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Myth of 'superhuman strength' in Black people persists in deadly encounters with police

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Myth of 'superhuman strength' in Black people persists in deadly encounters with police

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politics @lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Researchers say the term “superhuman strength” is a relic of the post-Civil War Reconstruction era that was applied to Black men, often to justify racist violence.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240430115700/https://apnews.com/article/superhuman-strength-lethal-restraint-police-b6ec5846ce18784ab99438eeb3f27eef

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“We consider the perp both inferior and also impossibly strong” - police

…sheesh why does that sound so familiar?
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  I’ve definitely heard it somewhere before…
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    Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.
    
    Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco
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      Oh yeah!

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