Dallas Police Chief son Killed in Shooting

[DrPhil]

This reads like a murder-suicide combined with suicide-by-cop.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

This reads like a murder-suicide combined with suicide-by-cop.

I wonder if they'll play the race card.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

I wonder if they'll play the race card.

Who is "they"?

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Who is "they"?

Long standing thing between Dr.Phil and me about whether things exist actually or only as soceitial conceptions. She thinks the "race card" is not real, but thinks that "suicide by cop."

Basically, if there is no such thing as the "race card" then there is no such thing as "suicide by cop." because they were both pretty much just invented by the media. But if people who say there is no such thing as the "race card" continue to assert that anything is "suicide by cop" or "suicide" by anyone else for that matter, then I assert there is indeed a race card.

So this is suicide by cop until they play the race card.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

Long standing thing between Dr.Phil and me about whether things exist actually or only as soceitial conceptions.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

She thinks the "race card" is not real, but thinks that "suicide by cop."

I don't think you know what you're talking about.

Race is not a "card." The "race card" phrase was introduced around the time of the big affirmative action debates of the 1970s and 1980s to pretend as though people imagine and introduce race when it is not a factor. It is often an attempt to minimize the social significance of race and pretend that it is a figment of people's imaginations.

Suicide-by-cop is a form of suicide that was NOT created by the media. This form of suicide initially received much attention in the gang and criminal career literature and has received more research and community outreach over the past 10 years. This research and outreach has included attempted suicide-by-cop (thus, you get to talk to the people who attempted this form of suicide) and completed suicide-by-cop (in which you speak to the officers, family members, and examine the details of the situation).

Shut up.