All things Racist...USA edition (6 Viewers)

[Farb]

I was looking for a place to put this so we could discuss but didn't really find a place that worked so I created this thread so we can all place articles, experiences, videos and examples of racism in the USA.

This is one that happened this week. The lady even called and filed a complaint on the officer. This officer also chose to wear the body cam (apparently, LA doesn't require this yet). This exchange wasn't necessarily racist IMO until she started with the "mexican racist...you will never be white, like you want" garbage. That is when it turned racist IMO

All the murderer and other insults, I think are just a by product of CRT and ACAB rhetoric that is very common on the radical left and sadly is being brought to mainstream in this country.

Another point that I think is worth mentioning is she is a teacher and the sense of entitlement she feels is mind blowing.

https://news.yahoo.com/black-teacher-berates-latino-la-221235341.html

 

[Farb]

Someone facing arrest is going to either submit or flee. I don't think someone in the process of submitting suddenly changes their mind for no reason. For example, there were three officers on the scene. Officer #1 was on the driver's side, Officer #2 was on the passenger side, and Officer #3 was near the squad car. When Officer #1 began the arrest, Officer #3 (the one who shot him) began to approach as she unsnapped her holster. Do you think that could have scared him?

You just said you don't think someone will change their mind, but then laid out why he changed his mind. If he allowed himself to be cuffed and didn't try and reenter his vehicle and drive off, he would be jail, but alive. Cant have it both ways.

 

[Farb]

Then you don’t believe in the US Constitution. You are evidently a Christian Nationalist who wants to end our republic, end our freedom of religion and install a theocracy. You should leave America if you don’t believe in the tenets we are founded on. America, love it or leave it, right?

These are dangerous, and radical beliefs you are espousing.

You nailed me down. You are exactly right.

This is why I think there will be split/divorce in this country. How can you share a country with someone like me? Why would you want too?

I also think you misunderstood my post.

 

[Farb]

They picked it up directly from QAnon. That’s where a large part of the Republican base is these days.

No, it is not. No one talks about Q except for you guys.

 

[SFIDC3]

No, it is not. No one talks about Q except for you guys.

Are you really that willfully disingenuous? I have 2 now ex-friends that are Q freaks and their facebook pages are filled with Q stuff and they have multitudes of Q friends.....it's very real, to pretend otherwise is straight delusional....it's both sad and very dangerous at the same time....

 

[MT15]

It is indeed. So is the push back from the public. Example: Disney

It isn’t the public pushing back. It’s one loony politician and his enablers.

No, it is not. No one talks about Q except for you guys.

Oh you are going to have to do better than that. Mainstream R politicians are saying Q crap out in the open. The lie that the election was stolen, that trans and gay people are groomers and pedophiles, that democrats and/or the elites are poisoning the public with a safe and effective vaccine. Hell, you believe some of this stuff. It came from Q whether you want to believe it or not.

Oh, I’m glad to hear I misunderstood your post about Christian nationalism. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[Optimus Prime]

BLM is far more dangerous than anything some weird out of touch loones who believe in lizards drinking children's blood.

People who believe Black Lives Matter are far more dangerous than weird out of touch loons who believe in lizards drinking children's blood who are electing other loons who believe in lizards drinking children's blood

Sounds legit

 

[Saintamaniac]

Oh, I’m glad to hear I misunderstood your post about Christian nationalism. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

LOL....I know you know this already but it was his tried and true defense mechanism to claim that all the rest of us misunderstood what he meant when he admitted that he agreed with Christian nationalism. You see, Christian Nationalist don't want to be put in the same category as Muslim extremist who support sharia law. To them, Muslims are evil people with extreme beliefs....but they are Muslims. Christian Nationalist can't be evil because...well, they're Christians. As long as you share their beliefs, there's no problems. However, if your beliefs run counter to theirs, then you are evil and they are commanded by their god to pass laws that encroach on YOUR freedoms.

Christian nationalist = Muslim extremist. The only difference between the two is the god they worship.

 

[coldseat]

LOL....I know you know this already but it was his tried and true defense mechanism to claim that all the rest of us misunderstood what he meant when he admitted that he agreed with Christian nationalism. You see, Christian Nationalist don't want to be put in the same category as Muslim extremist who support sharia law. To them, Muslims are evil people with extreme beliefs....but they are Muslims. Christian Nationalist can't be evil because...well, they're Christians. As long as you share their beliefs, there's no problems. However, if your beliefs run counter to theirs, then you are evil and they are commanded by their god to pass laws that encroach on YOUR freedoms.

Christian nationalist = Muslim extremist. The only difference between the two is the god they worship.

Even that isn't different between the two faiths. Technically/historically, it's the same God. The only difference is how they choose to worship.

 

[samiam5211]

Even that isn't different between the two faiths. Technically/historically, it's the same God. The only difference is how they choose to worship.

Yea, I think the most substantial difference when you get down into it is bacon and shrimp.

 

[SaulGoodmanEsq]

It is indeed. So is the push back from the public. Example: Disney

The public or Ron DeSantis? In any event, can we agree that cancel culture is a meaningless phrase?

 

[cuddlemonkey]

You just said you don't think someone will change their mind, but then laid out why he changed his mind. If he allowed himself to be cuffed and didn't try and reenter his vehicle and drive off, he would be jail, but alive. Cant have it both ways.

I said I don't think someone is going to change their mind FOR NO REASON. He was submitting to arrest when the third officer approached and unsnapped her holster. DO you think there's a chance that could have scared him?

 

[Port City JJ]

BLM is far more dangerous than anything some weird out of touch loones who believe in lizards drinking children's blood. I remember the riot that were 'fiery but mostly peaceful'

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

Which Southern border?

It's may not be an invasion, but these caravans are certainly causing issues in MX, at both borders, and even in between borders, being both victims and perpetrators of crime. There are constant clashes in Chiapas (border with Guatemala) between immigrants and police, as immigrants block streets and storm government offices to demand they are given papers to allow them to walk through MX. They come from just about everywhere: Central America obviously, but also Cuba, Haiti, DR, Jamaica, Venezuela, Colombia, Senegal, Ghana, India, Russia...

You're not debating the point of the article I posted. That statement was just a subtitle to a picture.

 

[SystemShock]

BLM is far more dangerous than anything some weird out of touch loones who believe in lizards drinking children's blood. I remember the riot that were 'fiery but mostly peaceful'

No, BLM is not even dangerous, much less anything close to dangerous as QAnon. Whatever disturbances happened when the BLM marches were going on (and those were in part provoked by police) they pale in comparison to storming the Capitol and trying to overthrow a legitimate election, and the general authoritarian and zealous religious rhetoric they spew.

Yeah, the government never takes new bureaucracies too far. Nothing to worry about that, right?\

If your angle is general mistrust of government, ok. But so far the proposed bureau seems to aim at clarifying government stances on issues.

Never knew a boogeyman to cause so much damager to public property and life,

That's what you have been told. It is simply not true.
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but if the left gets to claim ANTIFA as a boogeyman, then Q is absolutely a boogeyman.

I don't think a boogeyman stormed the U.S. Capitol.

I know of not a single person, not one that has anything to do with Q or even really knows what it is. The people that discuss Q are all left.

Which island do you live on? Is Wilson your neighbor?

Come on, man.

Who is resiticting free speech? Do you think you can go on facebook, twitter (maybe now) or youtube

Private corporations. They can restrict any content on their sites.

and discuss the positive effects of ivermectin on covid?

... and you say you have never heard of QAnon.

What about discussing the negative side effects of the vaccine? Just one example, Trump was kicked off twitter for 'misinformation'. That is limiting free speech IMO.

Is Twitter the government?

 

[Saintamaniac]

I find that the people who scream the most about limiting free speech know absolutely nothing about what it actually means with respect to constitutional rights. They are simply parroting what they have heard or been told to believe.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this is the best thread for this
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The so-called great replacement theory that helped motivate the 18-year-old alleged gunman in his reign of terror at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday is often presented as a fringe ideology.

But understand this: Large numbers of people have embraced the core fears at the heart of GRT as an organizing truth in their politics, their lives and their expectations to explain a future that feels out of their control.


That won’t likely change unless some White people work overtime to counterprogram the replacement narrative. This is the necessary work of White Americans because minorities cannot alone dismantle an exploitive brand of fearmongering that is built around their very existence.


A poll released just last week found that GRT has gone mainstream, with one-third of American adults saying they think there is a deliberate effort to replace native-born U.S. citizens with a wave of immigrants for political gain.

That same poll found that nearly half of Republicans agree to some extent that there’s a deliberate intent to increase the numbers of immigrant voters to minimize the cultural and political influence of Whites.

Those numbers should not be all that surprising. If you have spent any time examining how minorities in this country have been treated, you might reasonably be concerned about becoming one. That hard truth does not in any way justify the tenets of GRT.

It is rooted in racist and baseless beliefs about innate superiority and unquestionable white privilege. And it has gained traction quickly because politicians and right-wing screeds are working overtime to amplify the fear that White people are losing their place as the comfortable majority in the United States.

I am going to be careful here in saying that not all people who embrace some part of GRT are white supremacists. But GRT is firmly rooted in white-supremacist ideology.

It comes from a fear of losing automatic entitlements and opportunities if different people are allowed to stand as equals. It feeds on the worry that Whiteness is no longer the organizing force in everything that is understood to be quintessentially American, from history to beauty standards.

Whiteness in the United States has been socially engineered to be defined as the dominant cultural default, and majority status was the guarantee against that claim. A shift away from that has ushered in a period of tumult and vertigo for a growing number of people with the anxiety of not knowing what comes next…….

GRT is like the fertilizer that feeds and sustains white fear when America’s racial makeup is changing. These trends will continue and how that is explained — or alternatively exploited — will impact the safety and security of all Americans.

But Black and brown people cannot inoculate against fears that Whiteness is no longer America’s cultural default.

White people have to do that themselves.


White Americans who care about democracy, who believe in the principles of fairness and equality, who believe that “we” is a more powerful word than “them,” need to step into this space armed with facts and righteous truths.

White politicians, White business leaders, White clerics, White educators, White leaders and White influencers need to denounce the supremacist agenda at the core of GRT……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/16/white-americans-speak-against-great-replacement-theory/

 

[SystemShock]

Christian nationalist = Muslim extremist. The only difference between the two is the god they worship.

Not to nit-pick you, but technically, it is the same God

 

[V Chip]

I agree.
White is about 60% of the population and black about 13%.
Whites also commit about 55% of the violent crime and black commit about 33%. Would you agree to that stat?

https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf (page 5).

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045221