You're rioting because YOU LOST FAIR AND SQUARE. Have you considered WORKING and then donating the money to charities instead of virtue-signaling online? No. Because one's easy and one's hard.
A kind of important part to democracy is letting people's outrage be heard, you make no sense lmfao. the founding fathers said it themselves loopspeare
I'm not an American, but weren't the founding fathers racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc., Memphis_Grizzlies? Why are you taking advice from them?
Besides, you already had a chance to let your outrage be heard: voting. Either way, get a job and actually help people. You're a virtue-signaler. Put your money where your mouth is.
Loopspeare, just because someone from the 1700s was not marching for a modern issue unknown to them at the time like trans rights does not mean that everything they say should be discounted. Nazis believed deplorable, disgusting things but if they say 2 plus 2 is 4 it doesn't mean their wrong just because their nazis :)
I agree with that, giovannimaxroma, but that doesn't mean that we should follow everything that the founding fathers said. My main point is that we need to be critical.
Yo the fucking stupidity in here is making me sick. All of you go to fucking school! Read!! God damnit I don't expect knowledge on tengaged but you all literally do not know what the fuck you're talking about.
memphis_grizzlies George Floyd was killed in a matter of him resisting arrest while high on illegal drugs, fact.
If he got in the car like they politely asked and guided him to do with zero problem, heād be alive, fact.
Do I think the officer should have been more aware of the pressure he was enforcing? Absolutely, and if charges come on him for it then thatās his own fault.
But there were plenty of opportunities where the officers all tried to NOT get to that point, they even offered to crack the damn window open, as he said āI canāt breatheā while standing next to the car with no pressure on him anywhere, because he was drugged up and had a warped sense of what was actually going on.
Was it racially charged? HELL no
Was it premeditated? HELL no
Was George Floyd a good person at any point? Again, no.
So why is he being idolized and positioned as a martyr? Why isnāt Tony Timpa, who died in almost the SAME way but isnāt brought up just because heās white?
Like of ALL the people and situations that are LEGITIMATE gripes and cases to draw awareness too, this is complete bullshit and proves that itās not about anything but control and power grabs. We can move on to Breonna Taylor if youād like but I would like this addressed first.
Memphis_Grizzlies, nowhere in the constitution/bill of rights are you given the right to loot, destroy private or federal property, or committed acts of violence against others including your opposition. MLK who was a constitutional scholar and racial equality advocate would agree that the constitution gives you the right to peaceably assemble, not to violate the rights of others (life, liberty, property, privacy).
I would argue that the riots for racial equality, the Boston Tea Party, and the Stonewall Inn riots have all been assigned way more significance than they deserve. I believe that change occurs much more often through slow cultural change and better representation of minorities in government, higher education, and the media.
Peaceful protests that show the common American that these people do not pose a threat to others makes people less prejudiced, while racists these days have plenty of ammunition to stoke their racist beliefs since they can refer to a video of African Americans burning a store down. If you really want racial equality, in my opinion you should stop asking black people to do exactly what the race-realists want them to do... be violent/not civil.
so we are supposed to let the racists believe what they want in silence then? maybe instead racists should show their true colors and be shamed for them. giovannimaxroma
Successful protests are found to have common characteristics; diversity, stamina, size, and nonviolence. Yes, it's frustrating that these things are happening. Yes, it's unacceptable with the way the world is working. But if you lash out you let them win. Like everyone else is saying, it's. What. They. Want. We need to use our platform and voting block to vote for the right candidates in local government that can start the transition to a better tomorrow.
And for the fucking idiot excusing the murder of an innocent black man, stick to hunger comps. That's where your brain is needed.
i kinda disagree tbh. a lot of times riots are a last resort but they have been successful ones. ideally they wouldnt be happening but they should be allowed to happen if people feel mistreated woah
memphis_grizzlies you have to understand not everyone is as good as you. People take advantage of the violence and throw themselves into it. It takes purpose & substance away from the movement and it's people. The instances you're using as examples are not aligned with what youre talking about in the blog. You're justified in feeling this way but there are better ways.
You must have missed my entire post about the point you brought up, feel free to respond.
And woah youāre also allowed to comment on any part of it that you think or feel is untrue, but if youād rather just insult me when Iāve been friendly and nice to you and weāve had plenty of convos, then I see
Memphis_Grizzlies, so I can say that I feel mistreated and legally come burn your house down? Come on man, just because you support a cause does not mean you have to blindly support the actions taken by every person in the movement. If pro-lifers were rioting in this violent manner, I would also hope that we can come together and say that rioting is wrong.
sam_hamwich honestly, you're right! I shouldn't have insulted you that was rude, I am sorry! I get very frustrated when I see long posts about it with the whole "fact" shit, comes off as condescending to me.
What you're saying ISNT WRONG, BUT YOURE MISSING THE POINT! Institutionalized racism is real, implicit bias is real, the school to prison pipeline is real, all of these things are small factors that make issues like this different from ones where someone is white. It's the fact that a person of color feels as though the police who are hired to protect them are instead out to get them. It's the bigger picture.
Again, sorry for lashing out. You are right and have been nothing but nice to me in the past. These issues are very important to me and it upsets me to see someone completely miss the point.
woah I get that, Iāve done that too before Iām sure.
Personally I donāt feel like there is institutionalized racism, or systemic racism. I definitely agree that there are certain aspects in our society that can be worked on, I just donāt see BLM as a whole as a good movement with good intentions. Evidenced by the choices in the biggest names. When the start of all this is based on a situation laced with ignored facts, facetious claims, and straight up lies, it doesnāt seem to be anything more than a power grab. Thereās just so many better choices for a face of a movement based on positivity to me, and I hate when people try to manipulate the facts into saying things that arenāt true, and then belittle others for standing behind the actual facts. Itās just backwards IMO
