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Nice Planet #8: You People Make Me Sick.

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Patman said:
Its about being ignorant about facts and letting righteousness trump reality. Its about a moralistic concern that society may be bad and using specious evidence to then take that and get in people's faces. Its a movement sans factual legitimacy spurned by those who have been told all their lives its their moral mandate to fight perceived injustice.

Take away the romanticism. This isn't the great cause of our time... its a lump of morons looking to be a part of supporting some cause to make themselves feel great and righteous. Its moral masturbation combined with inherent self-justification.
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Nailed it.
 
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Priceless said:
A message board populated almost exclusively by upper middle class white guys isn't exactly a place that is going to respond to the concerns of inner city minorities.
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If old white guys don't say it, how can the black people who read the board ever learn what they should be doing/feeling?
 
Foxton said:
If old white guys don't say it, how can the black people who read the board ever learn what they should be doing/feeling?
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With no sense of irony at all, Bobby Ryan took to Twitter yesterday to complain that protesters woke him from his pregame nap. If we polled this group, how many do you think would sympathize with Ryan?
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Nailed it.
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Another (black person's) voice concurs:

According to the FBI, homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men, who are 10 times more likely than their white counterparts to be murdered....Blacks are just 13% of the population but responsible for a majority of all murders in the U.S., and more than 90% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks.

Blacks commit violent crimes at 7 to 10 times the rate that whites do. The fact that their victims tend to be of the same race suggests that young black men in the ghetto live in danger of being shot by each other, not cops....Research has long shown that the rate at which blacks are arrested is nearly identical to the rate at which crime victims identify blacks as their assailants. The police are in these communities because that’s where the emergency calls originate, and they spend much of their time trying to stop residents of the same race from harming one another.
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J.D. said:
sorry but there are numerous ways to protest without attempting to take over the mass pike and disrupt traffic in other locations. it's idiotic no matter when, worse when you consider people on the road due to thanksgiving. and that's not even taking into consideration emergency situations you could be interfering with. it's beyond dumb.
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and what if I have a sick person in the car that needs to get to the emergency room stat? or a pregnant woman about to give birth? or all sorts of other emergencies that require a clear road to save a life?

I wonder if the people who block roads in protest calmly step aside to let an ambulance get through?? or a fire truck?? :(
 
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Priceless said:
Shocking.
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You don't like what someone has to say, then ignore the content entirely? Typical. How does the truth of a statement vary depending upon who says it?? :rolleyes:

if black criminal behavior is a response to white racism, how is it that black crime rates were lower in the 1940s and 1950s, when black poverty was higher, racial discrimination was rampant and legal, and the country was more than a half-century away from twice electing a black president?
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No one wants to admit the obvious: that the 'war on poverty' was an abject policy failure.
 
FreshFish said:
You don't like what someone has to say, then ignore the content entirely? Typical. How does the truth of a statement vary depending upon who says it?? :rolleyes:



No one wants to admit the obvious: that the 'war on poverty' was an abject policy failure.
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To be fair, I pretty much ignore anything you say, notsomuch Jason Riley. I understand that he gets paid a lot of money to spew his garbage but I don't know what is in it for you to regurgitate it.
 
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LynahFan said:
Want to bet? I predict that the protests die down and go away without any discernable, concrete results occurring.
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Yep.

It used to be a guy shoots or kills another guy. The perp gets off, or perhaps isn't going to get the punishment "the mob" wants, or as soon as the mob thinks it should be administered.

The mob just goes and snatches the perp and kills him. A couple of days later everyone wakes up, kind of remembers what they did, a bit sheepishly look around at their fellow "mob" members. Everyone goes about with their lives and no one ever speaks of it again. The whole thing is over in a couple of days.

A bit tougher now for the mob to administer justice, what with jails built like maximum security prisons and the police outfitted better than most modern armies.

So the mob is stuck standing in the street yelling like crazed lunatics, or stealing malt liquor from the nearest available liquor store. It's not the same. It burns off a little anger and frustration, but it doesn't have the same effect.

But eventually everyone tires of the futility of it, and it dies down.
 
Priceless said:
A message board populated almost exclusively by upper middle class white guys isn't exactly a place that is going to respond to the concerns of inner city minorities.
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Yup, a lot of people here are incapable of gaining perspective and/or displaying empathy. Doesn't mean I'm going to change my stance.
 
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In upstate New York last March, Police Officer David Smith responded to a disturbance call at an office, when suddenly, a disturbed man pummeled the officer as he was attempting to exit his vehicle and then grabbed his gun and shot him dead.
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I wonder how many stores the police then burned down in protest....
 
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Priceless said:
To be fair, I pretty much ignore anything you say, notsomuch Jason Riley. I understand that he gets paid a lot of money to spew his garbage but I don't know what is in it for you to regurgitate it.
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What about that wasn't true?
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Yup, a lot of people here are incapable of gaining perspective and/or displaying empathy. Doesn't mean I'm going to change my stance.
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Your bleating is getting old.
 
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LynahFan said:
Want to bet? I predict that the protests die down and go away without any discernable, concrete results occurring.
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Oh, I dunno. There may be a commission. It might even have a blue ribbon.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Yup, a lot of people here are incapable of gaining perspective and/or displaying empathy. Doesn't mean I'm going to change my stance.
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Good for you. You might want to do find a more welcoming outlet for your interests though. People here don't tend to be quite so open-minded.
 
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