I'm regretting 2020... 
Not what I meant at all
Was simply trying to state that the more crime = more incidents with the police. Perhaps there could be an explanation there.
I'm not blaming anything on race here at all!
Well I guess that concludes my "great contribution" to this thread, I knew I was going to regret it.
No offense was intended, but these protests are not about how African-American criminals shouldn't be punished. Every criminal should be punished, and nearly everyone agrees to that. If ten gingers commit a crime, ten gingers should be arrested.
But there is an endless pile of evidence that some demographics are facing the full force of illegal police brutality. We're talking about countless legal unarmed citizens being subjugated to authoritarian brutality; day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade.
This is an issue we should face now, it's as simple as that. Worth watching:
Source: https://youtu.be/zaD84DTGULo
More like still the first wave, slight impeded by half-hearted action.I'm going slightly off-topic here for a sec and discuss COVID19. While in most of the western world the first wave is long past us, cases are approximating zero and the countries are carefully open up, onebrave gallic villagewestern country defies this trend.
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That would have been a very boring movie as Mother quickly routed the Nostromo away from danger and a classic scifi movie and iconic female character would never have been born. I imagine Ms Adern would have a conflict about stifling the rise of Ripley. So much would change about that film if Weyland was a NZ company, the two mechanics would've been Kiwi, speaking Te Reo and not complaining about how they get less shares because they live in a fair society. A totally different movie.It makes me wonder about the future. My inner vision is of Dallas from Alien going to visit Mother, and having his questions answered in Jacinda's calm Kiwi voice.
WHO says the epidemic is getting worse around the world.I'm going slightly off-topic here for a sec and discuss COVID19. While in most of the western world the first wave is long past us, cases are approximating zero and the countries are carefully open up, onebrave gallic villagewestern country defies this trend.
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Is that because as a society China is incredibly undiverse, under the boot FAR more than the western world, and also racist....I read a Star Wars poster had John Boyega's character removed...but hey commies so they're ok and MUCH better than the West...rolls eyes.I forget where I saw it or who said it but in regards to China it was said they're not arguing with each other what pronoun to use to describe someone. They're getting ready to be the 21st century's global superpower and it just so happens America has a leader also working towards that aim.
And why are you going to show me videos of people doing their normal work? You say it as if being a good police officer is something exceptional, they take an oath to protect and serve, we pay them to do their job, not to earn merit. Call me what you want, it is true that I have never liked the attitude of many polices and authoritarian figures, but if you see some behavior of the police and the American judicial system normal, I think that the one with a problem is you.
Normalizing those behaviors or seeing them as "isolated cases" could demonstrate how unhealthy their society is. (Hundreds of American programs run through our TV that fill only with crimes and murders, that's a sick thing)
The fact that most are also racists is just one more addition. In Spain there is also racism and there are also bad policemen, but thanks to the fact that we can still use some instruments to combat that and if someone is killed, believe me there will be problems.
but in united states? Who says something to the world's greatest power? They do what they want, and the worst thing is that they try to set an example and sometimes Europe takes them as an example, but their system is rotten.
I still think angrily of the Kelly Thomas case, and since none of those people stepped into a jail, they were supported by lawyers, doctors, police chiefs, prosecutors ... how can you defend something like that? (In the video, if I'm not mistaken, you can almost see how they apply the taser even in their lower parts, 6 people looking and hitting, that brother, it is pure and harsh torture, and if you do not react to that, you are as sick as those people who did nothing)
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn-YYGQi2Eo
"if united states saw what united states is doing in the united states,
united states would invade united states to liberate united states from the tyranny of united states "
I said that "under the boot".....strange how I usually see Antifa protesters with chinese flags!! Cretins.No its because it has a totalitarian government that stifles all decent.
oh excellent social distancing there , slow claps, cretins.by the way, in Spain we have also shown solidarity with Floyd and the cause
Interesting read, I agree fully that some Police forces are corrupt (not just racist) and this sort of idea has seen success, It's looks like it's more about weeding out who really controls the Police in an area if they are corrupt. This benefits everyone.It has been done in the past in the USA:
"... In 2012, with crime rampant in Camden, New Jersey, the city disbanded its police department and replaced it with a new force that covered Camden County. Compton, California, took the same step in 2000, shifting its policing to Los Angeles County. "
source: https://apnews.com/be62ee3dee3094f2ecf8f841a198aadd
However if for years you only promote hatred, superiority , towards other races, ideologies ... repeating the same rubbish speech, you get what you have,and it's reaching its lowest point.
It is completely going over your head.
The topic of white privilege is a general term applied to a group. You are looking at a specific instance. They are not the same, because a grain of sand is not a desert.
Your inability to empathise with the problems faced by others is merely part of the problem. It is how racism works.
Whether or not you had a household appliance does not compare to life risk by sudden police action that people live with 24 hours a day. Please do not continue along this path, it is ludicrous..
I'm a nonwhite minority in a black majority country. And I have been arrested for that. Jailed for that.
You simply have no comprehension of the issue. Read some more. Think some more. Your personal suffering grants you the experience needed for empathy.
Communism is bad for all that as well it's not just the preserve of Fascism.
Was it racism though, during the WW1 Officers were drawn from the upper class in the UK and if they suffered shell shock and ran were hospitalised, the "grunts" were from the working class, if they ran they were shot.....more "white privilege" of course.One of the few good things about the Vietnam War was that it confronted the US military head on with the problem- and it was proactive. Training on racial relations was mandatory in Basic. Repeated again for me in OTS.
Communism is bad for all that as well it's not just the preserve of Fascism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kelly_ThomasThat it's almost impossible to imagine this situation playing out the same way if Floyd was white would certainly be in agreement with a long standing pattern of demonstrable systemic racism, and was obviously going to be viewed in such a context.
I recommend you Oliver Stone's "Untold History of America", it may open your eyes a little.
You can bet your sweet behind that the moment police is reduced to zero, other power factors in any society will fill the vacuum, and not the kind you would like to fill it.