Black Lives Matter
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Wait...are they racist or just arseholes? Stop reporting on them doing nasty things to people and not citing the colour of these people, it's confusing and unfair!
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Interesting take on proceedings
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Gone in 86,400 seconds
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@MiketheSnow unknown artist tries to make name for himself, succeeds.
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@Dice said in Black Lives Matter:
Quite sad to see the police just watch and do nothing as this guy gets bullied.
The bald chick repeating, ''shame on you'', cracks me up for some reason though.
Gary McFarlane first class cu*t playing the race card.
Roles reversed and white man verbally and physically stops black man's legal right to peaceful public protest and the airwaves and ether would have gone in to meltdown.
Same with the gobby 'blonde' 'i have no interest in what you want to say', pushing and shoving knowing she's got a free play.
Ignorant bullies come in all colours and both sexes.
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A good example of how SJWs have wormed their way into previously highly thought of neutral institutions.
AP says it will capitalize Black but not white
After changing its usage rules last month to capitalize the word “Black” when used in the context of race and culture, The Associated Press on Monday said it would not do the same for “white.”
The AP said white people in general have much less shared history and culture, and don’t have the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color.
Protests following the death of George Floyd, which led to discussions of policing and Confederate symbols, also prompted many news organizations to examine their own practices and staffing. The Associated Press, whose Stylebook is widely influential in the industry, announced June 19 it would make Black uppercase.
In some ways, the decision over “white” has been more ticklish. The National Association of Black Journalists and some Black scholars have said white should be capitalized, too.
“We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore these problems,” John Daniszewski, the AP’s vice president for standards, said in a memo to staff Monday. “But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.”
Columbia Journalism Review, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, NBC News and Chicago Tribune are among the organizations that have recently said they would capitalize Black but have not done so for white.
“White doesn’t represent a shared culture and history in the way Black does,” The New York Times said on July 5 in explaining its decision.
CNN, Fox News and The San Diego Union-Tribune said they will give white the uppercase, noting it was consistent with Black, Asian, Latino and other ethnic groups. Fox cited NABJ’s advice.
CBS News said it would capitalize white, although not when referring to white supremacists, white nationalists or white privilege.
Some proponents believe that keeping white lowercase is actually anti-Black, saying it perpetuates the idea that whites are the default race.
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“Whiteness remains invisible, and as is the case with all power structures, its invisibility does crucial work to maintain its power,” wrote Eve Ewing, a sociologist of race and education at the University of Chicago who said she’s changed her mind on the issue over the past two years.“In maintaining the pretense of its invisibility, whiteness maintains the pretense of its inevitability, and its innocence,” she wrote on the website Nora.
Kwame Anthony Appiah, a philosophy professor at New York University, wrote in the Atlantic that capitalizing white would take power away from racists, since their similar use “would no longer be a provocative defiance of the norm.”
The AP checked with a variety of experts and sources in making its decision.
“We will closely watch how usage and thought evolves, and will periodically review our decision,” Daniszewski said.
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@Snowy said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@canefan kareem is a good voice
"I'm out there busting my buns every night"
Between that above and this scene there’s nothing not to love about Kareem Abdul Jabbars movie career
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Another fine explanation of what we can see but can't quite understand. Well researched, objective and some clarity from a man who used to proudly support blm.
One excerpt: 94% of police killing unarmed people are males. That's highly disproportionate of the population. Are the police overtly sexist too?
Anyway, Coleman makes many points grounded in reality.
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@raznomore said in Black Lives Matter:
Obviously there need to be more people within the Black(made sure I capitalised the B..) community coming forward and denouncing their own racism.
I just want to know how long anyone thinks that will take?
It’s ok, they have a 400 year window. Apparently.
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@Bones Aussie woman shot in Minnesota last year after she called police and then ran out to greet them. That sort of thing I guess.
Also there are some feral sheilas out there...Edit : sorry should clarify, it's the sex of the person shot by the police. The inference being that black victims comprise 35% yet only make up 16% of the population, ergo cops are racist. Yet the same comparison suggesting cops must be sexist too doesn't hold water.
We know that men commit more violent crime than women but we're not allowed to say that black men commit more violent crime than other races
There have of course been female officers involved in shooting unarmed civilians.