David Shuey
2 min readDec 17, 2016

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FYI — so anecdotally I can tell you that nearly everyone I’ve talked to when informally asked believe more than 50% of the people (some think 90%) cops kill are African American. Of course, we know The Washington Post and The Guardian say it’s closer to 25%. They’re shocked, just like my Uber driver last night in San Francisco driving me to Oakland. She is — like me — very upset about a Trump’s presidency, blames it on sexism, and says how we all need to “protect each other.” But also said she doesn’t care for Black Lives Matter as a term and says All Lived Matter. Tho many will say both terms work, and I avoid the “Matter” wars, I think there should be some polling to see if it affected how they voted. And polling if people knew the % and then we could see his the mainstream media is failing us.

We live in distortion bubbles. There’s racism. But I can tell you as I arrive in Berkeley: the far Left can be nearly as whacked out with disinformation as the far Right. In fact, the first anti-Clinton chalk graffiti about her sounding like WW3's eminent creator I found here. Can’t find it on my phone, but it did grow like these cacti.

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David Shuey

Writer. Researcher. Designer. Human seeking better outcomes for all. Empiricism, relevant facts, and logical arguments > simple narratives.