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Published: 2014-08-20 22:22:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 12110; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 17
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Fellow white people, please, let's stop pretending to be shocked at what's going on in Ferguson and face facts already: black Americans are scared of the police, and they have every goddamn right to be, because shooting unarmed black people seems to rank only slightly below donuts and Starship Troopers cosplay on the list of most popular police hobbies.Related content
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Comics about racism in America often do, unfortunately.
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Honestly with folks out here calling the cops on black people for just breathing these days, this piece is just so true, hilarious, and depressing.Β
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nice.Β
wrong to stereotype blacks, ok to stereotype cops.
surface level activism.
fashionable to be a rebel eh?
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Cops shoot a lot more whites than blacks. Also, far more young black men are shot by other young black men than by cops.
The mainstream media doesn't report this fairly though. They focus out of all proportion on cop shootings of black men, in order to create a fictional narrative that cops disproportionately shoot black men. They do this because they want to keep America racially divided. Keep the working class whites and blacks mad at eachother, and they'll never notice the elites sitting there laughing at them. Divide and conquer, it's the oldest trick in the book.
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You mean an unarmed black mean who had previously robbed a store, tried to take the officer's gun and assaulted aforementioned officer?
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The officer only claimed that the black guy tried to take his gun and assault him.
We don't have proof of the officer's claim, even now.
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You don't need proof he's telling the truth, you need proof he's lying.Β PresumptionΒ of innocence. Not to mention, the man in question did assault a convenience store clerk and resisted arrest, so the policeman's claim is hardly a mental stretch.Β
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Although, how do we know that the resisting arrest and the assault on the store clerk happened either?
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The clerk reported it and I believe the cameras and some witnesses saw it, which was the whole reason the officer was pursuing the man in question.Β
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How do we know that those recordings were not faked? Or if the witnesses or the clerk themselves weren't lying?
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Well, for one thing, it was recorded by camera. For another, the clerk had no reason to lie and was injured by the assault. Third, it renders the whole argument moot, asΒ it would in that case entirely not the officer's fault.
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The camera could have been faked.
People lie about things all the time, sometimes for no reason.
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Now you're just grasping at straws.
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Still, we don't know the whole story.
And people lie and fake video evidence all the time, in some cases for no reason. So who knows?
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Yes and maybe Kubrick really did record the Moon Landing.
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We can't really trust the media these days...
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The Moon Landing was a half a century ago. That isn't "these days".
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I mean as in "mid-20th century-21st century".
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The fact of the matter is their is no proof the Moon Landing is fake but plenty that it really happened.Β
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How the heck would we know?
For al we know, they may have hired an incredibly good director.
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The what about the vapor trails? What about the millions of people who saw it lifting off over Florida? It would have been harder to fake it than to pull off! Hell, it would take greater technology than we've got now to fake it.
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We can fake just about anything, especially in the 21st century.
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Yes and maybe Kubrick really did record the Moon Landing.
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Yep, that's some cruel comedy indeed. Luckily I'm not one of those to don't go crazy for right wing politics for my book.
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The Police would only arrest the Punk attempting the robbery.
How come every time a Black Human being is shot, its automatic "RACISM!"
But when a White Human being is shot, all of a sudden its all "Heroic Officers shoot Offender!".
Ya'll some racist mother fuckers.
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You'll be surprised.....
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Police racially profile PoC and treat them unfairly. Malicious shootings by police against PoC are happening constantly. The for-profit prisons are overflowing with black inmates who form a socially acceptable slave class. Yet when even an ounce of anger and counter-violence is displayed by the PoC who are sick of decades of this treatment they are degraded by ignorant whites like you.
As white people we must recognize this oppression and work toward social justice and redress. We must face our disgusting history of slavery, imperialism, genocide and oppression. We must accept that our modern society is built from the blood and sweat of those we oppressed and continue to exploit. We must live not for ourselves but only as an agent for atonement. This means living to practice activism, charity or any action for the benefit of PoC, at all times.
I personally am choosing not to have white children, for obvious reasons, or mixed children as that would be a form of genetic imperialism. I'm adopting an orphan of color instead and I urge all white people to do the same.
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Btw 345rv5, the Communistic Socialist people come from the far left side of American politics, learn your history before you put up a come back that isn't true. Us Republicans are called Republicans because, oh I don't know, we support the Republic that the United States was built on. People call the America a Democracy just because we have a Democratic party, it's false...
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This is a bunch of bull crap, the African American community needs to drop their ignorance and respect the police instead of going out and gang banging for a quick buck from the pot dealer on the corner. If they would actually think of how to make their lives easier, work for what they can earn, and see that this is not the 1900s anymore, maybe the police would not look down on a community that is 70% crime.
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Well given i'm black, this shit is nothing new. Hell between this and the Bush presidency fucking everything up and Obama not doing much better, i pretty had it with this current "Democracy" and i personally think that at this point, i think America is fucked if this isn't the moment that gets people to wake up and take a rifle and start cracking heads. How many more lives have to be lost beforeΒ people wake up to see the Corporate Police state is only out for their own bias, racist, sexist power structure?
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And shooting dogs. They love shooting dogs.
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It isn't shocking that commies and anarchists start riots and spread lies, what is shocking is people believe your lies.
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You're a moron. If we were starting riots, it would be revolutions and there would be dead cops, notΒ looters stealing a bunch of fucking TV's. As someone who thinks Communism is too Far to the Right, i find your attempts to demonize the far left as distasteful.
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Okay so it was communists and anarchists that started the violence right? Β Take Ferguson for example here, the people 100% responsible for the violence was communists and anarchists, or anarcho-communists right? Β Not the looters coming from around the area to opportunistically steal the products of capitalism? Β Or the reactionary police who feel that public order at a vigil is needed? Β Or hell, let's say a couple of angry people, tired of the way their community has been treated lashes out at a cop in full armor with a rock. Β Does that give the police permission to fire rubber bullets into the crowd? Β To use tear gas and drive towards them with an armored vehicle? Β What gives the police the right to say who's allowed to be angry? Β What about the fact that they were doing nothing to stop the looters and opportunist criminals in the rest of the city of 20,000 people instead concentrating on keeping this singular group of people from protesting the actions of the officer that the department has thus far supported?
I believe you are a troll, a troll whose presence is unwelcome but useful in determining how to deal with people like you. Β So let's see what you have to say, I'll bet it's something along the lines of "You're a liar it's obviously the work of the communists who happen to exist in the middle of a state well known for having amish people and conservative governments (up until roughly the 70's any Democratic governments in or immediately close to the South were of the blue dog variety.)
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The majority of the arrests were people from outside of Ferguson and there were reports of communists being there to start riots.Β
I'm saying that "shooting unarmed black people seems to rank only slightly below donuts and Starship Troopers cosplay on the list of most popular police hobbies." is a lie being spread by commies and anarchists.
Someone spreading lies deserves to be trolled.
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Yeah because police brutality never happens and it's not like the police disporitionaly attacks blacks.
Also if we led riots,Β there wouldn't be looting, there would beΒ at least a dozen dead cops,including the assholes who killed an unarmed civlian
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There are also reports of extra-terrestrials living among us, the French having no word for "entrepreneur," war coming to an end in the Middle East, Starbucks Coffee being high quality, and pyramid schemes being a viable source of income. By no means do reports make something true.
Your denial of racial tensions is impressive. How long have you lived in the suburbs?
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I'm not denying racial tension.
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Denying that police officers (who are predominantly white) shoot unarmed black people quite often is denying a huge part of the racial tension in the United States. Frankly, I'm more interested in these reports of riotous communists that, given the amount of information you gave us, could have been made by Rush Limbaugh. Your affinity for calling everyone of a different politico-economic philosophy a liar is far less interesting to me than the assumption that they're busy plotting destruction like Pinky and the God Damned Brain.
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Denying that police officers (who are predominantly white) shoot unarmed black people quite often is denying a huge part of the racial tension.Β This is bullshit
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Copy/paste and a three word response is not a valid rebuttal. Why is that bullshit?
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