US police brutality item

[Fake Messiah]

Tucker Carlson talks against police brutality
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[Rev. Rye]

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.

Given that A) the concept of race as we understand it exists solely because people were fucking with other nations whose people looked very different from them And wanted an easy excuse to treat them as less than them, and B) the concept is still going strong even as we figured out colonialism and slavery were bad things, it makes a hell of a lot of sense to me. And, frankly, if, after over a half a century of us trying to overcome that hurdle, with society trying to drum the issue that racism is bad into our heads, we still end up with a President whose platform consists solely of vague bullshit and racism in varying levels of ambiguity (after a campaign of over 16 months spent of him doing nothing but acting like a wrestling heel very publicly, mind you), I fear we might have actually just reached that point of irredeemability.

That said, doing so will be little more effective than ignoring the big fucking African Elephant bull that’s going through musth on the other side of your room, but it’s not like the last eight or so years have helped in this regard.

[Mermaid]

Tucker Carlson talks against police brutality
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Fuck Tucker Carlson.

[Brian37]

Tucker Carlson talks against police brutality
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Brilliant editing. 

Tucker is a self entitled a-hole who doesn't understand there is a huge difference between the civil unrest of the abused, and the authoritarian rule of a police state.

You can't simply sell the idea of "just obey". Consent of the governed matters. Which is ironic because when Tea partiers shit their pants when Obama was first elected, they screamed abuse of authority even before he took his oath.

And that network has consistently sold nationalism and blind loyalty to authority.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I get that Carlson's a cunt and a half, but be honest - if someone did the same sort of editing on comments by Obama, we'd be livid.

Why is it ok to do it to someone we dislike, but not when it happens to someone we admire?

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

I get that Carlson's a cunt and a half, but be honest - if someone did the same sort of editing on comments by Obama, we'd be livid.

Why is it ok to do it to someone we dislike, but not when it happens to someone we admire?

Boru

This is not on a personal level, so if Obama was saying those same words full of hypocrisy, then he would deserve the same edit to reveal his hypocrisy.

[The Grand Nudger]

@Rev

We've spent half a century instilling racial apathy, not combating racial antipathy.  White supremacists took notice, and tailored their recruiting propaganda to work in the context of racial apathy.

[Duty]

This is the original thread on this here so I'll put this here:

I just heard on the radio about the tragic death of a mentally ill man, Tony Timpa, at the hands of Dallas police in 2016. He died in almost identical circumstances to George Floyd, except that the police were even laughing and joking as they crushed the life out of him. There are yet to be any riots over his death AFAIK. Be warned - the video in this link is distressing. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...tony-timpa

Tony Timpa, 32, died in August 2016 as he was restrained by three police officers in a Dallas parking lot. Timpa had called 911 to say he had come off his medication for schizophrenia and depression and needed help.

In the bodycam video, finally obtained by the Dallas Morning News, Timpa, who had been handcuffed by store security guards, is pinned to the ground in a prone position with a knee on his back as he pleads with police to release him.

“You’re going to kill me!” Timpa shouts repeatedly.

The three officers laugh and joke as they restrain Timpa on the ground. One officer mocks Timpa as a “roly-poly”. As he becomes unresponsive, with his face in the grass, the officers joke that he has fallen asleep. When Timpa finally stops moving, the trio continue their mockery.

[Mister Agenda]

Maybe if there had been more protest of Tony Timpa's murder, reforms would have happened four years ago instead today. White people don't deserve a cookie and a medal for not being outraged enough to demonstrate after something like that.

[The Grand Nudger]

Are you going to stand up and bark everytime you hear the whistle Editz? You're right, crickets, but why do you think we're hearing about it now?

Truth be told, the recruiters who peddle this don't give a shit about the whites™ anymore than they care about black people. They only care about a white man being murdered by cops when it helps them harm black people. It's a standard hypocrisy narrative leaning on the usual white supremacist victim ideology. Racist redditors and content creators pushed it, and since many people were saying™, the news just haaaad to cover it. That's the SOP, if it weren't clear to you before.

(A simple google search, btw, would have shown you that there has been interest and coverage of the incident every year since it happened, as well as it's constant use as white supremacist propaganda over the same period.)