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Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 5:30 am
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RE: Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 8:59 am
I just think some people are idiots, but I'm not willing to engage in group thinking. The people who were rioting are idiots. That's definitely the case, and the world should hear about it.
So are the cops who go too far. So are white racists.
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RE: Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 9:32 am
This is an Atheism forum, not a fucking ku klux klan roundup.
There's quite a few black members here, does anyone see them rounding up support against white people?
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RE: Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 10:13 am
Gee, who knew that if you systematically deny people their civil rights they'll act like animals?
Sure, it's sad that people react and behave in such a manner, and I don't condone it whatsoever. But at least it brings the racist assholes like the guy in the video out of the woordwork. I mean, the guy's every word is practically dripping with racism, and he makes sure to frame the whole situation as a black vs. white problem while speaking of black people as a monolithic bloc and never once mentioning the culture of distrust cultivated by the police in this nation. Then he goes on to mock black people for playing the victim while simultaneously whining about the poor white people that were victims of crime by black perpetrators, of which he is able to cite two whole instances.
How are we ever going to fix the racial tension in this country when the reaction of the privileged to such a complex situation is "look at how unruly black people are?"
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RE: Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 10:53 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 10:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
IKR, because the thing to take away from this has little to do with institutional inequality or the entirely predictable breakdown of civil society, a broad and justifiable lack of confidence in the basic premise of american culture is uninteresting and unimportant....how irritating the opposing infotainment networks coverage is, otoh....
Well, lets talk about that.
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RE: Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 10:57 am
Well, a disgusting racist showing how the left media isn't doing it's job. It doesn't get any more comedic than that.
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RE: Milwalkee riots
August 17, 2016 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: August 17, 2016 at 11:10 am by Faith No More.)
(August 17, 2016 at 8:44 am)A Theist Wrote: Anyone tell the goofy dipshit that his lazy ass is going to have to get a job if he wants money?
Anyone tell you goofy dipshit that he's had some stellar inner-city American education that in no way leaves him prepared to hold a real job?
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