I’m not seeing that in this post.
I believe it’s referring to monstro’s 2nd link: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9435036&postcount=42
Yes, exactly. HNS’s words reproduced below, with my bolding, to answer your question, Little Nemo.
Press conference.
Gov Walz said all the right words with conviction, including a promise of swift justice re. the *murder[/]. Yes, he came out and called it for what it was.
Atty Gen asked people to not react to the Minnesota National Guard the way they might react to the police.
All good words by both of them.
Other functionaries then spoke about protecting people and property, with no mention of the great need to protect people from the police.
Walz started the question period by noting that he does not want things to go back to the old normal but he did not specify the need to protect black and other visible minorities from the police. He acknowledged tension between the people and the police is a well known thing and that he expected swift justice. He said that what Trump said was not helpful.
Reporter asked about deep reform. Public Safety Commissioner Harrington had nothing of substance.
When asked about why the police officer who killed George Floyd had not been arrested, Harrington replied: protocol. (A few minutes after the press conference, Harrington disclosed that Derrick Chauvin has been arrested.)
The Governor said something along the lines of Now let’s see what we can do to clean up police culture. That will be one hell of a job.
All in all, the press were far more focused on safety on the streets than they were about about the substantive issue of what must be done to ensure that blacks and other visible minorities are not treated as inferiors and are not routinely killed by police.
IMHO, Walz seems like he gets it, but get rid of Harrington.
Usually one thinks of a failed state as being some shithole impoverished country ruled by force. Where the USA stands out is that it fails to recognize that for a great many of its people it is a failed state, with severe race based economic disparity, the highest incarceration rate in the world (with with blacks being grossly disproportionately represented), and open season for killing blacks, with it’s president wanting to start shooting.
I posted the above in the wrong thread. Please delete it.
Seems relevant to this thread. I’m glad to have read it.
I think a person would have to be naive to take her word for it that she honestly believes it is OK for a person to choose to not fit into the society they live in. I didn’t buy it then, and I definitely don’t buy it now.
So, wait. You’re saying there’s nothing wrong with the post in question, but you just don’t believe her? 
I believe what Little Nemo is saying is that you can’t say “Not there’s anything wrong with it!!” in one post right after saying “There’s something wrong with it!” and expect people to think you’re some open-minded, non-judgy person. You’re choosing to put more stock in the second comment than the first. Little Nemo and I are considering the whole message.
I’m saying I don’t believe her when she says she doesn’t have a problem giving their child an “ethnic” name. I’m saying I didn’t believe that bullshit when she posted it then and I definitely don’t believe it now.
Ok. Look, I read those two posts in isolation, and read them at face value. I’m not going to go read through some 10+ year-old thread to suss out context and subtext and form an opinion on if she was honest or not. I’m happy to drop this tangent.
Good. Thanks.
I think you just described the vast majority of republicans.
Aye!
(to steal a line from Snowboarder Bo)
The deeper problem is that she distinguishes between normal and ethnic names. There are no non-ethnic names.
Christian Cooper was actually much more forgiving of the womanthan many people might have been of a person whose nearly psychotic deranged lies in response to a minor confrontation might have gotten him killed.
He’s had a Wikipedia article since 2006.
I agree with Christian Cooper: not every white person who makes an error in judgment or overreacts or has a moment of fleeting racism needs a complete take-down, and I’ve said that before. I don’t think every white woman who overreacts and calls the police on his/her black neighbor needs to be sacked from a career position. I get that companies are doing it to protect their reputation, but that actually in some ways compounds racism because when someone feels unfairly attacked, rather than accepting an incident as a ‘teachable moment’ they see themselves as victims and double down on whatever thoughts and biases they had before.
But I have absolutely zero sympathy for Amy Cooper. What she did wasn’t just an overreaction; it was a deliberate weaponization of status and race. And if the accounts of former acquaintances is true, she just seems like a straight up nasty bitch.
Yes, I know it’s the New York Post, but it seems credible thus far.
To think that someone was in a position of power at a major financial firm is chilling. At least that’s one rotten egg removed from the dozen.
The officer in Minneapolis who killed George Floyd is being charged with 3rd degree murder and manslaughter.
From here: Murder in the 3rd Degree – Rivers Law Firm
About time.