Lumpenproletariat
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Is there something wrong about this video?
When I first viewed this YouTube I was "shocked" or disturbed, or something, but I did believe it was a real incident, showing a real case of a White racist cop stopping a car to harass the Black driver. I didn't suspect it much at first but just took it as being genuine. But after reflecting on it more carefully I realized that it had to be fake, or that it's scripted, performed by actors.
Yet I was fooled by it at first, believing these were real cops on the job, and somehow there were cameras which caught the racist behavior, and probably this White racist cop later got fired for his bad behavior.
Does almost everyone recognize immediately that it's fake / scripted, or is it normal to believe it at first and only a few minutes later finally realize that it's really staged for the camera? In my case it required maybe 10 minutes later for me to conclude that it's fake. I even wondered if I might be racist for doubting it, and so I wasn't sure what to conclude. And only after 20 or 30 minutes did I become absolutely certain that it's fake.
Then I looked at the website more, and it became more clear that this and other videos there are fake. I looked for some kind of explanation that the videos are staged, and there seems to be nothing. Also, in the comments, I can't find anyone noting that these are scripted and not genuine incidents -- but I scanned only a few comments, so maybe there are some which criticize the artificiality and staging.
Even though there are such incidents of cops harassing Black drivers, are there really incidents where it's this blatant? I was dumbfounded when I watched it originally, even though I took it to be genuine and not fake. I was amazed at the "your kind" remark by the racist cop, and I have trouble believing that even a racist cop would act like this, showing his racism so transparently.
Is there something wrong with posting videos like this, where everyone seems to pretend that the videos are genuine, even though they must be fake? Is this dishonest?
There shouldn't be any censorship, but isn't it irresponsible for the producers to present these scenarios as though they are genuine incidents, which some viewers believe are real?
Also, assuming it's fake, does this suggest that there is something wrong with the producer's message -- claims of such discrimination, harassment by cops -- that this requires using deception, or fake presentations, in order to get their point across? If they have a legitimate point to make, why should it require fake posts like this in order to communicate it?
When I first viewed this YouTube I was "shocked" or disturbed, or something, but I did believe it was a real incident, showing a real case of a White racist cop stopping a car to harass the Black driver. I didn't suspect it much at first but just took it as being genuine. But after reflecting on it more carefully I realized that it had to be fake, or that it's scripted, performed by actors.
Yet I was fooled by it at first, believing these were real cops on the job, and somehow there were cameras which caught the racist behavior, and probably this White racist cop later got fired for his bad behavior.
Does almost everyone recognize immediately that it's fake / scripted, or is it normal to believe it at first and only a few minutes later finally realize that it's really staged for the camera? In my case it required maybe 10 minutes later for me to conclude that it's fake. I even wondered if I might be racist for doubting it, and so I wasn't sure what to conclude. And only after 20 or 30 minutes did I become absolutely certain that it's fake.
Then I looked at the website more, and it became more clear that this and other videos there are fake. I looked for some kind of explanation that the videos are staged, and there seems to be nothing. Also, in the comments, I can't find anyone noting that these are scripted and not genuine incidents -- but I scanned only a few comments, so maybe there are some which criticize the artificiality and staging.
Even though there are such incidents of cops harassing Black drivers, are there really incidents where it's this blatant? I was dumbfounded when I watched it originally, even though I took it to be genuine and not fake. I was amazed at the "your kind" remark by the racist cop, and I have trouble believing that even a racist cop would act like this, showing his racism so transparently.
Is there something wrong with posting videos like this, where everyone seems to pretend that the videos are genuine, even though they must be fake? Is this dishonest?
There shouldn't be any censorship, but isn't it irresponsible for the producers to present these scenarios as though they are genuine incidents, which some viewers believe are real?
Also, assuming it's fake, does this suggest that there is something wrong with the producer's message -- claims of such discrimination, harassment by cops -- that this requires using deception, or fake presentations, in order to get their point across? If they have a legitimate point to make, why should it require fake posts like this in order to communicate it?
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