My theory about the lady who nearly killed her dog while calling the cops on a reasonable birder in the park is that racists may hate black civility more than anything else. Being spoken to under the premise of equality outrages them, especially when it means a shared rule system

It also shows something about our society and animals. Animal rights is often seen as something that a lot of white liberal women go towards (PETA). This lady probs sees herself as an animal/dog lover. The guy, a black man, is punished for trying to protect animals that r free.

Are black ppl allowed to be birders? To love animals? I don't know what your definition of freedom is, but for me, it's the ability to abide by truth. This man, being conscientious, was fulfilling his duty, and had the police called on him. It's a perfect circle of oppression.

Luckily he had his phone and could record everything, but it's hard to not conceive of the total injustice on display, the system of it. The, in some ways, equalizing role of technology, as if to say, "no, we are all under the same skies with the same universal truth here."

But the fact that the lady has been punished by society after the fact does not mean there's justice. There will be justice when people can follow their life's pursuits without this kind of unhinged mania trying to foster the powers of the police to break their backs. my 2 cents.

Looks like authoritarianism and anti-democratic tendencies are correlated... put well here by @nberlat : "The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy" https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-effect-new-study-connects-white-american-intolerance-support-authoritarianism-ncna877886