Black Lives Matter
-
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
Do we need to settle the "argument" of whether Chauvin was racist? Why is that relevant?
Am I missing something here, how is it not? Every news article I saw flash up on the screen this morning was about the racial side of it. I thought it was a cop killing a suspected perp?
Surely we the courts judged him on whether he murdered or manslaughtered (yes, its word) a person, not a black person.
You'd hope so, but do we really think that?
I was just taken aback at the gym this morning (did I mention I work out) that every time I caught a TV screen, there was someone yapping on about racist this, racist that (at least that's what the subtitles said, maybe not verbatim).
-
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
Do we need to settle the "argument" of whether Chauvin was racist? Why is that relevant?
Am I missing something here, how is it not? Every news article I saw flash up on the screen this morning was about the racial side of it. I thought it was a cop killing a suspected perp?
Surely we the courts judged him on whether he murdered or manslaughtered (yes, its word) a person, not a black person.
You'd hope so, but do we really think that?
I was just taken aback at the gym this morning (did I mention I work out) that every time I caught a TV screen, there was someone yapping on about racist this, racist that (at least that's what the subtitles said, maybe not verbatim).
Dunno mate, who knows how the jury looked at it. I'd like to think the evidence of his actions were what convinced them and that the same conclusion would have been reached if he'd killed a white bloke. Maybe that's naive.
I certainly agree the media has gone to town on the racial angle. As have many of the protestors.
-
So what do we call a black cop ( or hispanic) that kills a black perp?
Data from Sam Harris indicates this is more prevalent than white on black. Definitely more black cops assault black perps.
So what's the story? Is police brutality the crux of the issue or racism?
Is it BLM or CLM? (criminals lives matter). -
@siam said in Black Lives Matter:
So justice is served, and Minneapolis can be riot free, right?
Something which I found interesting (which you may as well) is that apparently Minneapolis has had rioting issues in about 100 sq metres of the city. All the news I've been watching continuously shows Minneapolis in a complete state of unrest.
However, when you scratch the surface, it seems that it's only a tiny part of the city. Same as Portland.
It's still rioting of course, but I guess like when it happens in London, it's relatively easy to avoid.
-
@siam said in Black Lives Matter:
So what do we call a black cop ( or hispanic) that kills a black perp?
Data from Sam Harris indicates this is more prevalent than white on black. Definitely more black cops assault black perps.
So what's the story? Is police brutality the crux of the issue or racism?
Is it BLM or CLM? (criminals lives matter).Yeah, this is the UK issue I think. There are not enough cops of colour shown on the newsreels whenever something controversial happens.
Fully plays on the cops - bad white men theme.
It's been a while since I've been in London, but when working there every day, I did notice what a high percentage of cops I would see that were woman. Yet, you rarely see them in the news reels.
-
@mariner4life said in Black Lives Matter:
but, in the eyes of the law, surely there will be an appeal.
The judge has pretty much said that there are strong grounds for a mistrial after Democrat politicians called for violent protest if the verdict wasn't guilty.
-
@kirwan said in Black Lives Matter:
It’s actually worth discussing. Did he do this because he was black? Or did he do this because he was bad police officer, and did the same to whites/asians/everyone else?
This nails it for me.
Which is more important - a decent police force or a racially-sensitive police force?
-
@majorrage said in Black Lives Matter:
@siam said in Black Lives Matter:
So justice is served, and Minneapolis can be riot free, right?
Something which I found interesting (which you may as well) is that apparently Minneapolis has had rioting issues in about 100 sq metres of the city. All the news I've been watching continuously shows Minneapolis in a complete state of unrest.
However, when you scratch the surface, it seems that it's only a tiny part of the city. Same as Portland.
It's still rioting of course, but I guess like when it happens in London, it's relatively easy to avoid.
It seems cruel when reduced to scale like that. But we all do that for many complex problems and distortions of well founded principles. I know I do often. Except for covid😉, that's not allowed.
These riots are a gross dereliction of duty though and are symptoms of far more ominous machinations. A half interested government could cease these riots in a fortnight. Easily fixable, but there's no will. Don't forget that Portland had 100 nights in a row in that tiny little area, (adjectives I wouldn’t use in front of a resident or business owner). In the same vein, there've been Autonomous zones and destruction of innocent's property and even murders throughout all these activist movements.
Brett and Heather Weinstein give first hand accounts of living in portland every week. There's a bit more to it than bad luck for a tiny outlined square on a map.
I'm not sure that reducing the severity of these crimes into small areas is much of an answer, unless one is arguing that the US is awash with riots - which no one is.
Slippery slope reducing or downplaying obvious debilitating crimes that basically everyone is disgusted at and that are eminently fixable, no matter the scale.
Reminds me of the "working class" grooming girls. The scale doesn't reflect the severity, and some behaviours cannot ever be tolerated despite their relative scarcity.
-
@paekakboyz said in Black Lives Matter:
and I fully agree that destruction of private property as part of a riot or protest is scummy as fuck.
Especially, and moronically, when it is aimed at BAME owned property and BAME owned & operated businesses.
'Let's steal as much stuff as we can and burn this shit down'
People lose livelihoods and business' / jobs, leads to unemployment, and the cycle spirals lower and lower.
But it's the white 'Man' keeping us down.
Well played you fucktards.
-
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo I guess my thinking on that is that from day 1, it's been about a white police officer killing a black man. What's changed?
What's changed? Nothing in the media. My point is that is I truly hope jurors and judges look past colour to the actions of the accused.
-
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo I guess my thinking on that is that from day 1, it's been about a white police officer killing a black man. What's changed?
What's changed? Nothing in the media. My point is that is I truly hope jurors and judges look past colour to the actions of the accused.
Do you honestly believe they didn't?
Do you think the verdict is wrong?
-
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo I guess my thinking on that is that from day 1, it's been about a white police officer killing a black man. What's changed?
What's changed? Nothing in the media. My point is that is I truly hope jurors and judges look past colour to the actions of the accused.
Oh for a world where we pay attention to people based on their deeds and living conditions, not how they came out of a womb. 🙂
-
@mariner4life said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo I guess my thinking on that is that from day 1, it's been about a white police officer killing a black man. What's changed?
What's changed? Nothing in the media. My point is that is I truly hope jurors and judges look past colour to the actions of the accused.
Do you honestly believe they didn't?
Do you think the verdict is wrong?
I think the verdict is right.
And I'd like to think that I'd reach the same position if Floyd had been white
-
@siam said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo I guess my thinking on that is that from day 1, it's been about a white police officer killing a black man. What's changed?
What's changed? Nothing in the media. My point is that is I truly hope jurors and judges look past colour to the actions of the accused.
Oh for a world where we pay attention to people based on their deeds and living conditions, not how they came out of a womb. 🙂
Indeed
-
@mariner4life said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
@bones said in Black Lives Matter:
@voodoo I guess my thinking on that is that from day 1, it's been about a white police officer killing a black man. What's changed?
What's changed? Nothing in the media. My point is that is I truly hope jurors and judges look past colour to the actions of the accused.
Do you honestly believe they didn't?
Do you think the verdict is wrong?
I've not seen / read a single thing about the trial, but it's much better for the world (in the short term) that he was found guilty.
I hate writing & thinking that.
-
@snowy said in Black Lives Matter:
@siam said in Black Lives Matter:
So justice is served,
Rightly or wrongly, that is the way the court saw it.
This.
I expect that the process isn't finished though
-
@siam said in Black Lives Matter:
@majorrage said in Black Lives Matter:
@siam said in Black Lives Matter:
So justice is served, and Minneapolis can be riot free, right?
Something which I found interesting (which you may as well) is that apparently Minneapolis has had rioting issues in about 100 sq metres of the city. All the news I've been watching continuously shows Minneapolis in a complete state of unrest.
However, when you scratch the surface, it seems that it's only a tiny part of the city. Same as Portland.
It's still rioting of course, but I guess like when it happens in London, it's relatively easy to avoid.
It seems cruel when reduced to scale like that. But we all do that for many complex problems and distortions of well founded principles. I know I do often. Except for covid😉, that's not allowed.
These riots are a gross dereliction of duty though and are symptoms of far more ominous machinations. A half interested government could cease these riots in a fortnight. Easily fixable, but there's no will. Don't forget that Portland had 100 nights in a row in that tiny little area, (adjectives I wouldn’t use in front of a resident or business owner). In the same vein, there've been Autonomous zones and destruction of innocent's property and even murders throughout all these activist movements.
Brett and Heather Weinstein give first hand accounts of living in portland every week. There's a bit more to it than bad luck for a tiny outlined square on a map.
I'm not sure that reducing the severity of these crimes into small areas is much of an answer, unless one is arguing that the US is awash with riots - which no one is.
Slippery slope reducing or downplaying obvious debilitating crimes that basically everyone is disgusted at and that are eminently fixable, no matter the scale.
Reminds me of the "working class" grooming girls. The scale doesn't reflect the severity, and some behaviours cannot ever be tolerated despite their relative scarcity.
Portland seems to be pretty fucked uo
-
@mikethesnow said in Black Lives Matter:
@paekakboyz said in Black Lives Matter:
and I fully agree that destruction of private property as part of a riot or protest is scummy as fuck.
Especially, and moronically, when it is aimed at BAME owned property and BAME owned & operated businesses.
'Let's steal as much stuff as we can and burn this shit down'
People lose livelihoods and business' / jobs, leads to unemployment, and the cycle spirals lower and lower.
But it's the white 'Man' keeping us down.
Well played you fucktards.
True, although I would change "Especially and moronically" to ironically.
There is no difference in specialness or moron-ish of looting depending on the born characteristics of the owners.
-
@voodoo said in Black Lives Matter:
I certainly agree the media has gone to town on the racial angle. As have many of the protestors.
The jury was exposed to that subtext from the start. If you watch any of the jury selection a lot of the questions were explicitly about race; what are your feelings about BLM, what are your feelings about Blue Lives Matter etc etc.