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In reply to the discussion: We must NOT buy into the narrative that a cop's life is worth more than any other [View all]RobinA
(9,878 posts)to "tiered worth," it is usually not the lives themselves that create the difference, but what they stand for. I've often wondered why the lives of the passengers on the 9/11 planes seem to be valued so much more than any other poor schmo killed in a jet crash. Why isn't every site of a plane crash a National Monument like the in Tannersville? The people killed in the Jamaica Bay crash right after 9/11 are just as dead as the ones who hit the Trade Center and their presence at the scene was just as random. But did their relatives receive huge payouts from the government? I think not.
Currently, if you are a black man wrongly shot by a cop you seem to be worth more than if you are a white man wrongly shot by a cop, who don't seem to exist at the current moment. It's the narrative of the day/week/month/year/decade that determines the tiering. Rightly or wrongly.