Exactly.
It’s the worst reason not to say something I can think of.
Especially when something like 74% of Americans agree we need serious systemic change - not incrementalism which has gotten people very little so far in regards to equality and justice.
I’ve never, to the best I can remember, bashed a whole state, or thought all the people living in some large area were bad. But there’s no doubt bad behavior is more tolerated in some places, the same way bad restaurants are, and they’re usually the same places. This guy has probably said this to nodding approval five dozen times in a small knot of people at a Chamber of Commerce meeting or down at the filling station or wherever. He’s forgotten that talking about how often you ought to be shooting people from a particular race makes eyebrows go up outside his little milieu.
Yup. Liberals really need to stop being so scared of the right-wing noise machine, recognize that anything they use will be thrown back at them…
Starting with Black Lives Matter, “What, you don’t care about white people? What about cops? What sort of horrid people are you!”
Yeah. How much bullshit have we heard about Black Lives Matter. The people though who started it stayed strong and now people get it.
This is a “Bell Curve” type argument that has some simplistic appeal to some on the right but is the apotheosis of the old saying that "there are Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Approval for BLM has increased more in the last two weeks than in the preceding two years.
These types of statements are coming out as a result of the Floyd atrocity. You would think that the Right would wish to tamp this down and try to muff it…especially since these protests have them on their back foot.
So what do they do?
They do a double-down and pour forth legions of other fascists just overjoyed to try to out-do the folks in Minneapolis…
Thus ensuring the protesters in no uncertain terms that they–and we–are on the Right Track.
It evidently made a difference to watch a white cop straight up murder a black man on the street.
That cop is like the bank robber asking for some credit or leniency due to all the banks he thought about robbing but never did.
Two words: Tulsa Oklahoma.
Thank god.
It certainly restored my faith in Americans and in humanity in general that the outrage is so general and that so many people got enlightened or are trying at least.
That’s a good rule to live by. Except for Louisiana.
Aaaand pivoting to a new adventure in race relations, Trump has just refused via Twitter to “even consider” renaming military bases named for Confederate generals etc. And it’s particularly cringey, since he called the bases Legendary, Monumental, very Powerful, Hallowed Grounds, Magnificent, and Fabled. Telling you, the boy ain’t right.
We have bigger Confederate named bases than China does.
So the name changes should be announced by Friday, then.
TPD Maj. Travis Yates also suggested that, according to his interpretation of crime data, police should actually be shooting black Americans more frequently,
in a side note TPD Major Travis Yates added that he is reviewing other career paths.
Esper will OK just to see if this is, finally, the precipitating event that causes Trump to stroke out.
Even my FOX/Limbaugh dad called George Floyd “that poor man.” I almost dropped the phone. Though Dad doesn’t like the protestors or looting.
I saw some charts the other day that show Tulsa as one of those cities that has higher than normal numbers of police killings.
Furthermore, following his own logic, if black people are more likely to be committing crimes, then it could also be that a lifetime of systemic racism leaves them poor and without any means to advance, so crime becomes a viable outlet for both anger and monetary gain.
I have the will to survive, I cheat if I can’t win, If someone locks me out I kick my way back in, And if I get aggression I give 'em two times back – The Clash
I used to have a buddy that was a fireman in a small town. He let me set fire to a donated house they were using for training.
At least that was the story he gave me.