Black Lives Matter
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If that's the dynamism and eloquence of a 'trained' Marxist, I'd hate to see the 'untrained' version.
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I've got a facebook friend shouting loudly about how the whole world (i.e., Mercator projection) is racist and we have to do something how we in power created maps, on purpose, to center white in power.
After pointing out that it was developed to make maritime navigation easier, I've now been pointed to the following source, which proves - clearly - that the intention was racist.
I'm a bit speechless, as I agreed with the contention that it's a good idea to point out the problems with it's use, but apparently I have to also agree that the intentions of the Dutch mathematicians in the 16th century were to put black lives down. Or, I guess, I'm a racist?
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@canefan said in Black Lives Matter:
@gt12 I don't know where it will lead, but shit's getting out of hand
For a bit of fun go into google a do a search for:
"Is (insert anything here) racist?"
The results are pretty stunning. I will never look at Milk, sweet potatoes, Mondays, weather etc the same way again.
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@canefan said in Black Lives Matter:
NASCAR's one black driver asked if they could cease to display the Confederate flag at NASCAR events, which they agreed to. 10 days later he finds a noose in his garage stall. Crazy
A nice gesture of solidarity by Nascar.
Will be interesting if anything else comes from this. There's been a fair few 'fake noose' incidents in recent history. Hopefully there is some evidence as to where it came from so the perpetrators can be found.
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@Rembrandt said in Black Lives Matter:
Just came out
The bigotry of low expectations is designed to disenfranchise . Then you look to your saviour and you have a choice of a race hustler or a bloke that looks like a plantation owner...
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@antipodean
There's no "saviour".
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@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:
@antipodean
There's no "saviour".
You have to helpyourselfeach other.FIFY
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@JC said in Black Lives Matter:
@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:
@antipodean
There's no "saviour".
You have to helpyourselfeach other.FIFY
Totally agree !!!
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As an indication to the scale of the problem:
14 people including 5 children killed, more than 100 shot in Chicago over Father's Day weekend
the city's highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year
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@antipodean said in Black Lives Matter:
As an indication to the scale of the problem:
14 people including 5 children killed, more than 100 shot in Chicago over Father's Day weekend
the city's highest number of shooting victims in a single weekend this year
There was a pretty emotional interview with one of the police sergeants last weekend, media were asking him George Flloyd related questions and he was nearly in tears talking about how they now have less people available to attend problems and he was now just enroute to attend to 2 children who'd been caught up in a multiple homicide.
Black lives matter doesn't give a damn about black lives.
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Sums up about where a lot of folk are starting to sit with this
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Burnley FC promising lifetime bans for fans who flew a "white lives matter" banner. WTAF.