America is burning

Started by Kon, May 28, 2020, in Life Add to Reading List

  1. Guma
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    May 28, 2020
    Koolo chanelling his inner @JMG
     
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  2. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 28, 2020
    just to be clear, what are you arguing, exactly: that when people assembled peacefully and were tear gassed and had concussion grenades thrown at them they should have saluted the cops and gone home? trying to understand what such a mature, reasonable perspective would look like
     
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  3. Oldboy
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    I dont mean all black people are criminals. I mean the ones who did the looting are and most likely they are bunch of c---- who use riots as an excuse to steal. They dont rly care about the protest nor Floyd
     
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  4. Oldboy
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    Why are we jumped between both ends of the extremes here? It doesnt have to be flowery all stand in line nor lets f---ing torch a store
     
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  5. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

    May 28, 2020
    So you're going to go full blown racist here?

    Do you know why "black people have records"? Because they have never been able to gather generational wealth due to three centuries of enslavement, one century of legal segregation, and 50 years of status quo segregation. They were forced into communities with poor schooling, public access, and as a result have struggled to reach the middle class as a race. Poverty drives crime.
     
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  6. Guma
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    Yeah I know. It just sounded like something JMG would say and some people take suggesting something like this as racism.
     
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  7. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    May 28, 2020
    They are an emotional response but regardless if they are intended to be strategic or not, it’s foolish to suggest the U.S. would have progressed this far, this fast if we all just held hands, marched & sang Kumbaya.
     
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  8. Oldboy
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    Again. Lets stop anime plots and come down to earth. If u take a second u would realize what i meant
     
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  9. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 28, 2020
    this is where it becomes obvious you don’t know what you’re talking about. the cops routinely take peaceful protests and escalate them
     
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  10. Oldboy
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    Because of white guilt. We are forced to think that why in order “not to be racist”. Horrible
     
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  11. Guma
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    Yeah, that's my take too.
     
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  12. Oldboy
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    Im not gonna pretend to know more than you on us protest. But i do know this wont solve anything

    this is like the time Narsh was happy innocent cops were getting killed
     
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  13. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

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    “innocent cops”
     
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  14. Oldboy
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    Btw what are ur honest take if cops did get killed for this?
     
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  15. Oldboy
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    Hahaha i guess your right. All cops are guilty

    this is why germany killed jews Paul. They thought they were all guilty

    do u not understand?
     
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  16. RetiredAccount
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    RetiredAccount Big Time Stuntin Like My Daddy

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    what you meant was painfully clear. You are stereotyping the black rioters as thugs and felons in order to serve your narrative while ignoring the history and societal pressures that causes a demographic containing 13% of the population to churn out 40% of felons.
     
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  17. lil uzi vert stan
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    "stealing a tv" and someone being shot death while trying to loot are two diff things too no?

    what are u even arguing here lol.

    i know this is threading a needle, especially online where its this weird zero sum game but here me out: you can view the gov/police's response as gross injustice, but also decry mob mentality and crippling economic violence WHILE ALSO understanding why riots happen. again, not appreciating the long term neg impacts of these riots, or the community bruises that are left behind bc it feels righteous to safely encourage them afar is short sighted. tragedy shouldnt begat tragedy.
     
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  18. Oldboy
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    Not at all. I said ppl who looted stores probabpy had a record. U decided to paint all rioters with that brush
     
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    May 28, 2020
    oh my god you LUNATIC lollllllllll

    yes, cops are a race, koolo, not a group of buzzcuts who have a legal monopoly on force and continuously use it to murder w relative impunity
     
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  20. RetiredAccount
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    All cops are guilty yes. Because even the "good cops" fail to stand up to the bad ones. This is the actual real life poisoned apple scenario. The cops who do try and stop the corrupt cops are often victimized, bullied, and even left to die.
     
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