Please use the existing moderation tools. If someone is bothering you, Discourse gives you plenty of options without having to appoint yourself threadcop or publicly calling on someone to be banned.
(And for the record, he’s gone. Unfortunately, I think we indulged him for probably about 20 posts too many.)
-Tom
Cops been fucking with poor people since forever. Not likely that changes any time soon. Until black poverty is dealt with this will never go away. So much energy is being put into the racism angle. To acheive what, sensitivity training? They are cops. Think like a thief, catch a thief.
I might be an asshole for saying this, but much of the outrage I see looks more like selfish instant gratification than anything else. Sure, racism from cops alive today is a horrible problem, but it ain’t the root cause of all this.
Tom.
In normal times, I am so very on board with this sentiment.
These are not normal times.
As the only other asshole who’s been banned recently in this thread, I dunno who is looking to get behind my nonexistent authority as threadcop.
Anyway. Let’s all move on to how neither my city nor yours is hopefully not going to be on fire tonight.
Thank you. I’m watching your city get looted right now. The shit sandwich 2020 has brought is really quite something. Sucks you had to deal with even more.
Fucking hell. Curfew was also extended to start at noon today, which had the effect of driving away all the people who were coming downtown to help clean up after last night’s destruction.
I hope there are a metric assload of journalists getting arrested tonight and the police get sued to hell for trying to pull this shit.
Yet, strangely, they don’t seem to kill the poor white people with nearly the frequency. Maybe there’s something wrong with this analysis?
It is, actually, the root cause of this.
Nesrie
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It’s not just poverty. I promise you middle class and rich black people also face the same problem.
Menzo
2865
Clearly what we have here is a mentally unstable man unable to control his strong feelings of economic anxiety about ANTIFA.
I think he deserves a second chance.
You kidding me? You ever hear of the country Moldova? Cops rounded up all the homeless a few years back and wacked them. Skin color wasn’t a part of that. Poor people vs. police has been a violent theme throughout history.
I’m not saying that racist cops don’t murder blacks just because they’re black. No doubt many have. I’m saying the larger problem which will lead to cops killing even more blacks ad infinitum is poverty and I think more attention should be given to it. That’s all.
I’m very upset about the massive boner the CBS reporter on the feed I’m watching has for the hnnnnnnnng military yessssss police ooooooooh strong men here.
How very dismissive of you. Guess you didn’t like the idea that ending black poverty would do more to stop cops killing blacks than most anything else. I guess that makes you American. Welcome fellow countryman.
I’m sure the Moldovans would, if they had an underclass with darker skin tone. But they don’t, so I don’t really understand the point here.
You and me both. Cutting off the media is some dark stuff. I’m sure the mayor, chief and governor will all have properly furrowed brows when discussing the decision after the fact, but it’s just purely @#$%ed up.
Take a look at the percentage of black Covid deaths vs the total and watch The Wire.
It feels righteous to rail against some random white racist shitbag cop, but it seems to me there is a much bigger problem here and nothing will change until it is addressed. I’m sick to death of these stories and hope someday it will change. I have no idea how that will happen though. Probably talking about it is a start, but I gotta say, it’s such an emotional topic, people would rather throw shit. Words. Chairs.
Probably I should stay out of this thread.
Or, maybe, not insist that the racism is basically a distraction from the ‘real problem’, and maybe don’t imply that your interlocutors are really just engaging in masturbation? You might find that people agree with you that poverty is also a big problem, but you’re never going to get to that conversation.
I’m sure you can find an all lives matter subreddit that will be happy to house your contributions to the discourse.
Wtf are you trying to do here, dude?
Lantz
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I think that the reason that you are getting the responses that you are getting is because most of us know that the poverty is a result of the systemic racism and not the reverse.
Minorities are not being attacked, marginalized, disenfranchised, etc because they are poor but a great deal are poor because they are attacked, marginalized, disenfranchised, etc.
The amount of shit that successful/wealthy/famous minorities have to deal with is a lot more than most poor white Americans.
