
The so-called "identity" is, to put it bluntly, that is: everyone is born into a certain group, for example, blacks, Irish Catholics, Jews, and so on. When a person grows up in his group, he will experience and inherit its culture, history, and social relations, and develop a sense of belonging and identification with this group. In this regard, this concept seems to be obvious and indisputable. But it has theoretical importance and has triggered many practical changes. The founding concept of the United States is a liberal concept based on the individual, which is reflected in the Declaration of Independence drafted by Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
The founding philosophy of the United States is a liberal philosophy based on the individual, which is embodied in the Declaration of Independence drafted by Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
The concept of identity recognition does not approve of the "atomic" view of the individual, and inserts the "group" level between the individual and the government. This is different from liberalism in the basic principle of individualism. Individual rights may conflict with group norms. For example, a woman who demands equal rights for men and women is directly opposed to the "family rules and group rules" of the polygamous group she belongs to. How can she identify with them? However, the more important content of identity politics is that theorists and social activists who advocate this concept reveal that since the founding of the United States, not every individual has enjoyed equal rights or equal treatment. Some groups are discriminated against in various aspects of law or social norms. For example, blacks, women, Native Americans (Indians), certain immigrant ethnic groups (Jews, Irish, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Latin Americans, etc.), homosexuals... This list can be extended to a long time. This puts forward demands for the government and society to correct historical mistakes and uphold justice.
It was generally in the late 1960s, during the climax of the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, and the youth rebellion movement, that the concept of "identity" began to appear in theory and social dialogue. Various "disadvantaged groups" (self-identified or socially recognized) stood up to show their identities and tell their painful histories. The sensational novel and film "Roots" describes the family history of black slaves for generations and is a representative work. Disadvantaged groups demand equal treatment under the law and society, which means improving and expanding their or their status and rights that have been damaged and oppressed in the past and at present. Therefore, "identity" immediately leads to "identity politics". Once identity politics comes on the stage, it naturally becomes a central issue in elections and social activities - people are involved in the recognition, evaluation and dispute of the history, culture, and values of various groups, and participate in the legislation and social norms to adjust and redistribute rights. The greatest achievement of early identity politics was to improve the rights of blacks and women.
In the atmosphere of "political correctness", the influence of identity politics is far-reaching. For example, in the previous paragraph, when talking about the third person plural, the expression "they or they" was deliberately used. This is a specific example of adapting to the requirements of identity politics and political correctness. Feminists argue that in that sentence structure, we cannot follow the convention of using "they" to refer to men and women as a whole, but we should say "they or they". In English, there is no problem with the third person plural, just say they, them, their, but when speaking about the third person singular, you have to say he or she, him or her, his or her over and over again, which is very annoying. This is related to the right to speak, and is an important field or battlefield of identity politics and political correctness.
In recent years, identity politics has been a lively series on the American political stage. The Democratic Party has become the general spokesperson for identity politics of various "disadvantaged groups". Outside these disadvantaged groups are white people, men, and Christians - the "others" of almost every disadvantaged group in identity politics. Trump went against the trend and created a large group of populist followers (including many white people, men, and Christians), using the "them/us" confrontation as a call and defeating "them" as a goal to gain political advantage.
Identity politics is not a modern political party organization that is tightly organized and has a clear program. Its members have different tendencies, so it is not a modern political party organization that is established by strictly identifying with the organization's program. Protest, opposition, subversion and termination have become the main characteristics of identity politics.
However, in the long-term development of civil society, people are dissatisfied with the concept of citizenship that integrates different identities and statuses. This dissatisfaction is transformed into identity politics, making the confrontation of identities endless. A person can belong to different identities from different perspectives, so his behavior and ideas can also be divided. This division leads to social division and makes it difficult for the country to maintain basic order.
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