BLACK MAN: [impassioned, detailed account of a recent personal encounter with police brutality]
SOME CHUD:

*his blactions*

It’s like, why did his ancestors even choose to come to this country if they were going to raise a great-great-great-great grandchild who would complain about it so much?

If he didn’t run while being black this wouldn’t have been an issue. While we’re at it, why did he choose to be black anyway? He should take some responsibility for his actions.

Oh try and tell a Boomer that.

Cultural guilt inflicted through a false narrative of hippies spitting on U.S. soldiers coming home from Vietnam, which absolutely did NOT happen. Not one single verifiable time. But the story worked. And when Republican war hero on TV slurred it out in First Blood, it was propelled into the mainstream. Ah ...…

Our folks were required to have that as well. They had them but never wore them. they were kind of a PITA because there were shipping issues with that stuff. Some places wouldn’t ship it. Plus, if you flew in and out on a MIL flight, you were required to wear it, at least on take-off and landing I think. I never…

Oh I know. I got interviewed to go over there with one of the companies, they despereetly needed people for telecommunication infrastructure. Was literally insane $$$ offer, more for 8 months than I can anticipate making in any the next couple individual years, with the caveat of “we’ll provide you your own bullet…

Let’s stop calling them “military contractors.” Erik Prince is the head of a MERCENARY organization that has ZERO accountability. How the hell did this shit become legal in the U.S.?

A white person would 9/10 times “pounce on the blood in the water,” if the roles were reversed.

Oof, that’s unfortunate. I can see how she thought it was innocent since she was following up on his use of the term. She was clearly trying to just make banter and didn’t mean it in an aggressive way, but that doesn’t justify using the word at all. Gotta be better than that.

You forget; they’re all bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists.*

It’s a good read. I also signed it out of the library. It was worth the wait.

Yup. Their Southern heritage *is* racist and treasonous.

Did you read the comment you are responding to? No where in that comment did they claim that you have a confederate flag on your car. They were referring to the story of the woman at the shopping mall noted earlier. You come across as very, very defensive and more interesting in railing against “anti-intellectual…

I’m fine with the Confederate flag as long as it’s the historically accurate version.

Put a symbol of hate on your car and people will judge you accordingly. I didn’t attack you. I also didn’t engage all that screed because it seemed to boil down to “not all Southerners are racist” and it didn’t appear that I was needed for the discussion.

I’m a white Russian (always savour the chance to make that joke) and I live in UK. I’ve been to US once, anything I know about America comes from popular culture and history books. I’m a huge history buff and am very strongly against any whitewashing of dubious historical artefacts. So upon hearing of this controversy…