Trayvon Martin
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Trayvon Martin is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 18, 2021 and August 30, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “Then Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were killed”; “George Floyd (and Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown, and…) got victimized”. It most often appears alongside George Floyd, Michael Brown, BLM.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 18, 2021
- Last seen: August 30, 2021
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- George Floyd (2 shared issues)
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- Michael Brown (2 shared issues)
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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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- Acceptable Losses (1 shared issues)
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- Acceptable Losses: The Debatable Origins of Loss Aversion (1 shared issues)
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- Alex Imas (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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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).
But also: there are several giant murals of George Floyd within walking distance of my house. It sure seems people cared a lot when George Floyd (and Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown, and…) got victimized. There are lots of statistics, like “US police kill about 1000 people a year, and about 10 of those are black, unarmed, and not in the process of doing anything unsympathetic like charging at the cops”. But somehow those statistics don’t start riots, and George Floyd does. You can publish 100 studies showing how “the Identifiable Victim Effect fails to replicate”, but I will still be convinced that George Floyd’s death affected America more than aggregate statistics about police shootings.