The war on cops, another chapter

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justtrying

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I am afraid the problem is that lyrics to a country's anthem were changed in an attempt to serve a poorly defined cause.

Black lives matter? All lives matter? Based on how humans behave towards one another, no lives matter...

My recent search on the internet has revealed that racism is institutionalized. Because of this there cannot be racism against white people. However, since racism is institutionalized, no individual white person can be accused of being racist either than, can they? By that definition, an individual white person has no more power to be racist than an individual black person.
 

dannyf

Joined Sep 13, 2015
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racism is institutionalized. B
For that, you should ask what is their definition of "racism"?

The US is a country where asking equality for everyone is considered racism, asking to be judged on ones character not skin color us considered racism, ,,...

MLK, if alive today, would be called a racist under such twisted view of racism.
 

OBW0549

Joined Mar 2, 2015
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That is just sick.
Sick, racist, and a good illustration of just how far some of today's "civil rights advocates" have veered from MLK's admonition to judge people by the content of their character instead of by the color of their skin.

I fear bad times-- VERY bad times-- are ahead for us.
 

#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
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Did anyone see this article next to this one?
I've been watching sites like that for about 6 months.

That's why I was surprised the TV news said 2 people were killed last week when I knew it was four...but two of them weren't "Afro-Americans" so they didn't make the news.

That's also why I expect I'm on a terrorist watch list compiled by the NSA spying on computers.
 

justtrying

Joined Mar 9, 2011
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For that, you should ask what is their definition of "racism"?

The US is a country where asking equality for everyone is considered racism, asking to be judged on ones character not skin color us considered racism, ,,...

MLK, if alive today, would be called a racist under such twisted view of racism.
I dont ask these questions anymore. Racism is a word twisted and redefined to suit purposes of the day. It has no definition anymore. It is s word used to shut down conversations. There are many words like this now. Patriot is becoming one of them, envitonmentalist, homophobe, feminist became that word a long time ago. They are all meaningless now.

There is a simple definition in the dictionary. What I do not see in the protests is the outrage against the media coverage of the murder rate of black children in drive by shootings, the outrage at the fact that black lives do not seem to matter to black people themselves.

Where is the outrage to the disservice that affirmative action has done to their communities? I can go on and on... but maybe we should look at who is funding them
 

joeyd999

Joined Jun 6, 2011
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I dont ask these questions anymore. Racism is a word twisted and redefined to suit purposes of the day. It has no definition anymore. It is s word used to shut down conversations. There are many words like this now. Patriot is becoming one of them, envitonmentalist, homophobe, feminist became that word a long time ago. They are all meaningless now.

There is a simple definition in the dictionary. What I do not see in the protests is the outrage against the media coverage of the murder rate of black children in drive by shootings, the outrage at the fact that black lives do not seem to matter to black people themselves.

Where is the outrage to the disservice that affirmative action has done to their communities? I can go on and on... but maybe we should look at who is funding them

The purpose of 'anti-concepts' is to obliterate certain concepts without public discussion; and, as a means to that end, to make public discussion unintelligible, and to induce the same disintegration in the mind of any man who accepts them, rendering him incapable of clear thinking or rational judgment. No mind is better than the precision of its concepts.
~Ayn Rand 1965
 

JoeJester

Joined Apr 26, 2005
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From the article ...

America’s police carry microphones, dash cameras and body cameras to record their interactions with citizens, and in most states public records laws are interpreted in favor of releasing videos to the public with as little delay as is determined to maintain any criminal defendant’s right to a fair trial.
Does releasing the video ensure a fair trial or taint the jury pool? I lean towards tainting the pool.

Like all police evidence, it is preserved by police and prosecutor and shared with the defendant's attorney. Rarely is it released to the public before it is presented in court.
 

dannyf

Joined Sep 13, 2015
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"something to think about:"

Spot on.

Sadly, I don't think it is reversible.

In the end, white guilt would have destroyed america.
 

dannyf

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I have long advocated the notion that what separates the first world from the 3rd world is culture, not economics. The rise of the tigers, Japan, and then China shows that however poor a people is, they can advance quickly economically.

What separated them from the old US is a culture of Independence, self reliance, a lust for freedom and that "animal spirit".

The US has been a 3rd world country since the 1990s, killed by its welfare state, killed bybits political correctness, killed by its ever expanding government, and milled by its corrupt politicians.

Every 200 years, we need a revolution.
 
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