So far as I can tell “racial conspiracy theories” is a term this study made up, In order to be able to address their own premise. It’s it’s hard to look at this and not consider it gaslighting.

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    5 months ago

    i think they’re differentiating between “created for that purpose originally” and “had been known to do/be”.

    but even then, seems like a flawed and pointless distinction. the oldest proto police departments in America definitely included “wrangling slaves” and “making sure those free blacks don’t get too uppity” in their founding ideas.