Crime Widespread riots after Death of George Floyd V.5, Let's Hope The Murder, Arson & Looting Is Over

[Hadron90]

the phrase "black lives matter" discredits trump? hmmmmmmmm

What is that word you guys love to use here? Decontextualize? That's it. You are decontextualizing.

 

[Hard To Tell]

Is racism over yet?

Not quite

 

[Hadron90]

Not quite

Damn. They could commission a George Floyd statue to put in the plaza. That will do the trick.

 

[ElKarlo]

What's funny is that DC is full chock full of the type of corruption that gets people killed.

 

[whaleshark]

I noticed early as soon as the media started to get roughed up by police, they started focusing on that angle all the time and not the riots, assaults, and deaths from looters/protestors

 

[Hadron90]

I'll give her some credit. That is some pretty good bants.

Trump should sign an E.O. moving the capital to Trump Mar-a-lago.

 

[MMAGA]

yes, the police are definitely much more gentle with those who never question authority.

There’s a difference between respectfully questioning and going full-Karen!

This balance is something most younger folk have yet to master. And, with the enabling mentality the MSM and many politicians on The Left are perpetually promoting, it doesn’t seem like a skill they’ll soon get a grasp on.

 

[Armbars]

Had the radio on earlier for a few hours and it was nonstop bullshit. All they did was talk about police brutality and how bad the police are.

It's as if the police are out looting, destroying people's property and rioting.

Fucking world has gone to shit, people are too scared to be labelled something so just fall in line.

 

[Seso]

I'll give her some credit. That is some pretty good bants.

Trump should sign an E.O. moving the capital to Trump Mar-a-lago.

Leftists are going to feel disrespected because cars are driving on it <45>

 

[The Diplomat]

I'll give her some credit. That is some pretty good bants.

Trump should sign an E.O. moving the capital to Trump Mar-a-lago.

Gotta fight fire with fire, I guess. Live by the trolling, die by the trolling.

I got a chuckle out of it tbh.

 

[superpunch]

Not quite

I can tell right off the bat without even looking them up that some of those stats are made up. There's no way white on white murders are 10.0 per 100,000.
edit: That's per 1,000,000. In which case there's no way that black on black is 53.9 per 1,000,000 -- or 5.39 per 100,000. That sounds way too low.

 

[The Diplomat]

I don't think the Mayor of Washington DC changing the name of the street next to the White House "Black Lives Matter Plaza" should be merged with the riots thread. @Oku etc This is actual news and completely separate.

 

[shockaholic12]

What is that word you guys love to use here? Decontextualize? That's it. You are decontextualizing.

No, that's what you did when you tried to connect a street mural to dictatorship.

 

[Hadron90]

No, that's what you did when you tried to connect a street mural to dictatorship.

Nope. Wrong again. That's not what decontextualizing means. I looked it up.

 

[Handsome Bruce]

The Left’s Normalization Of Collective Guilt Is Ripping America Apart

All decent Americans stand against racism. But if we’re to live as brothers, we must stop indicting all those who share a skin tone for the sins of others.

...why are so many people acting as if it were their knee, not Derek Chauvin’s, that pressed down on George Floyd? The answer lies in the concerted effort of radical leftists and their unwitting accomplices to normalize the collectivization of guilt.

Leftist influencers have convinced millions of Americans that the only way they will be allowed in polite society, the only way they will be perceived as decent is if they accept culpability for Floyd’s death and the “systemically racist society” they apparently helped create.

The radical left demands Caucasians apologize for their “privilege.” They must read, internalize, and publicly praise books on approved reading lists in order to come to grips with their “unconscious” and deep-seated racism. They must shop at black-owned businesses on sites like WeBuyBlack.com, theblackwallet.com, and shoppeblack.us as further proof of their solidarity.

On June 2, Instagram was flooded with people posting pictures of black boxes in support of Black Lives Matter activists. Quickly, however, an ever-growing list of “suggestions” muddled the “rules” of who should post and in what manner was pleasing to the Blackout Tuesday folks. Actress and feminist activist Emma Watson was attacked on Twitter for both posting the boxes and for taking so long. You can’t win.

The next time a life is lost to an abuse of police power, it must be denounced once again, and the perpetrators subjected to our civilized courts of trial, deliberation, and justice. But we need to start finally viewing each other as individuals responsible for our actions, and our actions alone.

As individual men and women, we bear the guilt and reap the penalties for our own sins and crimes. As individual men and women, we earn praise for righteous behavior.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/05/how-lefts-normalization-collective-guilt-ripping-america-apart/

 

[Officer Rick]

Seems like he has had a change of heart

 

[panamaican]

I can tell right off the bat without even looking them up that some of those stats are made up. There's no way white on white murders are 10.0 per 100,000.
edit: That's per 1,000,000. In which case there's no way that black on black is 53.9 per 1,000,000 -- or 5.39 per 100,000. That sounds way too low.

Why? The murder rate in this nation isn't anywhere near as large as people claim. There were 17,000 homicides (murder and manslaughter) in 2019, out of a nation of 350 million.

As people regularly joked about Covid-19, we lose more people to the flu. ~80,000 died of the flu in 2018. Once you strip away the sensationalism, there isn't a massive wave of death sweeping this nation in the form of people killing other people. It's an exaggerated sense brought on by the news medias need to fill every night's news with a death, the "If it bleeds, it leads." mantra. People should really start rising above that blatant manipulation for views.

 

[ElKarlo]

The Left’s Normalization Of Collective Guilt Is Ripping America Apart

All decent Americans stand against racism. But if we’re to live as brothers, we must stop indicting all those who share a skin tone for the sins of others.

...why are so many people acting as if it were their knee, not Derek Chauvin’s, that pressed down on George Floyd? The answer lies in the concerted effort of radical leftists and their unwitting accomplices to normalize the collectivization of guilt.

Leftist influencers have convinced millions of Americans that the only way they will be allowed in polite society, the only way they will be perceived as decent is if they accept culpability for Floyd’s death and the “systemically racist society” they apparently helped create.

The radical left demands Caucasians apologize for their “privilege.” They must read, internalize, and publicly praise books on approved reading lists in order to come to grips with their “unconscious” and deep-seated racism. They must shop at black-owned businesses on sites like WeBuyBlack.com, theblackwallet.com, and shoppeblack.us as further proof of their solidarity.

On June 2, Instagram was flooded with people posting pictures of black boxes in support of Black Lives Matter activists. Quickly, however, an ever-growing list of “suggestions” muddled the “rules” of who should post and in what manner was pleasing to the Blackout Tuesday folks. Actress and feminist activist Emma Watson was attacked on Twitter for both posting the boxes and for taking so long. You can’t win.

The next time a life is lost to an abuse of police power, it must be denounced once again, and the perpetrators subjected to our civilized courts of trial, deliberation, and justice. But we need to start finally viewing each other as individuals responsible for our actions, and our actions alone.

As individual men and women, we bear the guilt and reap the penalties for our own sins and crimes. As individual men and women, we earn praise for righteous behavior.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/05/how-lefts-normalization-collective-guilt-ripping-america-apart/

This. The left is tearing things apart at an alarming rate. It's awful and I fear it's unstoppable. The west is lost and there is no fixing this

 

[The Diplomat]

Best reply:

Drew just trying not to set the sack record this coming season..

 

[superpunch]

Why? The murder rate in this nation isn't anywhere near as large as people claim. There were 17,000 homicides (murder and manslaughter) in 2019, out of a nation of 350 million.

As people regularly joked about Covid-19, we lose more people to the flu. ~80,000 died of the flu in 2018. Once you strip away the sensationalism, there isn't a massive wave of death sweeping this nation in the form of people killing other people. It's an exaggerated sense brought on by the news medias need to fill every night's news with a death, the "If it bleeds, it leads." mantra. People should really start rising above that blatant manipulation for views.

Because the US murder rate is 5 per 100,000. African Americans make up 53% of that at 12% of the population. So divide by 2, and multiply 10. Quick math tells me it should be around 25 per 100,000 or 250 per million. Western Europe is like .8-2.0 per 100K depending on the country, or 8-20 per million, I think. That sounds right.

edit: I'm an idiot. It's per 100,000 of the whole population. Not per black person. I assumed that black on black meant blacks killed per 100,000 black people by black people. It's blacks killed per 100,000 of all people by black people.