I don’t know if the genie can be put back in the bottle on this one. We are completely addicted to American culture wars - even when they don’t fit into our society - like when there were mass protests about police shootings in 2020, despite the fact police don’t carry guns here and firearms officers seldom discharge them.
Social media are basically what drive culture wars as opposed to the government. Information arrives at a rate faster than any human can process and then outrage content gets the most clicks.
Those weren’t so much about police shootings as much as they were about institutional racism like the discriminatory stop and search policy. The George Floyd protests in America got us to talk about the faults in our own policing and stand in solidarity on similar but different issues.
I don’t know if the genie can be put back in the bottle on this one. We are completely addicted to American culture wars - even when they don’t fit into our society - like when there were mass protests about police shootings in 2020, despite the fact police don’t carry guns here and firearms officers seldom discharge them.
Social media are basically what drive culture wars as opposed to the government. Information arrives at a rate faster than any human can process and then outrage content gets the most clicks.
Those weren’t so much about police shootings as much as they were about institutional racism like the discriminatory stop and search policy. The George Floyd protests in America got us to talk about the faults in our own policing and stand in solidarity on similar but different issues.