Rodney King
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Rodney King is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 18, 2021 and August 22, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Rodney King was just beaten up on camera, not killed”; ""Remember Rodney King?"". It most often appears alongside BLM, /b/, /sp/.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 18, 2021
- Last seen: August 22, 2025
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- BLM (1 shared issues)
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- b (1 shared issues)
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- sp (1 shared issues)
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- 4chan (1 shared issues)
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- pol (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Jones (1 shared issues)
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- American elections (1 shared issues)
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- Andes (1 shared issues)
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- Anna Khachiyan (1 shared issues)
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- Anti (1 shared issues)
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- Anti-suyu (1 shared issues)
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- Antonio Arriaga (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Rodney King was just beaten up on camera, not killed. And he was beaten up at a time when #BLM wasn't a thing, when the internet was barely a thing. But *sixty-three people died* in the resulting riots. I don't think all the violence in all the #BLM protests/riots/whatever adds up to even half that. Then Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were killed, and there was some protesting and rioting but nothing like Rodney King, then we got a dozen or two more incidents that were all over the map in terms of both video quality and egregiousness of injustice and we got levels of protest/rioting that were all over the map but uncorrelated with the cause, then we got George Floyd and for some reason we got more rioting that we'd seen since Rodney King (but not even close to that).
Only fifteen and got problems Cops on my tail, so I bail 'til I dodge 'em They finally pull me over and I laugh "Remember Rodney King?" And I blast on his punk ass