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by: sillystring Active Indicator LED Icon 12 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Aug 30, '15 2:47pm  
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CompassionateRebel Active Indicator LED Icon 6
~ 8 years ago   Aug 31, '15 1:16pm  

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Right wing victimology mode in full display. Never mind the reasons the Black Lives Matter movement came to exist, never mind the horrendous tragedies inflicted by judge, jury, executioner cops. Is the reaction of a few extremist exercising their right to free speech that conveniently becomes the central issue. Casting aside logical thinking and facts, ideologues choose to pay attention to the incoherent noises of a few because it neatly fits their biases, strokes the fears and needs very little mindfulness. To join in the righteous call to end extra judicial killings of fellow citizens and to put an end of financing local governments via fines and penalties on minorities communities, requires an effort to see past the obvious and familiar. It requires empathy and compassion, and it requires the abandonment of fear.
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 31, '15 2:15pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 31, '15 2:17pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 31, '15 3:05pm  
sillystring writes:
They were on Facebook, too, saying the same sweet things, but I guess their page was deleted.
This movement has nothing to do with the "right wing."

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The right-wing comment was meant for the publication (first link) where you found the article about the protesters. However, thanks for validating the main points my post.
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 31, '15 4:06pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 31, '15 5:57pm  
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:15am  
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Here's what matters, rebel, more blacks kill other blacks versus cops killing blacks. Why don't they approach that problem instead of making it an anti white issue.
 
There are tons of good upstanding black people in this country. They should be standing against BLM.
 
Obama and Holder have created a lot of these issues!

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We'll hold our outrage until the number of blacks kills by cops approximates the number of blacks murder by blacks.
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 5:26pm  
So the blacks who were killed were doing something illegal. Now I'm not saying it's right to get shot in the back by a cop, but when you break the law you do take a chance of getting hurt.
In Ferguson, there were conflicting accounts from bystanders so it could be that the boy who was the size of a ma was charging the cop.
 
So far the cops that have be EXECUTED, were doing nothing but carrying on daily life.
 
As it has been said THIS HAS TO STOP.
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 10:32pm  
All Silly did is cite an article and comment how un-American the subject of it was. Mr Compassion then proceeds to tear in to Republicans in his commentary on it. dude, can't you emerge from your indoctrination at least occasionally to contrive a half sane comment on anything? You go on and on with punch lines and talking points to the point where nothing at all you say is valid or worth the gobs of time it takes to read it. I surmise you're under 30 years old, and without much life wisdom, only crammed in your head dribbling talk. Have an original thought for once and you'll be better read.
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 2, '15 6:25am  
Makk9 writes:
All Silly did is cite an article and comment how un-American the subject of it was. Mr Compassion then proceeds to tear in to Republicans in his commentary on it. dude, can't you emerge from your indoctrination at least occasionally to contrive a half sane comment on anything? You go on and on with punch lines and talking points to the point where nothing at all you say is valid or worth the gobs of time it takes to read it. I surmise you're under 30 years old, and without much life wisdom, only crammed in your head dribbling talk. Have an original thought for once and you'll be better read.
 
I agree
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 2, '15 8:39am  
I have been at one event were a similar young black advocacy group appeared and, putting their ostensible purpose to the side, I found them repellent.
 
They were presumptuous, discourteous, loud and irrational, and implied repeatedly that the local police (who had arranged the community meeting for the purpose of community outreach) were guilty of crimes against blacks BECAUSE they were police ("just like" the Ferguson, Mo. police) [and in the absolute absence of evidence of any such behavior.]) Then, after about a fifteen-minute performance where their leader called out elliptical slogans (in between imputations that the local cops were guilty of murder and systematic brutalization of blacks) and his compatriots chanted responses, they all got up and left with the meeting not half over, without troubling to stay and attend on the comments of the rest of the assembly (as WE had on THEIRS.)
 
Demonstrations such as this are nothing more than stereotypical egomania in action. All they say is, "Hey! Look at me!", and their effect is to put off people who are sympathetic to blacks' feelings of oppression by the police and to turn others dead against them. If someone in the black community doesn't urge these boneheads to introspection, they may cost the Democrats the presidential election. The last thing that the Democrats need is large numbers of blacks behaving in a way that reinforces prejudicial stereotypes of black stupidity and rudeness.
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 2, '15 9:16am  
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 2, '15 9:21am  
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 2, '15 9:53am  
CecilQ writes:
I have been at one event were a similar young black advocacy group appeared and, putting their ostensible purpose to the side, I found them repellent.
 
They were presumptuous, discourteous, loud and irrational, and implied repeatedly that the local police (who had arranged the community meeting for the purpose of community outreach) were guilty of crimes against blacks BECAUSE they were police ("just like" the Ferguson, Mo. police) [and in the absolute absence of evidence of any such behavior.]) Then, after about a fifteen-minute performance where their leader called out elliptical slogans (in between imputations that the local cops were guilty of murder and systematic brutalization of blacks) and his compatriots chanted responses, they all got up and left with the meeting not half over, without troubling to stay and attend on the comments of the rest of the assembly (as WE had on THEIRS.)
 
Demonstrations such as this are nothing more than stereotypical egomania in action. All they say is, "Hey! Look at me!", and their effect is to put off people who are sympathetic to blacks' feelings of oppression by the police and to turn others dead against them. If someone in the black community doesn't urge these boneheads to introspection, they may cost the Democrats the presidential election. The last thing that the Democrats need is large numbers of blacks behaving in a way that reinforces prejudicial stereotypes of black stupidity and rudeness.

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Last time anyone checked, stupidity and rudeness are not confined to any ethnic group. Ascribing a particular negative behavior to a minority group would be an error at best, racially bias at worst. All activist movements are by nature disruptive, hence the name activist. How conveniently we forget the white, old middle class "decent" folks members of the tea party movement up in arms disrupting every other congressional meeting to demand their country back. I shudder to think how would these honorable people have reacted if their children and neighbors had been executed without due process. I'm sure the niceties would have gone out the proverbial window. So, barring any double standards, the disruptions and protest of political, civil gatherings are as old as our democracy. Why condone one particular group and condemn the other?
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 2, '15 10:35am  
CompassionateRebel writes:
 
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I have been at one event were a similar young black advocacy group appeared and, putting their ostensible purpose to the side, I found them repellent.
 
They were presumptuous, discourteous, loud and irrational, and implied repeatedly that the local police (who had arranged the community meeting for the purpose of community outreach) were guilty of crimes against blacks BECAUSE they were police ("just like" the Ferguson, Mo. police) [and in the absolute absence of evidence of any such behavior.]) Then, after about a fifteen-minute performance where their leader called out elliptical slogans (in between imputations that the local cops were guilty of murder and systematic brutalization of blacks) and his compatriots chanted responses, they all got up and left with the meeting not half over, without troubling to stay and attend on the comments of the rest of the assembly (as WE had on THEIRS.)
 
Demonstrations such as this are nothing more than stereotypical egomania in action. All they say is, "Hey! Look at me!", and their effect is to put off people who are sympathetic to blacks' feelings of oppression by the police and to turn others dead against them. If someone in the black community doesn't urge these boneheads to introspection, they may cost the Democrats the presidential election. The last thing that the Democrats need is large numbers of blacks behaving in a way that reinforces prejudicial stereotypes of black stupidity and rudeness.
 
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Last time anyone checked, stupidity and rudeness are not confined to any ethnic group. Ascribing a particular negative behavior to a minority group would be an error at best, racially bias at worst. All activist movements are by nature disruptive, hence the name activist. How conveniently we forget the white, old middle class "decent" folks members of the tea party movement up in arms disrupting every other congressional meeting to demand their country back. I shudder to think how would these honorable people have reacted if their children and neighbors had been executed without due process. I'm sure the niceties would have gone out the proverbial window. So, barring any double standards, the disruptions and protest of political, civil gatherings are as old as our democracy. Why condone one particular group and condemn the other?
 
It's a question of realpolitik. If this behavior continues, the result will be the election of people who will NOT be sympathetic to the interests of the demonstrators. Acting out may make the demonstrators feel good, but their behavior is pragmatically antithetical to their cause.
 
As an object lesson, look at the California. Until the Free Speech demonstrations of the '60s, the University of California master planned envisioned a college education for every graduating high school senior at a modest cost. After the demonstrations, and the consequential election of Reagan as governor, the plan was scrapped and other anti-populist policies (e.g Prop. 13 that limited the property tax) destroyed the state school system entirely. Now California, which once graduated students at the top of the national percentiles, ranks 49th of 50 states in achievement tests scores of graduating high school seniors.
 
One might speculate what the state would be like today if the Free Speech demonstrators had just ****.
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