If you haven’t seen this article, I think it would make for very good reading on the issue of police and race. And even challenge some of the positions people hold.
And while you are here, this Guardian article about the hypocrisy of Europe in the BLM issue and particularly George Floyd is quite good.
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Remember Rhys (Allalt)? He penned this tweet earlier today and it’s really quite good:
“I arrest more Blacks, therefore I can justify policing Blacks more and taking a less permissive approach to Blacks and… oh… would you look at that… I arrest more Blacks, therefore I can justify policing Blacks more…
Where does this cycle begin?”
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Yeah, I do. Does he still blog?
It is embedded in the culture
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He did a few posts up a couple of weeks ago, but those were the first for ages.
In Kenya, do the police target Chinese, or anyone else through profiling?
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Indians mostly, I think. We owe the Chinese so I think the police don’t want to annoy their government 🙂
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Indians? They do cop it badly, don’t they. Strangely, the Indians (in India) target Israelis. They hate them with a passion. There are even signs outside hotels, “No Israelis.”
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Most of them fear any interaction with cops. And I have never understood why they are a soft target for police harrassment.
But on a larger scale, youths suffer disproportionately in the hands of the police. And then we have a big problem of extrajudicial killings
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Same here. The police are far too trigger happy.
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Not in the US. Our cops kill ya with their knees on yer neck!
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I saw them kill the homeless guy today. Fuck. Me.
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Well, clearly, he deserved it, right? Right?
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Don’t they feel that life is now ebbing out whilst their knees are on someone’s neck?
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Don’t think the ones that do that really care much.
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I am guessing some of the more macho CRAVE that feeling. 😦
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I can’t fathom it.
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When I become President of the US this fall, I’m gonna target EVERYONE who is poor, regardless of race, and stick ’em in a gas chamber followed very quickly by a steamy trip to a crematorium. Yeah, I’m tough on the lazy poor bastards out there, but I ain’t targeting by race. Know why? OK, I’ll tellz ya! Cause of my deep Christian faith, that’s why, duh! Have a pleasant day. $Amen$
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Why not. There won’t be any Inspector Generals by then.
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And if there are, I’ll gas ’em, too! The bastards! Picking on poor Donna Trump like that! How DARE they! They hurt her wittle tenda feewlings!
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Gas ’em all
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You are an equal opportunity despiser
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Interesting information that few “white” people even know about.
Whether it’s law enforcement or any other profession, the bottom line is there are far too many people more interested in power than they are in empathy.
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Interesting and well written.
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You mean to say that reality doesn’t align with the faulty narratives being peddled by the MSM and professional race hustlers? Color me shocked!
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No. He is not saying at all that blacks don’t have it worse. Only that the problems are deeper and more fundamental than “mere” racism. But as you have made clear you have no problem with immigrants of whatever race being sodomized by cops, why do you even care, Ron?
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Link to the comment where I made such a claim or STFU!
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It’s your entire tone in every case. “I don’t care about the cause at all because looting” was one comment. I pointed out what that fundamentally means. That or “why are they so uppity”? which is the real underlying attitude here.
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Translation: I know there is no evidence to back up any of my claims, Ron, but I’ll double down on my lies and pretend no one noticed.
Response: All future comments addressed to me by Lyin’ Brian Keith Miller will be ignored
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Ron I thought it was more nuanced than you make it out
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The authors of your first article may have exercised nuance, but the mainstream Lügenpresse most definitely is not. They’re fake news through and through.
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I imagine you get your news from Hair Fueher’s twitter, Ron? Or Fox? Or are you a Sinclair Media fan?
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Very good article and makes some good points…
I think there’s the “macho guy” syndrome as well, at play.
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I thought they were really quite good.
How are you Mary? Still under movement restrictions or every place has been reopened in your hood
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Yeah, if you limit the inquiry into just police-caused fatalities, then you’ll see less of a divide. Police racism hasn’t just been about killing people, though it’s fatalities which spark the most outcry. Rather, it’s about why police show up in greater numbers to minority neighborhoods.
As far as the second article is concerned, I like how it tries to distinguish American racism from European colonialism. American racism is a vestige of that colonialism, of that need to acquire wealth more than the welfare of others. We struggle with it because the British decided in the 1600’s that indentured servitude wasn’t enough. They had to buy people from a continent they hadn’t mapped.
It doesn’t absolve me or my country from its struggles, but if fair was fair, you’d think Europe would at least have the decency to own up to its part in the whole thing. You’d think Europe would have put more investment in its former colonies and territories.
Instead, everybody gets a stained glass window and let’s call it a day.
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Sirius: Your comment gets to one of the few times I as an American get nationalistic or “patriotic” when “we” are being lectured by Europeans. 🙂
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