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#Blacklivesmat
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Warning, graphic content. Tamir Rice shot within two seconds. Cops just jumping out of the car and opening fire at a boy with a toy gun. Remembering my childhood, I could have been Tamir, growing up in a different country, having the wrong skin color.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video...ing-police ![[Image: Bumper+Sticker+-+Asheville+-+Praise+Dog3.JPG]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-d-3rfdI7nG0%2FTerwtFyFXoI%2FAAAAAAAACak%2F7kFSmHeVrng%2Fs320%2FBumper%2BSticker%2B-%2BAsheville%2B-%2BPraise%2BDog3.JPG)
Well, let's take stroll down the road that would make you happy with this "all lives matter":
We see high profile case of blacks being treated unfairly and brutally by police to an absurd level. This causes a stir in the black and other communities, so in response to the issue they chant... #AllLivesMatter? Like, just a friendly reminder? Why would they do that? Seems like they'd get to the meat of the problem if they chanted #BlackLivesMatter. See how that doesn't shine any light on the situation? Where's the focus? As for black on black crime, is anybody arguing in favor of it? Would raising people's awareness that #CrimeIsBad be helpful? Seems like a given. But thats what the cops are supposed to be there for. Instead we see what we see.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay." For context, this is the previous verse: "Hi Jesus" -robvalue 
Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator  Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope? (September 1, 2015 at 8:59 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: This is frustrating. Then why choose that specific slogan? If that really is the message they're trying to send then why not go with something like #endpolicebrutality or #endracism. It would be inclusive of hispanics and other races too.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech 
Goddamn! It's the Wild Wild West up in the AF tonight, isn't it? Incest, Bizarro Doctors, what's next? Anyone?
 (September 1, 2015 at 8:59 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(September 1, 2015 at 8:53 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: Right, so black lives only matter when there is the possibility of racism involved as a motivation for the killing? Upon this point I feel the need to point out that as a middle-aged white Canadian woman, I am also very afraid of police brutality.  (September 1, 2015 at 9:09 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote:(September 1, 2015 at 8:59 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: This is frustrating. I don't know. Why did the guy who founded TTA call it "The Thinking Atheist"? He's obviously not the only Atheist who thinks...
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
(September 1, 2015 at 9:12 pm)MTL Wrote:(September 1, 2015 at 8:59 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: This is frustrating. As a not-quite-middle-aged white USian woman, I am too because I have been a victim of it.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
 (September 1, 2015 at 8:57 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: Jeez Kusa at least I didn't actually offer any stats to back up what I said and didn't supply the source. At least post a link to prove those stats aren't made up. That's not my MO. I do hit and run memes. Finding real data is too much like work. I'm in it for the fun.
Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope? (September 1, 2015 at 9:06 pm)Exian Wrote: Well, let's take stroll down the road that would make you happy with this "all lives matter": Right, because you wouldn't understand their point if they chanted #AllLivesMatter? after the very public death of a black man at the hands of a white person.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
Bad Wolf
Compulsive procrastinator Religious Views: Agnostic atheist, anti-theist, whovian, misanthrope? (September 1, 2015 at 9:13 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: I don't know. Why did the guy who founded TTA call it "The Thinking Atheist"? He's obviously not the only Atheist who thinks... That's not the same thing and you know it. Out of curiosity, is there a website that #Blacklivesmatter has? One that explains the reason for their group? If there is, I'd be grateful to learn more about the subject
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House “Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom "If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech |
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