For today's college kids, the Rodney King beating seems mild and unremarkable

What are ownership rates of cell phones (with video cam) in the general populace these days? And nobody’s saying that plenty of beatings weren’t happening back then. But when it all can get captured and uploaded and broadcast so easily, yeah. Those weird little survival mechanisms that filter our perceptions so we can handle our environment’s influx of stimulus without melting down under all the stressors…Crazy. Fasinating. Problematic.

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