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You have lousy luck. But how is any of this relevant to what we're discussing?Quote:
Originally Posted by gogobongopop
Should I put on velvet gloves in a discussion on systemic racism because of whom I am addressing? Really, sorry for you Gogo, but unlike people in your condition "we" do get told to our faces that we're disgusting, don't belong or just plain should die. First reflex if we run into trouble is if we couldn't have avoided it by not being uppity. Lewk's standard reaction to dead niggers is that they had it coming for whatever arcane reason is at hand. For a good part of my life I have heard religious leaders blaming the HIV epidemic on the sin that is my existence. Fags with "the gay cancer" first of all deserved it and second brought it upon themselves for fucking each other up the ass.
When was the last time someone implied that you were to blame for being ill?
We can only hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
I'm not sure they actually shot at him. I had an incident like this and it looks more like an accident than intentional. I doubt even double glazing would stop a bullet if it got hit in an angle less than 90 degrees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Most of what was being fired was pepper and rubber bullets. Combined with it being a courthouse construction and I wouldn't expect the window to shatter. It's just the police being dicks and trying to intimidate the public.
What a bizarre response. It's relevant because I'm responding and defending myself to more insulting attacks from you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
You seem very slow of understanding; your questions are offensive and you are just piling it up by equating your personal story with the systemic discrimination of minorities. It doesn't even come close buddy.Quote:
Originally Posted by gogobongopop
And you may think my answer is bizarre, but in my reality the question what you did wrong to have cancer would be run of the mill.
I don't think my question was offensive.
You've done nothing but make incorrect assumptions about me based solely on the colour of my skin. If anyone is offensive and racist here it's you.
You used trendy nebulous buzzwords and thlen got all pissy about me interpreting then in a slightly different way to you. Everything I've said is relevant to the assumptions and claims you've made about me.
You're question is not offensive Gogo. Its also perhaps moot, but that's another subject.
It certainly seems that in the USA the Police are violent out of control thugs. Eric Cartman with a gun screaming "respect my authoritah" while shooting at and attacking anyone who gets in there way. A lot of the time, far too often, they're black men. But equally they're prepared to violently assault black or white women, or 75 year old white men.
Tackling the violence against one group should also tackle it against the others. Doing nothing isn't acceptable.
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Originally Posted by RandBlade
Yes, I agree that an argument can be made for this. You and Aimless have given me food for thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Urgh "Your" not "You're", bloody phone typing.
When this BLM started I was a lot more defensive for US Police in general seeing the incidents as symptomatic of violence in America as a whole. I don't know if you've noticed Aimless, but not making this argument anymore. Its clear something is very wrong in America with their Police specifically - more than just American violence in general. The Police are too willing to resort to violence.
Agreed, it was not offensive.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Raab is an idiot. He should be sacked for that.
How nice that you guys agree it wasn't offensive. That's really relevant.
I wouldn't consider it offensive, but it's not harmless either. It's more along the lines of a confirmation for why.
That's ... an utterly bizarre thing for a Foreign Secretary to say. How to paint yourself as completely out of touch. :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Aimless
Yes, I'd agree. I was aware that the question might be provocative, which is why I tried to caveat it. Nevertheless I thought it was important and interesting; but perhaps more in relation to the UK protests than the US.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Well....it's not that bizarre when you consider our previous FS was Boris Johnson. And it's not that bizarre when you consider that it's Dominic "We are, and I hadn't quite understood the full extent of this, but if you look at the UK and if you look at how we trade in goods, we are particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing" Raab saying it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timbuk2
UK (and other non-US) protests are joining in on the bandwagon and as much to do with people being bored after months of lockdown as it does what's actually going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by gogobongopop
The Police here are nothing like the Police in the USA.
The US is five times the UK population but I believe its the case that the US Police kill more people in one year than the UK Police have ever killed in the past 150 years put together.
In 2018 the UK Police killed 3 people (all terrorists IIRC) while their US counterparts killed a thousand.
Not harmless and harmful is kind of the same for people who would use the word offensive to describe that kind of language.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
It makes the difference between a man choking another man to death and a deeply racist law enforcement agency killing another black man on trivial grounds. Should 'we not overreact' or should we burn down the police station and demand real change.
Every day we waste on that discussion is another day the system can kill again.
Choking a man to death for 8 minutes and 46 seconds is inexcusable and repugnant and demands serious action no matter the motive.
Whether he did this because he was a racist or he did this because he was a petty little man on an ego trip wanting his authoritah respected and his victims skin colour didn't matter is somewhat moot. Something has to change.
Mind boggling. You are part of the problem.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/u...lls/index.htmlQuote:
Atlanta (CNN)Hours after a fired police officer was charged with felony murder for fatally shooting a man in the back, Atlanta police officers are not responding to calls in three of the department's six zones, multiple sources within the Atlanta Police Department said.
Though the department denied that was the case, a police union director backed CNN's sources' accounts and said that, in some instances, officers were refusing to leave their precincts unless a fellow police officer required backup. He expects more officers to miss work Thursday, he said.
"If you don't let us murder people, we won't do our jobs". Absolutely pathetic.
And why do people insist on calling this phenomena 'blue flu' when 'swine flu' is right there?
Because swine insinuates they have Pride Integrity and Guts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steely Glint
Three of the cops were POC, how can you insist that its racial? Makes no sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
If they aren't willing to find murder committed by their colleagues to be something meriting objection or action on their part, why should we think they wouldn't ignore racism?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewkowski
Demanding action is part of the problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hazir
So you'd be OK with the Police committing murder so long as it isn't racially motivated? I'm not, whether its racially motivated or not the problem needs dealing with.
Clearly needed more training in how to not get caught:
https://portcitydaily.com/local-news...ait-free-read/
More fapping material for our resident sad sack:
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https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...st/3248440001/
Stormtroopers cracking down on violins in the streets:
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Good article on how US police became increasingly "militarized"....along with crappy data collection/oversight.
Over several decades, the 1033 program has shipped over $7.4 billion of Defense Department property to more than 8,000 law enforcement agencies.
https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon...-1033-program/
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There was a time, not long ago, when nothing would've happened to these disgusting thugs.
Lewk's heroes enabling rape. No punishment.
https://kfor.com/news/norman-pd-inve...t-to-rape-her/Quote:
Norman police say they are investigating after a city councilwoman claims her neighbor was raped by a stranger who had the wrong woman, meaning to rape her.
Norman Police Department's internal affairs unit is investigating allegations against two officers. These officers are accused of sharing personal information online about a city councilwoman. This all stems from a now-deleted Facebook post over the weekend where city councilwoman Alexandra Scott said she was the intended target of an alleged sexual assault involving her neighbor. Scott was also concerned about her address being leaked online and said it was done by police officers.
https://www.news9.com/story/5efe6166...al-information
Remarkable cultural difference between the USA and UK. In the USA leaking the address of Councilwomen to rape them, in the UK the address for most Councillors is public domain information in the first place - its on the ballot paper in elections.
Not really a difference, RB. Where I live local elections have candidate addresses on the ballot as well, and I imagine it's in the public domain for any elected official because of residency requirements.
Just imagine how bad the stuff the police do that they actually feel the need to hide is.
ACAB
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The US is a third-world shithole:
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