Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen

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This narrative is injected into as many stories as it can be, whether or not the facts or data in said story support it. It's an inevitable result of elite media organizations being filled with quantitatively illiterate liberal arts graduates from elite universities. Try talking to your average Oberlin graduate sometime and see if they seem remotely humble about their knowledge of the world in proportion to their age. Put that person in a newsroom with editorial decisions delegated to click maximization algorithms. The result is this.

Somewhat related: The Irish in America earned their whiteness through cruelty to those with whom, in the Five Points for example, they’d relatively-peacefully coexisted. They saw an opportunity to get an advantage over, rather than continue to be in solidarity with, people with darker skin. Then they solidified this advantage by working in policing and politics.[0]

[0] https://www.worldcat.org/title/how-the-irish-became-white/