4819

Yeah its tough. On the one hand I dislike editing things to erase problematic elements, as it pretends the past was other than it was. On the other, there is some pretty racist shit in some of those movies.

I still am floored that Dumbo has a character pantomiming a southern black affect, and is named Jim Crow. And the whole Peter Pan Indian tribe thing? Yikes.

So while I dislike editing things out and hiding the history, I also don’t think an easily missed text blurb really covers it either.

I dunno, I wish I could trust my fellow Americans to maturely deal with those topics with their kids, but, well, gesticulates at everything 40% support for Trump?

Yeah, that ain’t going to work.

4820

The book in unambiguous, the movie just waters things down a bit.

4821
4822

But I’m sure Chauvin didn’t recognize him, since of course “they all look alike to me.”

4823

Am I the only person who went “Oh, so the cop had a grudge from working together and thought he could kill George Floyd in broad daylight and get away with it”?

4824

https://youtu.be/oh7xwI_0huM

4825

See, this kind of goes beyond simple racism, and gets at the underlying mess of tribalism that seems to be permeating a lot of the Trump folks.

There’s this messed up idea that there’s really no reason to give a shit about ANYONE, other than “your team”.

I mean, really… a reason to mourn for a guy who was murdered by police? Because he was a human who was murdered? Because that’s what normal, good people are supposed to do?

This isn’t a new idea… I always think back to John Donne’s Meditation 17, which I learned when I was around 7 years old.

No man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
as well as if a promontory were.
as well as if a manor of thy friend’s
or of thine own were.
Any man’s death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind;
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.

4826

Careful with those quotes as now it looks like None is the asshole in this scenario instead of the CEO in the story!

4827

Discourse doesn’t seem to be able to retain the integrity of the quote, aka make it look like it’s a quote within a quote which is unfortunate.

4828

A fair solution too.

4829

I figured everyone would realize that None wasn’t saying that.

4830

Everyone active in the topic now. We’ve had necros that was what… 13 years old?

4831

Kee-rist, those necros get younger and younger every year.

4832

This will piss off a lot of dumb people. Stay tuned for THE TRIGGERING!

4833

Maybe we’ll get a photo op of DJT hugging a Confederate flag.

4834

Are you fixing to get a job on DJT’s media team??

4835

I’d wait until the thing is tested in real life, I’d imagine you’re gonna get a few jokers going all “this is the battle flag of whatever state it was, not the confederate flag, totally not the same”…

4836

Among the legislative ideas being discussed: banning chokeholds, creating a national registry for police officers engaged in misconduct, and curbing no-knock warrants.

Trump has stressed to aides that it is important to him to keep most of the law enforcement community on board with whatever policing reforms the White House proposes, officials said.

4837

Of course.

4838

Trump is going to find out quickly that police unions are just like the NRA. They’re not going to be cool with “common sense” reforms. The slightest nod towards reform will earn him a huge rebuke from unions and he will back down.

He’s probably already getting calls just based on these rumors. What we will get on Thursday will be watered down to nothing. I bet there’s not even a policy attached to what will certainly just be platitudes.