Neither of which was an instance of “the left killing people who disagree with it.”
:dubious: What mirror-universe America are you living in? In this America, the Right has been successfully skewing the rules of engagement the right and making an insult of “liberal” for at least 28 years.
Fourteen replies with no mention of race and you’ve gotta bring it up?
Thanks for turning this into another race debate.:rolleyes:
Is that so. I can’t see into your head, but it seems to me that you’re the one saddled with the obsession seeing as you’re the won to bring it up.
You’ve obviously forgotten the campus riots of the late 60’s and early seventies. And the Democratic Covention in Chicago.
When was the last race riot. Its been so long ago.
I think you need to let go of this impression. Its long outdated.
Not reading the posts in your own thread very carefully, are you, Dutch? Back in post #5:
Many people disagree with you.
Screw it. I’ll answer the Op and try to wrestle this thread back onto track.
In the event of a mass Obama win in the popular vote and an electoral overturning in favor of McCain, I would not in the least be surprised to see riots, protests, and possibly outright insurrection. There are a lot of people who have been walking a razor’s edge in all aspects of their lives. Things suck, and nobody cares. The courts will back the banks, regardless of how shady the deal was. If you don’t have money, you can’t win. There are plenty of people turning to shady work just to feed their families, and many just can’t take it any longer. hell, I’d probably be out there with them. There is a huge disparity between those who just squeak along with their bills, pruning back to the bone to make ends meet, and those who don’t have many financial cares. People don’t want Order, they want Justice. Many don’t give a good goddamn any longer what is Legal, they want what is Right.
I don’t think it’s too far of a stretch to imagine this same situation in the event of significant voter fraud either. We have become extremely polarized as a country lately, and it makes for a bad climate.
And those people also think the U.S. has a Zionist Occupied Government. Less said of them the better.
I’m confused too.
Damn near a whole generation ago.
Well, a “generation” is usually considered more like 25 years, not 16.
And what about the Cincinnati riots of 2001? I’m not sure why BrainGlutton excluded those, or if he just missed them.
Like I said; idiots and scum. The majority of people supporting slavery just means that the majority of people were evil and/or fools. There’s no rule that says good has to be popular, you know.
That’s the “The idea of making excuses for bad behavior was invented in the last fifty years” argument." When someone, for example, in the Old South said that the Golden Rule justified slavery because if he was black, he’d want to be a slave, do you really think that he was doing anything but making a really transparent excuse ? When some ancient Greek warrior claimed that the strong had the right to exploit the weak, do you really think he was doing anything but making an excuse that he thought he’d never be on the wrong end of ?
No. They weren’t making excuses at all. They honestly believed that. It was taught to them from the youngest age. It was prevalent in the society they lived in. For those times, in those circumstances, it was “correct”.
We “know” that it is wrong today, but I guarantee that if you had lived then, you would have felt the exact same way.
The dissonance comes in when there is a new way of thinking coming in, sweeping away the old. That happened in the 1870’s, and again in the Civil Rights era of the 1960’s in regards to African Americans.
I am not, for the record, endorsing or agreeing with the old ways of thinking. Might does not make right, noone should own another human being. But at the same time, calling them evil for thinking that way is taking an exceedingly narrow view.
If you’d like to discuss this, we should start a new thread. We’re gonna derail this one.
No, it wasn’t. In my example of the South, they were easily sophisticated enough to know better, and slavery obviously violated their own morality; thus the excuses, and the level of craziness they reached in attempting to delude themselves about the obvious. People don’t spend so much time and effort trying to excuse evil unless they KNOW that it’s evil.
And in my example of the ancient Greeks, it was stupid to support a system that could turn around and bite you like that, regardless of morality.
Oh stop it. Nobody knows what will happen. I suspect nothing one way or the other.
Just an aside - the “generations” as defined in the context of Boomer, X, Silent, etc. have ranged as 17 to 23 year cohorts.
Carry on.
I expect riots no matter who wins.
In fact, I intend to riot no matter who wins.
Come with me! It’s fun! Get a free TV set! 
I just bought a new TV. Can I riot and loot a new stereo instead?
I need a new gaming laptop…
-XT
Warren Zevon, “Rottweiler Blues”