Don’t be too hard on yourself. Giving money is far more valuable and useful than protesting. On the contrary, it’s people who protest without giving money that should be questioning themselves. If you’re in any way vulnerable to COVID, stay at home.
Hey OP! Have you been over here?
Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread
This post alone has shredded the OP’s entire premise.
But he did say of course he’s a racist in his OP, so it’s not entirely shredded.
Well, yes. Unfortunately, even if the racist reasons for these particular people ending up at that strata of society are removed, there will doubtlessly remain other people at that strata who arrived there through other turns of fate besides racism. It won’t be much comfort to them to say to themselves “Well, at least I didn’t get here through racism” if they’re still targeted due to their relative inability to defend themselves and are more likely to end up dead because of it.
This is the guy who paves his own roads, puts out his own house fires, even produces his own vaccines in his basement lab, and vaccinates his own children with the hypodermic needles he manufactured himself with the plastic he created from the oil he pumped from his own well and then refined!
And if his neighbor’s road washes away, his neighbor’s house catches fire, his neighbor’s kids get smallpox, his neighbor is starving, think he’s going to lift a finger? No way, he’s tending his own garden. Because all lives matter means only mine does.
One of the ugly parts of this is that implied in some of the questioning is the *normalization *of people dying as a result of police action.
“White people die in police custody all the time and nobody complains”? well, then, dammit, COMPLAIN!! Don’t take it on faith that there must have been a justification every time. DON’T double down on “as long as I behave properly I have nothing to fear”, that is privilege speaking – and the attitude the people behind the abusive policing want to instill in the population.
Also…
Notice that in the top two tiers, there is major divergence between the percent of identified victims and the percent of that ethnicity in the general population – not even half as many among “White”, but 1.7+ times as many among “Black”.
Speaking of which, it looks like the GOP has over-ruled the president and the convention will be held in Charlotte, NC … but without any of the president’s demands met.
Are you equating “protesting” as the opposite of “obeying the law”?
To me, this looks like a big “FU” to Trump from the Republican National Committee.
They’ve told him that they control the convention - not him. And if he wants to have a big speech in front of lots of people, he can do it elsewhere.
Essentially, they have disinvited him from his own convention.
I think it’s just arrogance. They feel confident they can get their way when it comes down to it, and have the convention with as many people as they want. The governor said he couldn’t make promises; he didn’t say no. He’ll buckle before the convention.
Did you read the article?
Looks like they reduced attendance to about 12% of what they wanted.
Ah, you’re right. I missed that his acceptance speech would be held elsewhere.
Coupled with this article, it’s been an OK day, weather not withstanding.
Maybe we could do that with Trump himself? Declare him an Imminent Hazard" and force his demolition?
I can’t wait until the day that his name comes off the downtown Chicago skyscraper. It utterly ruins what should be a gorgeous view along the river from Wacker Drive. I figure that once he’s out of office, legal troubles and bankruptcy will put ownership or naming rights of that building into play, and whoever controls it will waste no time in rebranding. Mid-2022 at the latest.
There’s always… ‘The Frog-March of Shame’…
https://centurylink.net/news/read/category/news/article/newser-biden_raises_prospect_of_trump_escorted_from_white-rnewsersyn
I’m sure there’s just a different definition of what a “rule” is that I am unfamiliar with.
I’m not sure who you mean.
I mean if people are going to be openly racist and try to bait us and poke us with straw-men, intellectual dishonesty, willful ignorance, and other cheap tricks and sticks, why is it so wrong to point out that their glorious [del]Grand Wizard[/del] Leader, who supports their racist brethren and bad acts, has feet of orange clay and is tanking in the polls faster than a submarine with screen doors?
Seems only fair, as long as there are cites provided based on fact, to back the assertions up.
Hope they film it, kinda like the US Army did in Nuremberg.