&gt; certainly casting it as baseless paranoia<p>But that&#x27;s exactly what this blog post does. It&#x27;s like this is actually propaganda which was created to paint the author as paranoid.<p>He doesn&#x27;t tell any real reasons for being afraid, he doesn&#x27;t seem reasonable and rational at all. He comes to the encounter with preconceived notions and doesn&#x27;t even try to doubt.<p>Police brutality and racism are awful issues, and posts like that do real harm because they paint them as paranoid delusions.