US police brutality item

[Shell B]

Minnesota violence: Clashes over death of black man in police custody

The despicable police brutality of the arresting officers in the states of this man which's in the press. Why is the race of the participants the OVERWHELMING primary issue, according to the press, and not considered to be necessarily IRRELEVANT in the name of colourblindness, equality, unity and harmony? Is there in fact ANY evidence the arresting officers are racist, and not just power tripping thugged out c*nts? I'm yet to see it, if so. BTW - if there is to be a race war; I will be a conscientious objector - that's the easiest decision I've ever had to make. Over to you, Morgan.

Mr. Freeman’s comments notwithstanding, I think it’s perfectly acceptable to identify race in a story about racism. It’s immaterial at this point whether the racism is real or perceived.

It would be lovely if everyone could be colourblind in the interest of racial harmony, but we’re not there yet. And we won’t be as long as white cops keep murdering black people with impunity.

Boru

I actually don't see the merits in being 100% colorblind. Are people so irredeemable as to require blinders in order not to hate? It's okay to notice someone looks different from you. It's just not okay to treat them differently or expect them to have different rights because of it. I love admiring the diversity in our appearance. It would be a shame if we had to pretend not to notice because racists can't handle having more than one type of sneech on the beach.

[Little lunch]

Nope, I want colour blindness.
Some mad genius puts a chemical in the water and we all turn green.
That'll fuck the racists up...on all sides.
None of us deserve to have different colours.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

What's worse than simple police brutality is when it's coupled with police indifference.

WARNING:  This shows an elderly man being shoved to the ground by police, and it's a little hard to watch.





Boru

[The Architect Of Fate]

I love recently how the right accuse the left of inciting violence while perfectly happy inciting state violence .

[Divinity]

What's worse than simple police brutality is when it's coupled with police indifference.

WARNING:  This shows an elderly man being shoved to the ground by police, and it's a little hard to watch.





Boru

Note that 57 Buffalo PD resigned from the unit after this.... because they think it was unfair they were suspended for just following orders.  Of course, they didn't resign from the police force.  Or give any care about the 75 year old man shoved to the ground by one of their officers, bleeding from his ear.  And people wonder why people are saying All Cops Are Bad.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

What's worse than simple police brutality is when it's coupled with police indifference.

WARNING:  This shows an elderly man being shoved to the ground by police, and it's a little hard to watch.





Boru

Note that 57 Buffalo PD resigned from the unit after this.... because they think it was unfair they were suspended for just following orders.  Of course, they didn't resign from the police force.  Or give any care about the 75 year old man shoved to the ground by one of their officers, bleeding from his ear.  And people wonder why people are saying All Cops Are Bad.

I haven’t seen their orders, but I’m fairly certain they didn’t include ‘Knock down elderly people and ignore any resulting injuries.’

Any cops who resigned because the higher-up decide that shove an old man to the ground is a bad thing are people you probably don’t want to have badges and guns in the first place.

Boru

[Duty]

Mr. Freeman’s comments notwithstanding, I think it’s perfectly acceptable to identify race in a story about racism. It’s immaterial at this point whether the racism is real or perceived.

It would be lovely if everyone could be colourblind in the interest of racial harmony, but we’re not there yet. And we won’t be as long as white cops keep murdering black people with impunity.

Boru

I actually don't see the merits in being 100% colorblind. Are people so irredeemable as to require blinders in order not to hate? It's okay to notice someone looks different from you. It's just not okay to treat them differently or expect them to have different rights because of it. I love admiring the diversity in our appearance. It would be a shame if we had to pretend not to notice because racists can't handle having more than one type of sneech on the beach.

I try to view "race" as being on a par with male pattern baldness, needing spectacles, being tall/short etc - a physical manifestation of genetics which should incur no advantage or disadvantage and is not worth mentioning in fact, as the individual a) is not responsible for the feature and b) there is no logical reason that feature should be judged important, overwhelmingly. 

Note that all of the features I cited at the start of this post have/do at some time attract negative stigma and fallout, sadly, due to cultural fuckups and ignorance, like with racism. Perseverance is needed and other platitudes...there is hope, yes indeed.

[tackattack]

I’m not sure comparing systemic racism and childhood bullying for wearing glasses and being called 4 eyes to N****r will win many people over in this argument, but I can echo that the value of words vs value of traits is an important point to discuss. Notice I said discuss and not dismiss.

[Agnostico]

Color blind

[Duty]

Apologies for the format, quoting technique fail:

Boru said: "I think it’s perfectly acceptable to identify race in a story about racism."

My reply to that is that perhaps you should review the thread title, which I created, much as Yahweh created his cup of coffee this morning.