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		kleer001 on June 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: America is giving up on the pandemic? > Life isn't a pissing contest of "my problem is bigger than your problem". > Systemic racism is way bigger than just police killings. ?

fwip on June 8, 2020 [–]

The first means "it doesn't make sense to compare these."

The second means "Even though you're trying to compare these problems, you've massively underrepresented the impact of systemic racism by simplifying it to the number of police killings."

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