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A black woman in Chicago goes off on being denied her right to loot a store by armed men: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/06/08/watch-black-woman-goes-on-a-tirade-because-shes-unable-to-loot-a-neighborhood-store-n2570194 What 100 years of democrat controlled education and politics have brought us. You almost feel sorry for her being denied her right to loot.

“It’s just their culture. You have to respect that.”

From https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/gulna2/i_used_to_teach_in_a_black_inner_city_school/

I used to teach in a black inner city school. Their issues are their own fault and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.

 

But note it is not about race and education (see author pointing out real Africans snf people from Latino background, exposed to the same education system, perform differently). It is about cult of "we are victims, so we got special rights", To some degree, the same problem we see in our pro-Ukrainians.

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Well, everybody else among her friends probably did get a chance to loot. So it's patently unfair that she can't, because of these foreign gangsters, protecting shit that she doesn't want, anyway.

 

 

 

I don't know if I should weep, or laugh. So much fail.

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A black woman in Chicago goes off on being denied her right to loot a store by armed men: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2020/06/08/watch-black-woman-goes-on-a-tirade-because-shes-unable-to-loot-a-neighborhood-store-n2570194 What 100 years of democrat controlled education and politics have brought us. You almost feel sorry for her being denied her right to loot.

“It’s just their culture. You have to respect that.”

From https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/gulna2/i_used_to_teach_in_a_black_inner_city_school/

I used to teach in a black inner city school. Their issues are their own fault and I’m tired of pretending otherwise.

 

But note it is not about race and education (see author pointing out real Africans snf people from Latino background, exposed to the same education system, perform differently). It is about cult of "we are victims, so we got special rights", To some degree, the same problem we see in our pro-Ukrainians.

 

Roman, in the U.S. this is called liberalism. It has prostituted the Democratic Party in the U.S. Liberalism is the greatest threat to the U.S. Liberalism has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever!

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Well, everybody else among her friends probably did get a chance to loot. So it's patently unfair that she can't, because of these foreign gangsters, protecting shit that she doesn't want, anyway.

 

 

 

I don't know if I should weep, or laugh. So much fail.

Good point.

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If they defund police in major cities (as opposed to abolishing the entire department), won't that just cause asset forfeiture and fines to go through the roof in order to compensate for lost funds?

 

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Why do you follow something like Twitter?

 

Just asking...

 

In spite of their attempts to shadow ban conservatives, it's a very good source for info and links that you can't find somewhere else. It's getting harder but still a useful tool.

 

 

It's 99% chaff and 1% grain.

 

Cannot compress things into 250 characters.

 

 

I'd rather sort through that and find the truth than have someone else I don't trust tell me what the truth is supposed to be. It's good for links and longer tweets can be turned into a thread. It's also a window into the soul of the Left, and not a pretty one.

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The logic behind the movement's anger at being denied the right to loot is connected to its anger at being denied reparations.The irony is that dragging out the reparations denial process in the form of incremental concessions is itself beneficial. For instance, were a reparations plan to be implemented, resistance to the abolition of affirmative action would likely remain.

 

WRT social media, America has unleashed a self-sustaining entity that is in the process of destroying its old media competitors. Some form of regulation it is inevitable in the next few decades, once big government figures out it can levy big taxes on it.

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The logic behind the movement's anger at being denied the right to loot is connected to its anger at being denied reparations.The irony is that dragging out the reparations denial process in the form of incremental concessions is itself beneficial. For instance, were a reparations plan to be implemented, resistance to the abolition of affirmative action would likely rem

Indeed. I'm strongly opposed to reparations because I don't think that's a rabbit hole we should be going down, there's no end to it and it forces you to quantify relative suffering. I won the proverbial lottery being born in America at this time in human history and even the poorest among us generally live better than most of the rest of the planet. As horrible as slavery was, their descendants are here and experience unprecedented opportunity.

 

Black Lives Matter is simply a carrier wave, not the message. The real message is not equality of opportunity, or the same rules applying to everyone across the board as it was during the civil rights movement. The message is intersectional identity ideologies espousing group identity over the individual, and different rules for different groups of people based on where they're perceived to be on the hierarchy of systemic oppression. Precisely the opposite of what so many strove to achieve during the civil rights movement. Many don't want to stop the pendulum, they want it to swing the other way and feel entitled to it.

 

It continues to gain popularity because the carrier wave is hard to say no to. There's no room for nuance and people will aggressively cancel and berate you before you can explain yourself. If you don't embrace it, you're just racist.

 

Under this mindset, if you're part of a marginalized group and you commit a crime, it's social justice, reparations, you're entitled to it and anyone who disagrees should check their privileged. Even those who don't condone it look the other way at least. It reminds me of living in the Philippines where airmen were instructed to retreat to the top floor of their home should a break in occur, call the police, and allow the locals to steal what they want. Only if they try and come up the stairs can you take action against the intruder. On the other hand, if a crime is committed by someone who is perceived to be higher on the hierarchy of oppression against someone who is marginalized, then it's automatically a hate crime regardless of the infraction and the state should absolutely crucify them.

 

Jordan Peterson was spot on. It's a culture issue, but that's Voldemort to talk about because if you bring that up, you're again racist. Now, I wouldn't be opposed to the argument that systemic racism in centuries past cultivated the culture. Socioeconomic status does indeed influence things, everything is connected, but the fact remains that if everyone protesting

 

1. Recognized the inconsistency, hypocrisy, and double standards espoused (ignoring black on black crime for instance)

2. Rejected intersectional identity ideologies (you're an individual first, and must be taken as an individual and not a representative of a group arbitrarily defined ad infinitum)

3. Took individual responsibility for your own actions

4. While our children will almost certainly experience prejudice, even systemic, during their lifetimes, stop teaching them that oppression and victimhood is central to their very being. It's not who they are, at worst it's something done to them. That's a toxic mentality that sets them up for failure and just ensures they can never be absent that mindset, for who would they be without it? It perpetuates it.

 

Everyone who is protesting does that, and you change a culture. You change a culture, you change a generation, and you do that and you change the world.

 

But that's hard, it's a big ship to steer and people prefer the metaphorical student running for class president who just tells them whatever they want to hear and how easy it is.

 

Meanwhile...

 

 

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Appease and appease, so you virtue signal and don't appear racist.

 

Surely they'll stop at Czechoslovakia...

 

 

 

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Some slack jawed jerk yells the N word at a black woman and she might get 3 years in prison and a $3,500 fine? That's insane. She's a racist D bag but the first amendment gives her the right to be a racist D bag.

 

Plainfield woman charged with using racial slur in Norwich Starbucks incident

Published June 08. 2020 4:48PM | Updated June 09. 2020 9:31AM
By Claire Bessette Day staff writer

 

Norwich — City police on Monday charged a 22-year-old Plainfield woman with using a racial slur during an incident outside a Starbucks coffee shop last week.

 

Holly Chalifoux, 22, of 10 Simmons Ave., Moosup, was charged at noon Monday with third-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias in the June 2 incident. The charge is a Class E felony punishable by up to three years in prison and up to a $3,500 fine, with a minimum fine of $1,000.

 

The alleged victim in the case, Marcela Lee, had her cellphone camera recording and captured the driver shouting a threat at her, with the “n-word” being uttered in the background while leaving the Starbucks drive-thru. Lee said the driver behind her, who police say was Chalifoux, had been revving her engine and yelling at her that she was late for work.

 

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Chalifoux initially told police she used different language but she could understand how that statement could be confused with the racial slur.

 

When police offered to play Lee's video, the affidavit stated, "the accused hung her head down and said she didn't want to review the video and admitted that she had said 'that word.'"

 

Police said Chalifoux attempted to explain her reaction by saying she was pregnant, had quit smoking and drinking, and could not take her anxiety medication, the affidavit stated.

 

Chalifoux wrote and signed a sworn statement admitting to the incident and language similar to what the video revealed. She also stated she knew the woman in the car in front of her was black before she made the racial slur, because she could see her at the drive-thru window.

 

"The accused continued her statement stating she understood she was wrong, but felt the victim was wrong too for recording her."

 

Free on a $25,000 non-surety bond, Chalifoux is due to appear July 30 in Norwich Superior Court.

 

Reached by phone Monday evening, Chalifoux said she was upset and had apologized and felt she already was suffering consequences, as people were already sharing news stories of her arrest and she was receiving harrassing comments. She said she felt the incident would follow her "the rest of my life."

 

Lee said police had contacted her Monday afernoon to inform her of the arrest. Lee said she was "proud" of the way Norwich police handled the investigation and that they took her complaint seriously.

 

"I think it’s a win for our entire comunity," Lee said. "The stand our entire nation and world are taking right now is that we are not going to take this kind of abuse anymore. We’re not going to tolerate it."

 

Lee said she was unconvinced of Chalifoux's sincerity in the signed statement police described in the affidavit, because Chalifoux allegedly admitted to making the comments only after learning from police the comments were captured on video.

 

Shiela Hayes, president of the Norwich branch of the NAACP, also commended police and Starbucks employees for assisting police and for treating the incident seriously.

 

Hayes and Lee both said they plan to follow the case through the court system.

 

Hayes said she was disturbed by Chalifoux's alleged comment to police that she "wouldn't normally use the racial slur," the affidavit stated.

"It is fitting into the pattern," Hayes said, "that when people who use racially motivated, threatening, derogatory words, when they’re caught, then it’s: ‘Well, no, that’s not the way I speak, that wasn’t my intent.’ How do we get individuals to understand you can no longer use that as a cover?"

 

https://www.theday.com/article/20200608/NWS04/200609583

 

 

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My solution for hate speech, inspired by Col. Steele in Mogadishu:

 

"They're shooting at us, sir!"

 

"SHOOT BACK!"

 

Honestly, I think the culture wars are brought about due to the destruction of the family, via whatever means. My time working in jail medicine has shown me, yes, the hand that rocks the cradle truly rules the world.

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Appease and appease, so you virtue signal and don't appear racist.

 

Surely they'll stop at Czechoslovakia...

 

 

 

 

That is not appeasement. Nature magazine is not trying to appease anyone, Nature is one of the forces behind marxist-racism.

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The logic behind the movement's anger at being denied the right to loot is connected to its anger at being denied reparations.The irony is that dragging out the reparations denial process in the form of incremental concessions is itself beneficial. For instance, were a reparations plan to be implemented, resistance to the abolition of affirmative action would likely remain.

 

There's no movement behind the looters and no logic beyond want and take. These people are not listening to BLM and academia. They're just products of the upbringing we saw a couple of posts up about school.

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Seattle has withdrawn police from about a six block radius that has been taken over by about 200 radicals who didn't think it through very well. On the plus side, they're already trying to acquire chemical weapons so if they get a little oil that's grounds for invasion!

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What now?

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We're hungry, send vegan food.

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If the city and state aren't interested in stopping this sort of thing, and the media wants to downplay it, I don't really blame Trump for being quiet on this one. Let it play out. If he intervenes, it just plays into the narrative that he wants to be dictator. Hold the state Governor accountable for their failures. When decades of Democrat policy starts to collapse, you don't try and bail it out you get out of the way and let it...


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I'm no logistician, but supplying freshwater by drone seems quite unfeasible.

 

Discipline??? Ah hell, here come the commissars.

 

Hey reddit, are you sure this doesn't violate community standards?

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From the City-Journal piece

 

 

Hooded men spray-painted the police station with slogans and anarchist symbols, renaming it the “Seattle People’s Department East Precinct.” Raz Simone, a local rapper with an AK-47 slung from his shoulder and a pistol attached to his hip, screamed, “This is war!” into a white-and-red megaphone and instructed armed paramilitaries to guard the barricades in shifts. Later in the night, Simone was filmed allegedly assaulting multiple protestors who disobeyed his orders, informing them that he was the "police" now, sparking fears that he was becoming the de facto warlord of the autonomous zone. A homeless man with a baseball bat wandered along the borderline and two unofficial medics in medieval-style chain mail stood ready for action.

 

We have seen this movie before. So, first order of business is to make sure that Air Force One does not fly over Seattle with the President onboard.

 

Second order of business, we're gonna need more popcorn.

 

I'm sorry, I know at heart this is tragic, but that bit from the Reddit piece where the only item mentioned for dealing with alternative water sources was relying on drones had me laughing my ass off. Why am I picturing the author as a 20-year old gamer whose only reference point for anything is video games, movies and subreddits?

 

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Since banning and toppling is now the lockdown activity de rigeur, I didn’t want to be left out, so have decided to add to the list:

– The Colosseum – hotbed of slave suffering and anti-Christian persecution. Turn it in to a car park, I say. Whilst we’re at it, the Pyramids and Acropolis didn’t build themselves, so send in the JCBs.

– The Guardian newspaper – founded by a man whose fortune was made on the back of the slave-intense cotton trade. Naughty.

– The Labour party – one of the founding organisations was the Fabian society, which, in the early 1900s called for eugenics and forced sterilisation. Off with your heads.

– Jeeves and Wooster – we all remember how they blacked up as minstrels in one of their episodes? Silence them.

– Most of Southern Spain – conquered and occupied by the Moors for over 300 years, around 1 million white Europeans were sold IN to the African slave trade (well before European colonialisation, Africa had booming slave markets). The historical legacy is everywhere, not least in those colonial place names (Al-Andalus, Al-Meria, Qurtoba) – abolish the lot.

– Scandinavians – what were they up to, sending their vikings over and enslaving our tribes? Actually, add the bloody Normans to that too.

– Mongolia – rapist-in-chief warlord, who had more slaves in his tenure than ever existed in the Western colonial slave trade, and killed 40 million people during his rampages. Apparently, there are 16,000,000 living direct descendants of his wayward penis. No yurts for you.

– Ghandi – Had a few unsavoury things to say about black Africans. No more blacked-up Ben Kingsley for you.

– All of us – that’s right, there is virtually no one alive today who is not the product of what is today considered paedophilia. Women were often married off as children, and started giving birth at 12 or 13, so we should no-platform ourselves and our ancestors.

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We could just grow the fuck up and consider that man has evolved faster in the last 3,000 years than any other species on this planet. We have gone from cave dwellers to sending humans in to space in a period of time that is barely a blink in the cosmic scale.

To apply our 21st century morality on our ancestors is so completely ridiculous, as to defy morality or reason. To educate our youth fairly and equitably on our progression is a far more powerful tool than to deny our pasts. This attempt to pretend that Britain has a history only to be ashamed of is not only factually incorrect, but so counter-productive and divisive, that we will make whatever problems we think we have, far, far worse.

 

 

https://www.samizdata.net/2020/06/lording-it-over-history-can-get-out-of-hand/

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The Guardian Slavery legacy - should this newspaper be "toppled"?

 

Guardian columnists are revelling in the destruction of imperfect historical figures, perhaps unaware their employer’s past is one rooted in being on the side of the US Confederacy and opposition to Abraham Lincoln. Will Black Lives Matter protestors begin marching towards 90 York Way?

Back in the 1860s, The Manchester Guardian gave unqualified support to the confederacy during the American civil war; even reprinting confederate propaganda against the slaves’ liberator Abraham Lincoln.

“it was an evil day both for America and the world when he was chosen President of the United States”

Manchester Guardian, 10
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October 1862

Upon the news of President Lincoln’s assassination, the Guardian described the president’s time in office as “abhorrent”, specifically the Proclamation of Emancipation – the act that declared “all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

Perhaps the opposition to emancipation of slaves was driven by the views of their founder, John Edward Taylor, who made his money in the cotton trade – an industry that prospered on the backs of cotton-picking slaves. After the death of their founder in 1844, the paper continued its relationship with its cotton merchant advertisers, going as far as demanding Manchester’s cotton workers, who refused to touch cotton picked by US slaves, should be forced back into work. Guido’s proud that his heritage is rooted in a history of toiling to end the despotic rule of oppressive leaders…

 

 

 

 

https://order-order.com/2020/06/10/guardian-must-fall/

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