My first reaction to this was to try to understand, but after seeing all the lies about his incident here on the Root and elsewhere, I’ve stopped caring. This is a completely justified use of deadly force, in this case to save the life of a black person. And still we get all this bitching and victimization. Fuck it. I…
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Came here seeking to understand. Had the officer not acted, the woman in pink would have been stabbed. She’s Black too. Does his action to save her not count for anything? (leaving aside action-movie ideas like using a baton to knock the knife out of her hand. You try hitting a fast-moving target with a baton in a…
How convenient of you to restrict your criteria to the last 30 years when something like 75% of terrorist attacks in the 70's and 80's were by left-wing groups in support of Marxist-style ideologies. They declined when global Communism was defeated by...wait for it...the right. You’re welcome. You might wanna keep an…
You know, this pipe bombing thing is a lot like the Steve Scalise shooting, except...lemme think....oh yeah, Steve Scalise was ACTUALLY SHOT and nearly killed by a crazed leftist, instead of just receiving a “suspicious package.” Good thing Auntie Maxine is around with her calming rhetoric like “you cannot be civil”…
“It’s one thing to claim that a person’s strongly-held views are informed by nothing at all, but entirely another to imply that they’re completely on auto-pilot. That is dehumanization, a way of reconceiving your enemies as objects, pawns, strawmen, tools. At best, dismissing large swaths of people you disagree with…
Good. Justice for Botham Jean next.
Verdict = guilty of 2nd degree murder plus 16 counts of aggravated battery
So a Jew who’s libertarian on gay marriage and weed legalization and spends most of his time traveling around the country defending the First Amendment is a fascist now. Just a BRILLIANT take. Well done.
According to Dr. King, nothing. Confronting my white friends when they say racist stuff IRL or on social media, donating to charities that help disadvantaged communities, pressuring my elected officials for change when some f*cked up thing like this happens in my community. But none of it really involves personal…
What trend? The trend of law enforcement shootings of unarmed people (including unarmed black people) has been in decline since 2015. The data isn’t kept by any govt agency (that’s a problem) but WaPo has been compiling the numbers since 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.cOm/investigations/fatal-police-shootings-of-unar…
Huh? I’ve never apologized for anything, completely stand by everything I’ve said, and have zero f*cks to give if you think I’m an asshole.
The 100M is my completely unscientific estimate of the number of “white moderates” in the US. There are 200M white people, and let’s say half of them hate racism but don’t take personal risks to stop it, which would more or less meet Dr. King’s definition. It seems to me that white moderates, while not marching in the…
“white moderates...are the biggest detriment to racial justice .... even more than the bed sheet wearing Klukkers and Nazis....”
I’m trusting that Mr. Harriot is a grownup and can handle a little directness. Some of the snowflake commenters on his article, maybe not so much. At any rate, this has been fun. Everyone will be pleased to know I’m out.
“But we are able to jump into Guyer’s shoes and rationalize her actions as easily and absentmindedly as we turn the light switch off when leaving a room even if someone is in there.”
Yeah. I usually find that if someone is with me on something but not with me in EXACTLY THE WAY THAT MEETS 100% OF MY CRITERIA, it’s best to tell them to STFU. Excellent way to win people over to your point of view. How’s that working?
I’m in 100% agreement with everything you just said. So is every white person I know. From what I can tell, so is the mainstream media and even a good portion of the right-wing media. The outrage on this is near-universal.
Appreciate that, thanks.
Well said, and I’ll admit that it’s easy to get defensive about stuff one perceives as non-factual in a piece like this one. You’ve provided some good food for thought. Also I think this is the first time I’ve ever been called a Klansman (not by you), and new experiences are always interesting. Cheers.
You’re more outraged about my posting than you are about the horrific injustice that was done to Mr. Jean? Pretty cold.