Black Lives Matter
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@Frank dude that is awful. You were absolutely the bigger person to put that down to individuals rather than a group of people. That must have been terrifying.
In stark contrast to an old family acquaintance/friend(ish) who moved to oz to work in the mines maybe early 2000s. He got beaten up by some aborginies while on the piss one night. The next time I caught up with him in nz he had gone off the deep end with racial hate. He'd lumped all brown people in together, and I don't doubt mining culture didn't help his worldview. The stuff he'd say was abohrant, and he didn't think anything of sharing it.
He had also picked up some serious homophobia, to the extent of starting a fight with a friend at golf... because the guy swapped his white ball for a pink one.
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@Paekakboyz said in Black Lives Matter:
@Frank dude that is awful. You were absolutely the bigger person to put that down to individuals rather than a group of people. That must have been terrifying.
In stark contrast to an old family acquaintance/friend(ish) who moved to oz to work in the mines maybe early 2000s. He got beaten up by some aborginies while on the piss one night. The next time I caught up with him in nz he had gone off the deep end with racial hate. He'd lumped all brown people in together, and I don't doubt mining culture didn't help his worldview. The stuff he'd say was abohrant, and he didn't think anything of sharing it.
He had also picked up some serious homophobia, to the extent of starting a fight with a friend at golf... because the guy swapped his white ball for a pink one.
A flatmate of my mate in London had his Dad and uncle murdered by farm workers when Mugabe gave the green light for some social justice in Zimbabwe a few years back. He was not shy about his opinion on black folk and he was a very angry young man. 3 years after meeting him he found Jesus and became a regular charlie church at a very multicultural church, all that hatred which once devoured him was now gone.
I think you can link a lot of these stories to the same underlying problem. Treating people as a collective rather than as individuals. Evil starts when you start to feed off of your resentment and look to correct a perceived wrong by enacting out your own punishment on others who may share a characteristic of someone who wronged you. You then call it justice. This resentment is very easy to feed and there are plenty of groups that aim to do just that.
We seem to be walking further and further away from treating people as individuals and looking towards forgiving wrongs.
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@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:
Complete fuckin' wild noose chase.
I saw his interview on CNN where he seemed to double-down on the "It was a noose!".
Actually feel sorry for the guy now. He played up to the part enough to be slammed for it now thanks to Jussie's exploits. In the end he's likely innocent but he is the one who really is getting the fallout for other peoples mistakes.
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@Duluth said in Black Lives Matter:
@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
It’s crazy that anyone took this claim seriously
All part of the white man’s FBI covering it up.
Sorry I thought this was the favourite conspiracy theory thread...
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@Rembrandt that’s the beauty and tragedy of the Norman story.
He saw two individual athletes who had a common cause and because he saw them for who they were he made the choice to act.
The tragedy is that the overwhelming reaction he got back home was an unwillingness to see him as a person who had made a choice but rather just focused on “the problem”.
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@barbarian said in Black Lives Matter:
They find a noose in this guy's locker. A pretty provocative thing to find, so they decided to launch an investigation.
Was it a noose? I’ve never been in the market for one but Surely the ability to fit a human head would be a required feature for a noose?
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This could be in the US Politics,BLM or the Coronavirus threads.
Amazingly, it covers all 3 bases.Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/oregon-county-issues-face-mask-order-exempting-non-white-people/
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@Frank said in Black Lives Matter:
This could be in the US Politics,BLM or the Coronavirus threads.
Amazingly, it covers all 3 bases.Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/23/oregon-county-issues-face-mask-order-exempting-non-white-people/
Reported that BAME are more susceptible to Covid-19
Great way to safeguard that reported susceptibility
Doh
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I just...how does nobody see the irony? Baffling.
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@Paekakboyz said in Black Lives Matter:
I don't know man, noose's are pretty topical.
And extremely handy for opening and closing garage doors.
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@Snowy said in Black Lives Matter:
As a captain I took the same approach. Others didn't, which led to far more serious violent incidents. One rather amusing one was a first officer sticking a flashlight up a guys ass in a scuffle on board. How exactly that happened I don't know, and don't want to.
Or, as political hard-man and former BT Captain, Norman Tebbit once said: "A quiet chat with a rowdy usually calmed things down -particularly when they saw I was carrying a fire-axe.
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When did Christians become so funny? The world seems the absolute inverse of 25 years ago.
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@Bones said in Black Lives Matter:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/kristen-bell-jenny-slate-quit-22248809
Don’t pay the no heed, they’re just racist 🙄
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@Catogrande said in Black Lives Matter:
@Bones said in Black Lives Matter:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/kristen-bell-jenny-slate-quit-22248809
Don’t pay the no heed, they’re just racist 🙄
Wait...who?