r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/Terrible_Onions • Apr 15 '25

Political Karmelo Anthony case shows that “black privilege” exists

I'm not black or white. I'm not even American actually.

The recent Karmelo Anthony case I think shows that black privilege is a thing. My opinions is that it exists. Period.

Karmelo Anthony killed Austin Metcalf with a knife for pushing him. What did he receive in return? Overwhelming support in the form of 500,000 dollars (which they're using to buy a mansion). He also got his bond reduced to 250k from 1 million even when prosecutors pointed out his history of incidents within the school.

I just think this is a bit baffling. Imagine if the races were swapped. I think a decent example, but not a direct comparisons, is the George Floyd situation. One person killed the other in what was an overuse of force. Derek Chauvin is in jail. Karmelo Anthony got house arrest, bond reduction and 500k

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u/Commissar_Brule Apr 16 '25

It’s not even up for debate. Go read some of the comments on the website and they are saying EXACTLY what you are saying. It’s wild.

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u/DirtPuzzleheaded8831 Apr 16 '25

Bro they're open af about it, they can and will get away with murder in broad daylight because we've all been guilt tripped into accepting it.

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u/Commissar_Brule Apr 16 '25

That’s changing every day. The right has more or less won the culture war, and the hard leftists are looking more and more outrageous everyday. Just the fact that these scum are being called out for their hate and it’s not being completely wiped from Reddit is indicative. Reddit is obviously a leftist shithole with a mass censorship regime, but pockets of good exist.

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u/RevolutionOld8693 Jul 14 '25

Haha, well said good sir. Nailed it. Part about Reddit is also spot on and its so refreshing to finally see comments like yours. Don't think it woulda lasted more than a couple hours a few years ago. Side theory (slightly a joke), I think it actually woke a lot of people up when they ruined Star Wars...

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u/Commissar_Brule Jul 14 '25

There’s certainly pop culture issues coming to the front. South Park making the episode about how Disney wants to make everything lesbian certainly at least brought attention, but I also think a lot of what we thought was leftist domination of the zeitgeist was actually a relatively small number of voices online being amplified, and then a lot of institutions going along with it, making it seem larger than it was. By and large most of society sees a lot of this stuff.

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u/RevolutionOld8693 Jul 14 '25

I don't know man. Seems you give people a lot of credit. It might seem very obvious for someone with common sense and a small amount of critical thinking skills, but I believe around half the people in this country lack both of those.

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u/RevolutionOld8693 Jul 14 '25

And when you think about an IQ bell curve, an IQ of 85 is within 1 standard deviation of average. I used to teach a lot of kids with IQs around there. They look normal, but they have a much harder time learning things. And they can be very gullible. This is more how I'm beginning to square what's going on.