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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Carl on December 04, 2014, 02:57:55 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025910261
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 01:49 PM
Star Member Atman (28,181 posts)
We are all wrong on Ferguson
>Written by my ol' copywriting compadre at the ad agency. Good stuff. <
We are all wrong on Ferguson
December 4, 2014 at 1:21pm
The shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer makes quite a first impression, and people all over the country reacted to the story emotionally at first. I did, too.
For members and neighbors of African-American communities all over this country who have been given generations of justifiable reasons not to trust the powers policing them, the death of another unarmed teenager at the hands of a policeman triggers real questions of justice, and they understandably empathized with Brown and his family. For police officers across the country and their families it triggers the very real fair that on any given day they could be pressed into a situation where taking a life or losing one’s own are the only options. I imagine no cop wants that, and those who understand the fine line an officer must walk and the tragic consequence of even the right choice undoubtedly felt for Wilson’s predicament.
Both reactions are fair and based on a substantial bit of truth. In an ideal world we would seek to have our collective response informed by both of them, but very quickly it became clear that our world is still far from ideal.
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Response to Atman (Original post)
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 01:55 PM
NoJusticeNoPeace (430 posts)
1. Is the author white?
Response to NoJusticeNoPeace (Reply #1)
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 01:57 PM
Star Member Atman (28,181 posts)
2. What's the problem?
You can't tell his race by his writing? Does it make a difference? Do you agree or disagree with what he wrote? That's really all that matters.
Not with you primitives.
Response to Atman (Reply #2)
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 01:58 PM
NoJusticeNoPeace (430 posts)
3. White or not?
Response to NoJusticeNoPeace (Reply #3)
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 02:01 PM
Star Member Atman (28,182 posts)
4. Why does it matter?
Express your opinion about what he wrote. When you tell me what your beef is with the article, I'll reveal his race. As if it matters.
This could be a riot. :fuelfire:
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Annnnnnd we`re off!
Response to Atman (Original post)
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 02:02 PM
NoJusticeNoPeace (431 posts)
5. Sounds like a lot of white privilege bullshit to me
for instance
I imagine no cop wants that
bullshit, some do
and then
I have no interest in calling Fox News or its viewers racist, any more than the rest of us.
I do have an interest in doing that since it is a certainty most of them are racists.
then this
And both sides are wrong; both are hyperbolic caricatures of themselves by now.
Utter ****ing bullshit...It would take me hours to list the reasons why the DA and cops in Ferguson are the epitome of racism and showing favoritism, etc.
Assuming the author is white, this illustrates the epitome of white privilege. If not white, a very very confused person.
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Uh oh.
Not wise.
Atman's stirring up the wrath of an influential lobby on Skins's island.
They'll rip him to shreds, like the Four Horsewomen of the Femapocalypse did.
It's a worthy cause, attempting to make the primitives think outside their box, but I really doubt Atman has the fortitude, the strength, the character, the wit, to withstand what he's now up against.
Probably better if a different primitive had posted this.
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Uh oh.
Not wise.
Atman's stirring up the wrath of an influential lobby on Skins's island.
They'll rip him to shreds, like the Four Horsewomen of the Femapocalypse did.
It's a worthy cause, attempting to make the primitives think outside their box, but I really doubt Atman has the fortitude, the strength, the character, the wit, to withstand what he's now up against.
Probably better if a different primitive had posted this.
In matters of gender, race, and the human butt, a good rule of thumb, lurkers, is the less said the better. For the more you say, exponentially greater is the chance of the perpetually butthurt to seize upon you and dip you in acid. No DUmmy is safe from this. You might think that Will Pitt is exempt from this rule, because he posts thousands of words a week with barely a peep, but the rub is that no one reads him.
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NoJusticeNoPeace (431 posts)
5. Sounds like a lot of white privilege bullshit to me
for instance
I imagine no cop wants that
bullshit, some do
and then
I have no interest in calling Fox News or its viewers racist, any more than the rest of us.
I do have an interest in doing that since it is a certainty most of them are racists.
then this
And both sides are wrong; both are hyperbolic caricatures of themselves by now.
Utter ****ing bullshit...It would take me hours to list the reasons why the DA and cops in Ferguson are the epitome of racism and showing favoritism, etc.
Assuming the author is white, this illustrates the epitome of white privilege. If not white, a very very confused person.
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There were Black members of the grand jury and Black witnesses, are they racist or very very confused also?
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In matters of gender, race, and the human butt, a good rule of thumb, lurkers, is the less said the better. For the more you say, exponentially greater is the chance of the perpetually butthurt to seize upon you and dip you in acid. No DUmmy is safe from this. You might think that Will Pitt is exempt from this rule, because he posts thousands of words a week with barely a peep, but the rub is that no one reads him.
All quite true.
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In matters of gender, race, and the human butt, a good rule of thumb, lurkers, is the less said the better. For the more you say, exponentially greater is the chance of the perpetually butthurt to seize upon you and dip you in acid. No DUmmy is safe from this. You might think that Will Pitt is exempt from this rule, because he posts thousands of words a week with barely a peep, but the rub is that no one reads him.
The perhaps one constant at the DUmp is unwavering,authoritarian group think.
That is what made the illiterate seabitch so funny when it posted how much the primitives all respond to rational discussion.
The mirror into their souls came from a carnival fun house.
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Leftist idiocy summed up in one post.
Response to gollygee (Reply #14)
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 02:36 PM
Star Member justiceischeap (11,706 posts)
25. I had a conversation last night with someone who brought up the "no angel"
argument and I told him that as white people who ultimately aren't directly affected by this issue (we aren't in fear of being shot while walking white), we don't have a say when the African-American community decides enough is enough. Michael Brown wasn't the first and he wasn't the last but he was the straw that broke the camel's back and it isn't our place to criticize or judge who he was or how he behaved. It is our place to support (if we're inclined to do so and I hope we all are) but not to comment on Michael Brown's worthiness as the, for lack of better word, martyr, to the community.
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Assuming the author is white, this illustrates the epitome of white privilege. If not white, a very very confused person.
There were Black members of the grand jury and Black witnesses, are they racist or very very confused also?
I think the bolded is their new code words for calling someone an "Uncle Tom". :rofl:
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Response to gollygee (Reply #14)
Thu Dec 4, 2014, 02:36 PM
Star Member justiceischeap (11,706 posts)
25. I had a conversation last night with someone who brought up the "no angel"
argument and I told him that as white people who ultimately aren't directly affected by this issue (we aren't in fear of being shot while walking white), we don't have a say when the African-American community decides enough is enough.
I don't care if the imaginary "African-American community" decides enough is enough.
The only reason they have gotten away with the shit they have done so far, is because they have only attacked themselves. But make no mistake: if black, brown, yellow, red, or white people try to take their pound of outrage out of me, my family, or my property, they'll quickly learn the cost of their poor judgment.
Michael Brown wasn't the first and he wasn't the last but he was the straw that broke the camel's back and it isn't our place to criticize or judge who he was or how he behaved.
That's the way, DUmbass. Don't call the thug a thug. Deny that St Swisher of Sweets reaped what he sowed, and he would be walking around today, stoned, with his pants around his ankles, if his mama had taught him this simple rhyme:
Don't rob,
Don't loot,
Don't hit the po-lice,
And he won't shoot.