Racism in Southern America..

[General Dryness]

20 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I'd suggest that getting tooled up to go and oppose an anti-racist demo could also be considered a sign of racism.

If the anti racist demo is peaceful.

 

If it's looting stores and burning down buildings, not so much.

[Strontium]

I always wondered how looting and burning aids the cause of anti-racism.

[General Dryness]

10 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

I always wondered how looting and burning aids the cause of anti-racism.

Man can feel proud when he wears his flash new kicks while watching his nice new TV.

[TheHowieLama]

1973

 

 

[CapeRed]

5 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I'd suggest that getting tooled up to go and oppose an anti-racist demo could also be considered a sign of racism.

Id suggest you are right but that wasnt the case. His family live there and he was asked to go and help. Would it have been ok if he had gone without protection and been attacked and killed? Why do a large majority of these peacefull protests become an orgy of looting and violence, how is destroying somebody's property or business a sign thst you are against racism?

[Creator Supreme]

11 hours ago, Anubis said:

They look like solid citizens. Looking at the mugshot on the left I can’t help but think that somewhere a garden is missing it’s evil gnome.

 

 

 

The bloke on the right is John Torode! Good, gets the smug fucker off our screens for a while.

[skend04]

21 minutes ago, CapeRed said:

Id suggest you are right but that wasnt the case. His family live there and he was asked to go and help. Would it have been ok if he had gone without protection and been attacked and killed? Why do a large majority of these peacefull protests become an orgy of looting and violence, how is destroying somebody's property or business a sign thst you are against racism?

https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/

 

The highlighted bit is bollocks. In fact a large majority are/were peaceful and obviously news unworthy.

[Bjornebye]

47 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

The bloke on the right is John Torode! Good, gets the smug fucker off our screens for a while.

Some syrup that 

[Rico1304]

 

[CapeRed]

1 hour ago, skend04 said:

https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/

 

The highlighted bit is bollocks. In fact a large majority are/were peaceful and obviously news unworthy.

Using ACLED data, results will be biased towards attributes associated with urban areas due to the imprecision in ACLED's geoprecision coding.

Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatality data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED states to use the most conservative estimate available.

Even if that report is factual 7 or 8 percent turned violent That is still a lot of violence and destruction.

[skend04]

4 minutes ago, CapeRed said:

Using ACLED data, results will be biased towards attributes associated with urban areas due to the imprecision in ACLED's geoprecision coding.

Most of the data collected by ACLED is gathered based on publicly available, secondary reports. It may therefore underestimate the volume of events. Fatality data particularly is vulnerable to bias and inaccurate reporting, and ACLED states to use the most conservative estimate available.

Even if that report is factual 7 or 8 percent turned violent That is still a lot of violence and destruction.

So is 7/8% a large majority?

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Rico1304 said:

 

So Levis reminded their employees that it's ok not to be ok and if they need any help mentally that the company are there to offer support. Good on them.

 

Meanwhile Wrangler sent complimentary bullets out to all their employees am I right? 

[CapeRed]

30 minutes ago, skend04 said:

So is 7/8% a large majority?

At a guess I would say it is if you lost a business or family member or now you have to find additional money to shop elsewhere for food because your local was razed to the ground. Are you saying its ok because according to those stats , which are disputed and would probably be disputed if the numbers were reversed, say only 7 to 8 percent resulted in violence?

[skend04]

42 minutes ago, CapeRed said:

At a guess I would say it is if you lost a business or family member or now you have to find additional money to shop elsewhere for food because your local was razed to the ground. Are you saying its ok because according to those stats , which are disputed and would probably be disputed if the numbers were reversed, say only 7 to 8 percent resulted in violence?

So it's not a large majority then. 

[CapeRed]

15 minutes ago, skend04 said:

So it's not a large majority then. 

Ah..do me a favour

[AngryOfTuebrook]

8 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

I always wondered how looting and burning aids the cause of anti-racism.

I always wonder how teenagers with assault rifles help to make a situation peaceful.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

8 hours ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

I always wondered how looting and burning aids the cause of anti-racism.

There is a lo-o-o-ong history of how riots have, in the longer term, helped to break down structural racism.

 

Don't just wonder; read.

[Rico1304]

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

So Levis reminded their employees that it's ok not to be ok and if they need any help mentally that the company are there to offer support. Good on them.

 

Meanwhile Wrangler sent complimentary bullets out to all their employees am I right? 

Did you read the poster? 

[Rico1304]

1 hour ago, CapeRed said:

At a guess I would say it is if you lost a business or family member or now you have to find additional money to shop elsewhere for food because your local was razed to the ground. Are you saying its ok because according to those stats , which are disputed and would probably be disputed if the numbers were reversed, say only 7 to 8 percent resulted in violence?

I’m sure I read an article about how it takes years, if ever, for a place to recover from a riot.  Especially in black areas where affluent white people bus in then fuck off.  

[General Dryness]

3 hours ago, skend04 said:

https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/

 

The highlighted bit is bollocks. In fact a large majority are/were peaceful and obviously news unworthy.

Not a majority, but still 220 violent lootfests.

 

That's a lot of TVs.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Plus ça change 

 

 

 

 

[Strontium]

2 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I always wonder how teenagers with assault rifles help to make a situation peaceful.

 

Wait until you hear what UN Peacekeepers are armed with, it'll blow your mind.

[Bjornebye]

34 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Wait until you hear what UN Peacekeepers are armed with, it'll blow your mind.

It's wise to carry some form of defence when delivering food to people being shot at and bombed out of their homes. 

[CapeRed]

2 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Plus ça change 

 

 

 

 

That quote is from a time when black people in the US had almost no legal rights and in some places there were considered less than human. They have those rights now and they have the power to be heard without destroying .

MLK also said he wanted to see people judged by the content of their character and not the colour of their skin. Something a lot of folk today are not doing.

[Scooby Dudek]