(03-31-2017, 04:44 PM)Kinser79 (to Bob Butler) Wrote: There's one problem with your theory. They don't organize peaceful protests. Were it merely that they would merely be annoying. BLM mostly instigates riots and anti-police crime. As for the police themselves statistics indicate that they are prejudiced against shooting blacks in proportion to the rate at which that race commits crimes--particularly violent crime. Remember Blacks are 13% of the population but commit half the murders and robberies.
"Black lives matter"... or we all have a problem. That includes me, someone who could hardly be "whiter". A nasty society in which to live for any large population -- and that includes poor whites, too -- makes life more precarious for us all. Note that I did not say that violent criminals who happen to be black need a "get away from the consequences" card because some of their ancestors were slaves. Pull a gun on a cop and die, especially when the cops have body armor and almost invariably get the second shot with a more lethal aim. One reason for criminal homicides going down is that the cops now survive felonious assaults and those who commit those felonious assaults never make it to jail or the courtroom, let alone the execution chamber.
By the way -- I have a suggestion for solving many of the problems of any oppressed people in America -- more rigorous, effective schooling. If it works for middle-class people of every ethnic group in America, then why can't it work for...
Yes, parents must turn off the Idiot Screen and the video games.
Quote:I would also indicate again that the main cause of unnatural death amongst blacks is in fact being killed by other non-police black people. If one wants to save black lives, black people should start by not killing each other. In the words of RuPaul "If you don't love yourself how the hell you gonna love anyone else?". Black on black crime is real and a serious issue but since it doesn't fit the hate the white man narrative BLM isn't interested.
What if I told you that white people use more drugs, use worse drugs, and get away with them longer? OK, whatever one's ethnicity, poverty makes life far harder and personal decisions more difficult. I recall seeing a study in which much murder was over money. Middle-class people burned for $20 simply abandon their losses if they can't get them corrected. For them, $20 is easy to come by. Poor people were more likely to act violently to being burned. Tellingly, middle-class people asked to draw dollar bills drew them at the right size. Poorer people tended to draw them bigger than they really are.
Quote: If all you do is watch the Tee-Vee "news" then you're not well informed. Seriously you've tried to claim that rioters are peacefully protesting. This is not a lone nut activity--violence is actively encouraged in their circles. I should know as I was initially drawn to them myself, for pretty obvious reasons.
Back when people respected TV news, even Walter Cronkite suggested that to get more complete news, read a newspaper. Yes, the thirty-minute evening news program is limited in value: first it is only about twenty minutes of news (the rest of the time is advertising) that has limited time for any one news story. PBS News Hour has no such problem; it has no advertising, and it can treat any news item with a few sentences or thirty minutes if necessary. Twelve minutes on a nightly news show? That might stretch time between commercial breaks. CNN, MSNBC, and FoX News Channel can do that, at least potentially... CNN is often fluff, and MSNBC and FoX News have their biases.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.