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Oh hell no. Not ***** cool at all. And they laugh about it?! Something about violence against the elderly really boils my blood. Please catch the perp. I hope he spends a long time in jail.

Oh my, I've found another poster with excellent logic and reasoning skills. It takes talent to be this level of reductionist. Since you are so good at knowing other people's intent, what were the cops intending to do when they slashed and smashed random, empty, parked cars?

Fwiw, the organizer who asked the mayor this question said "we don't want any police in our city" or something to that effect just a couple seconds before he answered.

Oh really? Since you know so much about my intentions, tell me, what do I intend to have for dinner tonight? Pointing out a scene where a woman respectfully asks "what's going to happen at 8, sir?" only to hear the response "what's gonna happen is we're gonna start beating the ***** out of you" isn't worthy of note? (that's the final clip in the montage, last 15 seconds if you want to quickly verify it). @Deranged Rhino Correct, there's a lot at play here. Emotions are high on all sides. That means mistakes are bound to happen. That doesn't mean we should excuse the mistakes entirely though. For the most part the officers around are doing a good job I think. The protesting in my area has all been peaceful, and cops have joined in on several occasions. Still, any cops (and protesters) not following protocol should be reprimanded accordingly. I think that's only fair. I stand corrected ma'am. As I said, I appreciate you clarifying the matter for me. It still doesn't explain the tire slashings and window smashings, etc. And when I asked about these things, I wasn't trying to be facetious. Just because I disagree with many posters here politically doesn't mean there isn't value to be had at times. Like just now.

It's in the video I linked. There are several examples of tire slashings and at least 2 examples of private property destruction (smashing windows of empty, parked cars and smashing what appeared to be a door). The video of the police (I think NYPD) destroying their own cruiser wasn't in that montage, but if I come across it again I'll post it right away. Cops were even spray painting graffiti on the cruiser to make it look like the act of a rioter. It was nuts. You're right, I just found this article about it. It was Boston, not NY. Thank you. https://newsmeter.in/fact-check-did-boston-police-damage-their-own-car-to-blame-on-george-floyd-protesters/

You when mean acting on the 1st Amendment right to peaceably protest and assemble in accordance with any laws, curfews, and regulations regarding them still gets you beaten unnecessarily? If that is considered a "Stupid Game" then I suppose so. There are people out there breaking the law, but there are also protesters and press who are obliging everything they are being told to do and are still receiving heavy handed acts of violence.

Why are cops slashing tires of parked cars, destroying private property, and even destroying their own cruisers in some cases?

Lol. You need to pull your head out of your HamSandwich.

Thank you (and anyone who donates) for providing us with this forum.

You see? No matter what I say, your mind is already made up. Anything I bring up will be refuted, contested, admonished, or ignored. It's not worth the time and effort to just slam my head into a brick wall.

If I had any faith at all that those people would change their tune, I'd gladly provide that. But I have no faith at all that it would change anything, so it's just not worth the time and effort. Why? Because it's very simple. The people who have the capacity for that kind of self-reflection are already in the position of not needing to have these things explained to them like they are 5 years old in order to change their minds. OTOH, the people who don't have that capacity cannot change their minds regardless of any number of facts presented to them by definition. Typically, the only thing that can change those folks' minds is experiencing a personal tragedy. And that's not something I can provide over a message board. I can't undo years of brainwashing over a Saturday afternoon.

I've been a part of several but this board is by and large one of the most batshit crazy alt-right boards I've been on. They may as well merge PPP with 4chan.

That's why it's funny when some of these guys talk about "critical thinking" and the like. They are so confident in their "knowledge" that they end up being the ones who are incapable of seeing the whole picture. This black-and-white reductionist logic (such as this example of "same name = same platform... despite 160 years of time elapsing") is central to the conservative mind. If an argument doesn't follow a simple, basic algorithm of "if this, then that", they get their panties in a bunch and break down. Then again, I doubt many Americans from all walks of life know the specifics of the various party systems in the history of the US. We are currently in the Sixth Party System. "The Sixth Party System is characterized by an electoral shift from the electoral coalitions of the Fifth Party System during the New Deal: the Republican Party became the dominant party in the South, rural areas, and suburbs; while the Democratic Party increasingly started to assemble a coalition of African-Americans, Latinos and white urban progressives. A critical factor was the major transformation of the political system in the Reagan Era of the 1980s and beyond." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System

Just a lot of political activism stuff. He doesn't seem to be a fan of Trump... or Biden... or Obama (at least he mentions how much he hates the ACA).

That's all he ever does. Posts random headlines from the least reputable websites out there. He may as well sign every post of his with "BNN" for B-Man News Network.

Keyword: original. As in original peoples. Who are the original people from South Africa? And who eventually colonized them? Lotta big brains on this forum.

I like the breakdown. I think we can beat the Steelers for 10-6, and maybe even sweep the Patriots for a 6-0 division record and an 11-5 division title. The other game predictions I tend to agree with.

I'm not ignoring it but okay? Even if that's the only example you can think of, I appreciate your contribution nonetheless. Human trafficking needs to end ASAP. The rest of your post is standard weirdo DR.

?‍♂️ Where did I say something has never happened in history? I believe I asked "how many examples" of racism against whites solely for being white can you think of, noting how there really aren't that many. I even offered an example of my own to get the conversation going since I'm genuinely interested in how many examples there are, so how on Earth could I have said it never happened in history when I gave an example? Lol. I appreciate you offering the example of human trafficking, as it's one I didn't think of. But so far, there is that example and the one I provided earlier about the Japanese (with the caveat that they were racist to everyone non-Japanese). That's not really a large body of examples imo.

I enjoyed our back-and-forth chatting until your posts devolved into crap like this. At least the other posters are putting in some honest effort into their comments. This is a pity post so you can stop looking like a parrot. It's bizarre, ngl.

I'm not really sure what gene pools have to do with the history of racism. Genetics is a relatively recent discovery, and interestingly enough one of its first applications was to support established racism. White – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html If an Arab-, Iranian-, or Turkish-American was filling out a US Census form, how would they answer the race question? (hint: the answer is somewhere in this post)

I'm aware of that slave trade, the tensions between Europe and the Ottoman Empire beginning in the 15th century, the Barbary corsairs, the shores of Tripoli, etc. Arabs, Persians, and Turks are white btw.

My only question would be this: how many times can you think of where whites were raped, murdered, and/or traded as a fungible asset specifically because they were white? Off the top of my head, I can think of white POWs under Japanese occupation during WWII. Although the Japanese held racist sentiments for everyone who wasn't Japanese, including other East Asians who share their phenotype. Slavery has a long history across many cultures. Whites and non-whites have engaged in it. The Romans and Spartans (two white, Western examples) enslaved whomever they conquered regardless of skin color, at least to my knowledge. The Ancient Egyptians (white, non-Western) also did the same for thousands of years prior. But the institutionalized "otherness" based on skin color is something that's fairly unique to whites. Here you have institutions like religion (The White Man's Burden), science (eugenics), and law (see Motorin's post above) using skin color to systemically differentiate people beginning in the Early Modern period. It created a different breed of slavery from the historic colorblind slavery that humanity was "used" to.

Of course not. Any type of reparations would have to predominantly come from the wealthiest Americans. You know, the standard, progressive taxation that we're used to. You bring up a great point though. Class struggles are also a huge problem in this country. Poor whites and poor blacks can come together to fight for change for all colors when they recognize that a poor, unemployed black man with just $100 is the same as a poor, unemployed white woman with just $100. And that's what we are seeing in many of these protests and riots.