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When Amy Cooper threatened to call the cops, she was threatening to take a black man’s life. It’s a threat that only works because cops are so consistently willing to murder black and brown men. Amy Cooper was able to dial up 400 years of racial oppression and violence on her phone more easily than I am able to order a pizza.
There’s Only One Possible Conclusion: White America Likes Its Killer Cops | the Nation
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Evasion – Closely related to diversion, this is a tactic by which a manipulator tries to avoid being cornered on an issue by giving rambling, irrelevant responses to a direct question or otherwise trying to skirt an issue.
In Sheep's Clothing
George K. Simon Ph.D.
In fact, famine has not been increasing but has become rarer. When *The Population Bomb* appeared, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization, something like one out of four people in the world was hungry. Today the proportion of hungry is about one out of ten. Meanwhile, the world’s population has more than doubled. People are surviving because they learned how to do things differently. They developed and adopted new agricultural techniques—improved seeds, high-intensity fertilizers, drip irrigation.
The Book That Incited a Worldwide Fear of Overpopulation
Charles C. Mann
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