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- imbecile10
BLM street painting from above
https://twitter.com/MurielBowser…
- drgs0
So why are people racists?
Desegregation of the 1950s was based on the premise that racism was a consequence of lack of culture and poor education. However, the luminaries of behavioral biology have established that racism has nothing to do with upbringing, IQ or education.
By and large racism has no more convictions or conscious choice than for example homosexuality. It's just that there is a biological mechanism fixed by evolution: when you see a stranger, be alert, who knows what he has on his mind.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/…
In the brain it is the amygdala which is responsible for recognizing friend or foe. Those with less developed amygdala will only get a minor sense of discomfort at the sight of a stranger, and those who who have overdeveloped amygdala are "literally shaking". There is also the prefrontal cortex which moderates the amygdala, which is basically what I described in my previous post (controlling the sinful urges), and those with sloppy prefrontal cortices are consequently more racist, so maybe IQ does have a play in this, but not directly.Interestingly, the bonding hormone oxytocin can also make you racist (not by making you more hostile towards POCs directly, but by making you favor your own kin more, I think married men with children tend to be more racist)
https://time.com/49399/oxytocin-…Bad news is amygdala fears are at firmware level together with spiders and reptilians. Good news is it can be patched. There was a study done on American recruits, which I cannot find, which showed that recruits who served together with POCs were void of racist attitudes than those who served in white-only squads.
Basically, like with any irrational fears, which are either installed by default or imprinted in childhood, phobias can be overcome/whitelisted by exposure.
Tl;dr: racism is not learned -- it must be unlearned. This problem is especially difficult because it requires you to overcome the stubborn nature of your biology, which lags 10000 years behind where the society is today.Hence the notorious school busing. A good idea in principle -- to mix children when they are still young, before the stereotypes are set for life, but difficult to execute. All this is complicated.
This is also why I keep nagging about segregated student dorms, the most murderous phenomenon possible today and orthogonality opposite of what Americans should be doing. In two generations from now you will have more racism than during slavery.
Discuss
- Discuss!pango
- We go full debate on this onedrgs
- Them's a lot of words for "Most humans are tribalist, until they're not".Nairn
- As you all know, the loudest homophobes are latent homosexuals, who suppress their sexuality.
Similarly, I have a theory that individualsdrgs - with unpatched amygdala, who are controling their racist urges with raw willpower (=prefrontal cortex), have the greatest feeling of guiltdrgs
- and therefore a greater need to seem as anti-racist. They are also the loudest, most mouthfoaming fighters of racism.drgs
- It goes both ways, sort of the opposite of this: https://nymag.com/in…drgs
- Whenever there is a conflict between amygdala and prefrontal cortex there is neuroticism -- BLM for short.drgs
- Just kidding, but seriously, if the BLM movement is mainly guilt-driven, its bad news, because it will eventually culminate in some form of sadistic fascism.drgs
- the amygdala controls all emotional responses saying it can be 'patched' is like saying you can end racism by turning off the TVkingsteven
- Get yourself black friends and spend time with them, that's all. Most people in urban areas have been through that and are "vaccinated"drgs
- which is why your last assumption is so off... you can unlearn racism, but it has nothing to do with stimulation of the amygdala.kingsteven
- But its worse if you grew up in some rural predominately white areadrgs
- in a general sense control of amygdala = emotional maturity.kingsteven
- https://www.reddit.c…drgs
- i fully endorse meditation as a method to reduce racism and general reactionary fuckery in the world.kingsteven
- and hard drugskingsteven
- I enjoy reading these contrarian takes but have you considered possibility that the side that wants to build a giant wall to keep the scary foreigners out mightyuekit
- be the ones with "overdeveloped amygdala"?yuekit
- I think there is even science backing this up actually...yuekit
- https://www.ncbi.nlm…yuekit
- https://qz.com/12389…yuekit
- They have the biggest, veiniest amygdalas, throbbing with justice!drgs
- "greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala"yuekit
- So yeah you're onto something here but unfortunately it shakes out exactly the way you'd expect.yuekit
- "the size of the bilateral amygdala, which governs emotions, survival instincts, and memory, was strongly correlated with support for the existing social order"drgs
- Nairn, what drugs suppress amygdala?
https://clinicaltria…
"MDMA will increase mPFC, but decrease amygdala"drgs - that was me ha:
https://www.ncbi.nlm…kingsteven - Lololol at “I have a theory”nb
- Just thought of a great analogy. All children are born as fussy eaters. With age they learn what foods they like/are ok to eat.drgs
- This is an universal evolutionary strategy: You are born with "Deny from all" and gradually you whitelist things which are safe.drgs
- Not the other way around (accept all and gradually blacklist things which are bad).
From evolutionary perspective the first strategy was better.drgs - Same with people who seem strange or new.drgs
- Amygdala is the .htaccessdrgs
- You're now conflating the amygdala with the entire function of the brain.kingsteven
- All children aren't born as fussy eaters though.fadein11
- Don't show them where you keep Tide podsdrgs
- "the loudest homophobes are latent homosexuals",
true.i_was - hey drgs, your analogy about fussy eating children is the biggest load of ignorant bullshit I've read today, congratsmonospaced
- it implies people are racist by nature, which if you have children, you know is absolute bullshit ... racism is 100% taughtmonospaced
- It's NOT an evolutionary strategy. You just made that up.monospaced
- https://www.parents.…drgs
- https://www.utoronto…drgs
- "Lee, a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, says that lack of exposure to other races may be the cause."drgs
- The fuck did we just discussed for 40 subnotes?drgs
- actually the subnotes are mostly you and people telling you you're wrong. this was all discussed in depth when obama said "children are not born racist" yearskingsteven
- ago, the idea of race bias in babies is well known but it has no connection to racism as adults (other than to say we naturally fear what we don't know)kingsteven
- yes, and my message about "whitelisting" the unknown somehow got lost in the discussion?drgs
- We are not discussing how we want things to be. Do you agree or disagree with me -- has nada effect on how amygdalas work. All we can do it to understanddrgs
- Nature is indifferent to our sentimental snot chewing, what is racist, politically incorrect, and how we wished things should have been instead.drgs
- I wish the same things as you do, the only difference is that I understand that there is no one to care about these wishesdrgs
- BLM is raw human nature turned inside out, which we cannot control one tiniest bit, only observe from distancedrgs
- Like rectal prolapsedrgs
- I stopped reading at the end of the first paragraph. Did a white man write this?Maaku
- You do realise your theory is embraced by BLM too? race is more than the colour of skin, it's a social construct that is learned.kingsteven
- the amygdala is interconnected to every part of the brain, it coordinates all emotional responses, it does not act independentlykingsteven
- the analogy of flavours is only relevant because children don't even have fully developed taste buds until they are 6 months +kingsteven
- babies do not require salt, so they aren't born with that facility. it's the same with the amygdala - beyond what is evolutionarily required to survive requireskingsteven
- reason - and this is why kids should be exposed to kids of other races. but it requires a lot of enforcement of race bias to make a racist.kingsteven
- my niece ate olives until she turned 6, started school and found out her friends don't like them. racism is not so simple :Dkingsteven
- Amygdala is a bit more high-functioning than just flavors: its more about what type of berries will poison you and which will not.drgs
- It is more evolutionary advantageous to be a skeptic by default, and only put things in your mouth if your parents say its ok.drgs
- This was relevant 100 000 years ago, now not so much, but the stubborn flesh will make sure this continues to work for thousands of years to comedrgs
- Similarly with neighboring tribes. Some are friendly, some are at war with you. By default skepticism makes sure that you survive.drgs
- Again an atavism, not relevant, so its your job as a parent to teach the kids to whitelist all other races/phenotypes.drgs
- I disagree that babies are “born racist”. “Estimating the threat level of a new person” is being incorrectly bandied about as interchangeable with “racism” herescarabin
- I do agree that time spent with other races may dissolve racist impulses but toddlers don’t give a flying fuck about the color of each other’s skinscarabin
- That shit is learned behavior from the family and people it’s raised aroundscarabin
- Drgs is saying he's racist and he can't help it.pango
- To a baby everything is ALREADY whitelisted and threats require blacklisting. Just look at all the crap they put in their mouths to investigatescarabin
- Racism is learnedscarabin
- If you start eating every random shit that grows on the ground (in nature, not your kitchen), you will be dead within the first day. This is self-explanatory.drgs
- Correct. That’s what parents are for. To teach them what’s dangerous. In the wild as well as with humansscarabin
- Also i never said babies EAT everything, just that they put it in their mouths to investigate because they don’t know better yet. It’s still whitelisted to themscarabin
- If a baby was born with everything blacklisted it would hate everyone and everything and that’s just not the casescarabin
- And nothing would go in their mouths because everything is a threatscarabin
- First article in google http://www.bbc.com/e…drgs
- Scarabin, you're describing the world as you want it to be, not how it is.
https://www.newscien…drgs - I’m not even talking about food, i’m talking about investigation. Picking up sharp things, touching ovensscarabin
- This article says food neophobia kicks in around 2nd or 3rd birthdays and i would argue that they have developed eating preferences by thenscarabin
- Drgs, The kids in that study were aged 5 to 17. PLENTY of time to learn racial bias.scarabin
- So, if I was to attack the problem at it's root -- how is racial bias learned?drgs
- I think you’re right that exposure is critical, growing up ONLY around people of a certain type creates a preference toward that typescarabin
- Those things become what’s “normal”. I just mainly disagree about the baby thing. I think it happens a bit laterscarabin
- And more subtly than some might suspectscarabin
- Anyway, I will agree to the following:
1) both whitelisting and blacklisting is possibledrgs - 2) there is some level of initial fear, which is lower than if a subject is blacklisted, and higher than if whitelisteddrgs
- I absolutely agree that segregated dorms will only reinforce biasesscarabin
- Thank you scarabin.monospaced
- All people are racist at firmware level
https://www.youtube.…drgs
- grafician8
"BREAKING: The NBA just announced that all basketball arenas will he turned into 2020 voting locations.
Ample space for large amounts of people to vote safely."
- BeautifulRamanisky2
- This is how you lead. I expect all sports to do the same in the coming days and weeks. Because why not?grafician
- +1. Silver came on heavy from the jump. Immediately had to deal with Sterling, and set a good pace.garbage
- shellie8
Kenny Smith just took off his mic and walked off the set of Inside the NBA on TNT.
- These are grown up men, real men, decent men, how can you do your job with all this injustice around, ffsakegrafician
- And yes, when all sports gets shutdown, people notice and should noticegrafician
- This should be done across all jobs, everywhere, like right now, just stop for a moment and fix the damn issuesgrafician
- ^ this. Basically that's what I've been posting on linkedin all day. My bosses and have been baking me up.shellie
- @shellie I'm f triggered when I see injustice! I love the NBA because in sports there are no colors, these guys set an example today, follow thatgrafician
- "The WNBA announced that the three games scheduled for this evening have been postponed. "grafician
- @shellie btw good call posting on linkedin, that network has way better reach than Fb or instagram or other networksgrafician
- They were going to stop play at 7 minutes and take shot clock violations, but I think this is more appropriate.shellie
- Good for him, I love the jet_niko
- drgs2
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTr…
In Oslo, where I live, the local government is doing the exact opposite -- buying/building social housing in the western part of the city (red = expensive, green = cheap), to even out the division between west and east and to avoid ghettos like they have in Sweden.
- Next step, apartheid_niko
- Most Suburbs in the US would be shitty for low income housing. Suburbs have no walkable servicesnb
- Trump is just spouting bullshit nonsense as usualnb
- I'm very torn on this topic.monospaced
- LDN can be quite good like this. First place when I moved here was right next to a prison (literally), yet 4 mins walk to Tony Blair's house. A bit organic.Nairn
- let's try ghettos... didn't do that in a while.renderedred
- LDN just makes it a cinder box, million pound houses next to council estates... million pound streets now have private 24 security staff...shapesalad
- Plus, why would you spend millions to then look at a council estate. It's actually better to be poor in LDN and have a nice view from your council estate flat.shapesalad
- Remind me, just which middle class suburbs in America are getting low-income housing put in?nb
- Trump is getting clobbered in the suburbs... suburban voters abandoning the GOP is one of the biggest trends of past couple years.yuekit
- So I would take this sort of racist pandering as more of a campaign tactic than an actual policy.yuekit
- He's fighting (and will lose) a global phenomenon of urban/suburban inversion.i_monk
- Suburbs are naturally becoming the ghettos as people move to the city centerssarahfailin
- @sarah, not really, not at allmonospaced
- That’s not what ghetto meansnb
- Again, where is the low income housing?nb
- Yeah there's no real factual basis behind it, just Trump trying to stir up shit like he always does. But the magic is gone.yuekit
- pango4
‘We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them’: Three cops fired after racist talk of killing black residents
'Sitting in his patrol car in Wilmington, N.C., Officer Michael “Kevin” Piner predicted Black Lives Matter protests would soon lead to civil war. “I’m ready,” Piner told another officer, adding that he planned to buy an assault rifle.
“We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f------ n------,” he said.
The shocking threat came amid extended, openly racist conversations between Piner, 44, and two other police officers, 50-year-old Cpl. Jesse E. Moore II, and 48-year-old Officer James “Brian” Gilmore. In the discussions, taped by accident on a patrol car camera and released Wednesday by the department, the men freely drop racial slurs, suggest killing black residents and deride protesters.
“Wipe 'em off the f------ map,” Piner said of African Americans. “That’ll put 'em back about four or five generations.”
- Exactly why this movement exists. If we have racist cops that seem excited to act violently on their racism with a license, then there's a huge problem.monospaced
- These are the types of men that would kneel on a man's neck while he cried out for his life, and then claim the murder was justified because he wasn't a saint.monospaced
- < This is sickening. @mono, what are BLM in the US suggesting is done to combat this type of fuckery?Morning_star
- ^ BLM wants revolution.MondoMorphic
- chill bruh.
more like reform.pango - @Morning They want to see this kind of thing stop, and to be treated like they would anyone else. I think these cops should be stripped of their badges for lifemonospaced
- They want to see accountability. They want to see the police guilty of race based abuse charged and punished like they would be, quickly and severely.monospaced
- They want police to stop protecting their own when they don't deserve it. It's all pretty rational.monospaced
- I'm feeling your ally energy mom and I like it. If you wasn't your children to be friends with whomever they like, that puts them in danger too.shellie
- we need more people thinking about how this can effect them at home, too. it doesn't really strike a chord for most until it's at their doorstep.shellie
- fake news. Transcripts dont really portray subtle nuances of language. and with the cotton picked details its about impossbile to decide if serious or joking.deathboy
- or if people even had any real meaning and intent. id be scared if i was constantly recorded without context. or is there a recording?deathboy
- i didnt see one but IE sarcasm as transcript doesn't play the same medium as face to face.deathboy
- you really need to stop, deathy.face_melter
- why face? are you telling me asking for context is wrong?deathboy
- do you deny transcript vs human communication lacks certain nuances including sarcasm?deathboy
- or do you want me to stop question what make su feel good. like dotn question jesus death or any religious inconsistenciesdeathboy
- do you think historically the idea of belief is authority is transitional. from greek gos to christian values, pagan beleifs, or current media political beliefsdeathboy
- what makes a person smart enough to acknowledge siuch things as have happend through all history?deathboy
- ^ LOLpango
- cotton picked details? Are you for real?monospaced
- This is a transcript from a recording yin STUPID RACIST FUCKmonospaced
- What is the missed subtle nuance in "We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them fucking n****rs" deathboy???monospaced
- Are you saying there is a situation in which this is OKAY for a police officer to think and say on duty?monospaced
- cotton pick is for funz. nuance is context. these guys laughing saying it as a joke or disturbingly serious?deathboy
- given absolute zero context... ie. i hope those pig cops kill all the niggers... quote it out of contextdeathboy
- i can tell the media is reaching by lack of detail on context. If there was more they'd hang them like a ... black person?...deathboy
- so before you grab your torch and follow hereditary racist instincts to go hang a nigga think about it a bit.deathboy
- Mono have you read the transcripts of ice t?deathboy
- lol ^ this guy never runs out of shit from his thought.pango
- The context is they're JOKING? Yes, I've read Ice-T. If you're arguing he shouldn't be a cop, I would agree. What's your point?monospaced
- Let's assume you're right, they're joking. They are still making a racist joke about killing black people, and referring to them as niggers. Is that now okay?monospaced
- Is this funny? Is this okay for a police officer to even joke about when they're supposed to be protecting and serving? Fuck you.monospaced
- ice t plays a great cop in law and orderdeathboy
- if it was a joke its a joke amongst its audience. like when me and your wife make fun of you lil wee wee.. its funny to us. but not if you read the transcriptdeathboy
- now theres the context wether you think your wife is truly a lil wee wee hater and wee wee racist you for it. or just laughing and having a good time not worriedeathboy
- d about being recorded. ever wonder how much comedy involves race or "killing" jokes? ever here the one about hitler killing ten clowns?deathboy
- lighten up and quit being a turddeathboy
- instrmntl6
- That’s well and all but where’s all the rage when it’s black on black murders? It’s just jokes then eh Dave? Nobody’s going to respect you and take you serious_niko
- Seriously until you start respecting each other first. Stop calling each other ni**** and stop murdering each other. How can anyone like you when you don’t lik_niko
- Like you. In fact, you hate you._niko
- Also worst comedy special ever lol_niko
- ^wut?pango
- I agree whole heartedly with his anger towards cops, seriously fuck em. Dave meanders here, he’s got a lot of hurt and anger but doesn’t know where to focus it_niko
- Watched this twice and just feels like he’s on the defensive for not being vocal enough or reacting like he was expected to. His articulate idiot joke was funny_niko
- swear i remember him getting shredded for his opinions last timedeathboy
- ^ triggered alert, calling the wambulanceSalarrue
- He admits "this is not funny at all". It's not a comedy set. Let Dave speak. Fucking national treasure, this guy.nb
- ive always found dave funny. just remember pc culture slamming him on his comebac last time.deathboy
- jsut shows how pointless and shallow it isdeathboy
- Ramanisky22
Louisville police declare State of Emergency in preparation for Grand Jury announcement on the Breonna Taylor case.
- So ... preparing for failed justice then. Great.monospaced
- if they don't charge the officers with anything then, yeah, they're gonna need it.colin_s
- It’s a grand jury, isn’t what they decide the justice Part?Gnash
- Gnash, you're making too much sense.MondoMorphic
- That’s not what grand juries do. They only determine if a case is worthy of going to trial or not.monospaced
- that’s kinda relatedGnash
- Courthouses... ain’t they where no injustice has ever happened? Come on Gnash... I know you have more sense than that, right?ben_
- I’ve been on two grand juries. Unfortunately they aren’t given any power to exact the kind of justice you might be imagining.monospaced
- They have to follow the law as written - that’s kinda the point. You need to change the laws that are unjust, and that’s the juries jobGnash
- That’s ‘not’ their job, I meantGnash
- Seems reasonable officers not guilty. Bad intel. Sometimes shit happens. I get no knock orders. When aiming to take down some u believe is a suspect it's notdeathboy
- In self interest of police officers to knock and say hey anyone home to arrest. But there will never be a cure for bad inteldeathboy
- Just one of those everyday shit storiesdeathboy
- There was no no knock approval.monospaced
- There was no no knock approval. And there is no verdict you cunt.monospaced
- tHE PoLicE dO nOtHiNg WrOng aND ArE vERy BRavE, the imbeciles honk from the peanut gallery.face_melter
- They are preparing it because historically Grand Jury rarely indicts police. Yes, laws need to be looked at, but still it's historic injustice as it usuallyben_
- doesn't go to trial, so no Gnash, "Justice" isn't what Grand Juries deliver, because they are hamstrung by confusing use of force rules.ben_
- The grand jury could VERY WELL decide this goes to trial, in which case the police in question would immediately become criminal defendants.monospaced
- /\ Yes, let's hope they do. History would suggest that they rarely do that.ben_
- That’s so true, Ben. I didn’t articulate it very well. The jury gets screwed by the technical definitions. It’s not the objective justice people hope forGnash
- Those definitions get amended over time. Hopefully, this will trigger one of those changesGnash
- @gnash, all good. Yeah they seem to be amended slowly if at all. This is just another powder keg with the wick lit.ben_
- And for the record totally open to other views on this but history just shows such a bad track record in these cases. It’s lead to a type of assumed immunityben_
- For copsben_
- wait everything says a no-knock warrant was executed... and since everything was by the book besides body cameras activated... I fully expect officers be freedeathboy
- of charges and fully expect ppl to "feel" no justice has been served. its a shit thing. will you blame the judge for the warrant?deathboy
- people act in good faith on intelligence. you think these people acted as racist looking for a fire fight? acknowledge it for what it isdeathboy
- I wasn't claiming racism, but the combination of a no-knock warrant, no bodycams, and no identification after the breach seems that it's reasonable for Walkerben_
- and Taylor to stand their ground. No one here was there, so going off the report it seems that the cops fucked up and someone should answer for it.ben_
- It's negligence at least, so IF a bodycam were actually on, maybe that clears things up. Either way, cops rarely if ever see indictment past this stage.ben_
- my understanding is that there was no no-knock warrant and they just busted down the door without announcing themselves. Lied about body cams toomonospaced
- Furthermore, cops FAILED to hit the man who shot them. Then let said suspect who shot cop call the police for an ambulance 5 minutes later. Doesn't add up.monospaced
- Breonna didn't shoot at them, yet took all fire. Why did they not call an ambulance and make their suspect do it? Why lie about body cams?monospaced
- yeah from the accounts so far we have a no-knock without identification after the breach (rule 1 broken), lies about body cams (we will see), and then sprayben_
- & pray by the police after a warning shot (bad, but that's undertrained cops' response), then more cover up lies. Breonna caught the bullets because: Cops.ben_
- And what do you know...ben_
- It's about to get wild in KY!davey_g
- Mono u seem way wrong I. The details. Hell I believed bad intelligence by reports but looks all gooddeathboy
- And to bens point they can stand their ground. The question comes into intelligence. Seems legit.deathboy
- It's frustrating everytime a black person makes poor life decisions they are the victim. This is counter productivedeathboy
- Hold people no matter of creed or color to decisions they make. Did her involvement in illict drugs get her shit. Yesdeathboy
- Should drugs not be illicit? A better question for progressdeathboy
- I'm not wrong. The call is recorded and timeline is not contested. Also, last I checked, drug dealing is not punishable by death you fuckassmonospaced
- db, if the police announced themselves after the breach, which they are required to do this could have turned out differently. Who knows, but these cops shouldben_
- at least be held accountable for the protocols they didn't follow. The Louisville police department has always seemed like a bunch of rogue doofusesben_
- My cousin is stationed there and the police force and their training is an open joke amongst the military.ben_
- I mean one of them blind fired through drapes... do you realize what kind of gutless rookie shit that is?ben_
- it was a no knock warrant mono. if they announced themselves and got shot it only justfies it that much more u simpdeathboy
- or wait that is someone else talkign of annoucncement.deathboy
- you all look a like. if breonna didnt drug deal and run money would she have been in that situation?deathboy
- if they didnt shoot cops, if she ducked down. lots of what ifs. But fact is serious people stay in school. If you discuss business from jail lines, you are adeathboy
- lsot cause and goign to drag everyone down with u... or wait.. family got a 12 mil payday.deathboy
- haha maybe no moral to the story, jsut laugh slap your knee and move ondeathboy
- Ramanisky23
The MAGA’ts new Hero just a few months back.
- MAGA4Lifeutopian
- Why is this little cunt MAGA’s hero anyway? For destroying at least 2 lives and their families?NBQ00
- fine people on both sides.neverscared
- He was destined for this.Ramanisky2
- What a little shitpango
- 'I Was a Teenaged Incel'Continuity
- Can't see what's goin' on, he punched a girl ?i_was
- Punched her in the back of the headRamanisky2
- The MAGAtard was punches a girl from behind. A true Hayoth move.utopian
- What a path...i_was
- not sure if digging up his history is necessary. killing 2 injure 1 is enough of a crime. not even sure if its really him in the vid.pango
- Ramanisky26
- So all these guys are dead?
https://i.imgur.com/…Gnash - ^ One is missing a toe after he shot himself in the foot by accident.PhanLo
- That’s more than 1 black Kyle Rittenhouse Gnash lolRamanisky2
- In that same situation, yes, if he was black cops would have shot him down with hundreds of ammosi_was
- So all these guys are dead?
- grafician3
Plot twist
"The Kenosha Shooting Suspect Was In The Front Row Of A Trump Rally In January"
- Dude, that's a child who was attacked by multiple grown men. It's a bad situation for everyone. Do you really need to fan the flames?monNom
- A child soldier, yeahnb
- ^ he put himself there ... grabbed an
AR-15, drove across state lines to do what exactly??? cmon man.Ramanisky2 - And that group that chased him, hit him with a skateboard, stomped him and tried to take his gun put themselves there. Lots of stupid to go around.monNom
- + monNompr2
- I'm pretty sure here parents would go to jail, kid would go to juvenile detention or sentenced as an adult, case closed. You live in a banana country now...grafician
- Because they just witnessed him shoot someone in the head.Ramanisky2
- Also anybody going about this with a "but..." deserves a punch in the face, you idiots down there have no respect for human life AT ALL?!grafician
- Video so far looks like he was chased down after shooting someone in the head at a gas station. Not molotovs either.12xu
- Buddy in the red shirt is chasing him, there's a gun shot and then guy with the rifle turns on his pursuer and fires. Maybe he thought he was being fired on?monNom
- At least in Ramanisky2's video a few posts down. Different edits you're gonna get a different take on things.monNom
- As people mentioned, he had likely already killed someone at that pointyuekit
- Milan1
- needless and stupid. cop didn't need to shoot him like that but also where the fuck was he going? was he reaching for his gun?_niko
- or was he reaching for his paper?pango
- There was no gun, only 3 of his kids in the car who just witnessed their father get shot 7 times at close range.Ramanisky2
- cop couldn't know, but you can hear someone say "don't you do it, Blake no" which could have put the cops on edge, like they knew he was going for a gun_niko
- the whole thing's horrific any way you look at it. pointless, hope he pulls through._niko
- pulls through? the dude who got shot 7 times or the cop? wait he got shot 7 time and lived?!pango
- Apparently he is in stable conditionRamanisky2
- would you ever run or resist cop like that? I wouldn't.AQUTE
- Are those rubber bullets?? Even IF he needed to shoot the guy, why the FUCK did he have to do it SEVEN times???MondoMorphic
- I await the rivers of cancerous dreck from QBN's resident short bus bootlicking, cop-sucking, passengers.face_melter
- a cops first reaction is always to shoot first.utopian
- He is paralyzedinstrmntl
- if you're such a pussy and scared on sight of a black man, why join the police?Milan
- babydick0
- best response
https://medium.com/@…Bluejam - So, I can only post reaction gifs using white people? Can only black people post black gifs?monospaced
- based an odd assumption that folks in homogenised regions will stereotype black folks based on memes? because eddie murphy?kingsteven
- fuck, that response is amazingkingsteven
- Not a cultGnash
- No, not a cult.monospaced
- Oh good godMondoMorphic
- Sweet Brown capitalized off it, at least tried - https://www.nickiswi…canoe
- what about using the wrong skin tone of emoji? Will we ever see racial fluidity the same way we see gender fluidity? If not, why not?BaskerviIle
- not once did this article mention BLM - why did you post it here?canoe
- ^ ya, i thought the same. not blmGnash
- Pc of the dayPonyBoy
- you will find out rage opinion of any kind online.pango
- canoe -- because I can.babydick
- because its black related.
lolpango - but just for babydick.
yes they are out of their fucking mind.pango - https://thumbs.gfyca…pango
- best response
- utopian4
- The guy shooting the vid sounds like a fuckhead. Just another outrage addict looking for wanker-points onlineGnash
- Yeah wtf does this have to do with BLM. Nothingnb
- Black people are afraid for their lives when interacting with police. It's a serious problem.nb
- This is two condo-owning nobodies getting worked up over a MAYBE microaggression and a tv station trying to manufacture outrage. Stay focused y'all!nb
- wut? who are they? what happened?pango
- fuck knows. some minor spat over a parking garage. lets destroy the dudes life!inteliboy
- The kid threatened to shoot someone for trying to park in his own building, called the cops on him, then attacked someone trying to intervene.instrmntl
- ohhh what a cuntpango
- https://sfist.com/20…refunktion
- imbecile10
- Nairn3
I'm a bit weirded out about Keith Lemon's (whatever his real name is) crying with regret for playing black people, and apparently iPlayer and Netflix removing Little Britain from their services for the same. Frankly, I'm in agreement with the latter, but purely because I always hated Little Britain.
What I don't get is - what's wrong with a white person playing a black person, especially in comedy? I mean - having a white person what should be a black (or any other ethnicity) role in a film or theatre production or whatever's a bit.. well, daft, but if someone wants to make up a character - why not?
If they're joking about the person and not the race, as Keith Lemon (whatever) seems to have done - then so what? I was never a great fan, but I don't recall it ever being about racist stereotypes, but his targets' general -ness.
I've mentioned on here before that - whilst I've not seen the movie it's from (I need to) - one of my favourite memes is the gif of Key & Peele's White Chicks hyper-duck facing. Clearly they're mocking a certain character-type (spoilt valley/daddy's girl), one that is predominantly white - but so what? Fucking cracks me up.
Honestly, I think it's ultimately more divisive to create these barriers (as I see them). I want to see more non-polarised appreciation of personas from comedians, from all sides, not less of it.
- This is low on the pile of shit happening right now, I understand, haha.
Just the reflexive direction things have taken seems.. worrying.Nairn - When it’s done like Jimmy Fallon did Chris Fock and your lampooning a specific person it might be ok, but it’s when it’s an over the top stereotype_niko
- erm, keith lemon isn't on little britain is he?hans_glib
- Of a race like al Holden or when done because you don’t want to use an actual actor from that race like all the yellow face that was done that’s a problem_niko
- *jolson not Holden_niko
- Although even Jolson has a complicated legacy, he’s vilified now but at the time he was celebrated in black circles, with him being Jewish and bringing the suff_niko
- Suffering of the two peoples together and opening the doors for actual black entertainers, many of whom were his close friends._niko
- No, hans - 'Leigh Francis' had some histrionic breakdown last week and today Little Britain was removed from those services.Nairn
- So what's a double act supposed to do when it wants to refer to a person outwith their race? Call in an [insert race] actor? It's ridiculous.Nairn
- if the humour's racist at its core, it doesn't matter whether the participants are blacking up.Nairn
- Don't worry, at the rate things are going no one will remember any of this a month from now.yuekit
- Next
https://www.indiewir…drgs - I want to see an asian actor play a black actor playing a white actress.
And one of them is an owl.Nairn - The only time I wasn't offended was Tropic Thunder. Watching white people imitate what they think black is, is nauseating to me.shellie
- Tropic Thunder was basically pointing out the fact that it's fucked up that hollywood does that. Along with so many other issues they touched. Its a fine lineshellie
- and easily overstepped. In general, I DO NOT want my blackness to be a costume. Same for Geisha, Native American or other ethnic costume. Its disrespectful.shellie
- On top of that, black and ethnic actors are not given as many opportunities. White characters in american entertainment are still by in large the majority.shellie
- Let the ethnic actors play the parts that are written to be a specific ethnicity. Can they at least have THAT opportunity?? Like, damn. Btw, I know many workingshellie
- actors in Los Angeles. I work in entertainment. I've seen this first hand. There's so many levels of yuck on the whole issue.shellie
- "DO NOT want my blackness to be a costume" this is the type of statement that is going to make more people racist in my opinion.Hayzilla
- Curious. from what I know, Japanese seem to be more than happy for non-Japanese to engage in Geisha - what right do you have to gatekeep other cultures?Nairn
- I totally get the point made in Tropic Thunder. It's a good one, mentioned in my post here. However, that's not what I was directing at.Nairn
- What I mean is - if you have an act where they cover all bases, with respect and appreciation - what point is there in getting hysterical about thingsNairn
- .when that treads over their own race? Can they then not 'do' women? People from different regions? People of different heights?Nairn
- If it's not racist, it's not racist. If it is, it is.
Doesn't matter what the 'costume', as you put it, is. Do things with respect and we can all have a laugh.Nairn - (a laugh with, not at)Nairn
- Nairn is spot on. Well said.Hayzilla
- This is low on the pile of shit happening right now, I understand, haha.
- instrmntl0
Biden is spineless...
Biden Walks a Cautious Line as He Opposes Defunding the Police
As gruesome videos and energetic protests reshape public opinion about racial discrimination, Joe Biden tried to balance protesters’ calls for a law enforcement overhaul while not alienating moderate voters.
- ya seems like he just want everything to remain exactly the same. nothing will change for better or worse. its safe... and boring....pango
- Please, let's not make BLM about Biden. It is so much bigger than one president.nb
- I wasn't as this is an article of non presidential support for BLM and how it needs to turn.instrmntl
- Biden forgot he himself is a racist.PhanLo
- Pretty muchinstrmntl
- not sure if he's a racist but he sure seem like he doesn't know how race work.pango
- I dunno, personally I think ‘defund the police’ is a poor choice of slogan. It sounds like people are saying abolish the police.yuekit
- That slogan needs some reworking.instrmntl
- instrmntl. how do you propose defunding work? Right now that is gonna happen anyways with covid19 and tax revenue as it is.deathboy
- u need a plan and objective, than we can see if its logical. a slogan. defund police, smell the roses. pretty equaldeathboy
- good luck asking crowds for planpango
- Incremental change just enough to get your vote then poof, FUCK YOUmoldero
- Defund police. Abolish prisons. Destroy the Nuclear family. None of these policies appeal to the majority. BLM will wither and die quicker than fentanyl floydDoris_McSquirter
- Right now some cities are talking about exactly what the plan would be an it involves a conversation about what types of calls Police shouldn't be involved in.ben_
- I agree the slogan will be polarizing, but word smithing it won't achieve anything either. Round the edges a bit and people will still scream "you mean defund".ben_
- I think it's a needless distraction. If you want to win, the best strategy is just to sit back and let Trump destroy himself.yuekit
- It's a bad slogan, he's right to stay away from that shit. The ideas are good, don't get me wrong but communication is crucial here and this is bad copy.zarkonite
- shapesalad2
What's the end goal for BLM protests? Is there a specific law they want changing or drafting?
If these protests last for 1 month, 1 year... what is the objective goal?
The horrific inhumane murder that sparked these protests has brought to view a USA problem. And that's a positive, that it's being spoken about, thought about, considered.
A first the protests around the world and here in the UK were meaningful. A sign of solidarity and of bringing the issue to the forefront. Of saying it's not just a USA problem. Ok. Good.
But as the protests are ongoing, become more aggressive/destructive... Statues destroy, Police horses hurt, Police themselves injured... what specific result are they looking to achieve? Is there a law or code of conducted drafted that they want to see enacted.
- Protests will fizzle out when all the core catch Wuhan Flu. Natural selection innit.Doris_McSquirter
- Here's a website they created with some pretty detailed policies
https://www.joincamp…yuekit - Not got a clue re their demands. Most likely an absurd, endless wish list. Ultimate aim is revenge on Whitey for years of oppression.Doris_McSquirter
- Well...some white people tried to stop the slave trade, William Wilberforce in particular, so not all historic white people are bad.shapesalad
- I'm all for these protests, to bring attention. Really sad to see Trumps response. Sad to see police being more violent. Sad to see protestors being violentshapesalad
- Keep in mind we're talking about a lot of different people here. I don't think the people looting stores are BLM.yuekit
- Last year I got to see the Hong Kong protests firsthand. 90% were peaceful, but there was a small group that did smash stores and destroy property.yuekit
- But I don't think their actions discredit the entire movement or what they are fighting for. And the same applies here.yuekit
- The fact you have no clue what this is about is quite possibly the saddest and most embarrassing thing (for you) I’ve seen or heard. Deathboy I understood.monospaced
- Sorry but I think it’s obvious. They want change. Accountability. An end to this.monospaced
- Defunding the police seems to be a key demand. Most folks wont want that. The movement is doomed.Doris_McSquirter
- def. acountability, the movement is blossoming global now. not gonna go away as easy anymore.neverscared
- Blossoming for now but that wont last. Their mission lacks coherence.Doris_McSquirter
- ya that happens when its a grassroot movement. decentralized. no one in charge. its just bunch of every day people fed up.pango
- yea almsot every change they want i find huge issues with in logistics or obecjtive reasoning. and funny not one thing would have saved that dudes life theydeathboy
- advocate for which make sme think this is all about money and pwoer ad special interests as any lobbying or organiztion. might as well be the NRA.deathboy
- except i support the NRA with support for second amendments rights ( which do greater good esecially with calls to abolish poilce) and an actual rational stancedeathboy
- on single logically objective course of actiondeathboy
- Likely outcome: "We should expand and militarize the police forces so this sort of thing won't happen in future!"monNom
- uhm no because force of police has little to do with thisdeathboy
- i actually dont know what would could help. Im not sure there is an answer beside do less crime and avoid copsdeathboy
- Private militias will fill the vaccum. Nice.Doris_McSquirter
- MEAL TEAM SIX!pango
- Ramanisky21
WUT?!?
“Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice...”
- too bad it wasn't his choice to sacrifice.pango
- yikesPonyBoy
- What the fucknb
- shout to my moms...bizarro speech.utopian
- She's just an all-round fucking wretch of a human being. Cancer in a pantsuit.face_melter
- Stock buying opportunistinstrmntl
- senile old women talking money, nothing else.renderedred
- lol, needs more black people in the shotMilan
- :[ tone-deaf and out of touchpango