Politics Black Lives Matter

[Sweet Jesus]

The US has gone collectively insane

The entire country?

 

[sdfc]

The entire country?

Yeah because I meant every man, woman and child.

The left is attacking courthouses and police stations, the right attacked the capitol. The centre is thinking wtf.

 

[medusala]

You are a pustulent irrelevance enswathed in presumptive pomposity.

#hemingwayfail

 

[Sweet Jesus]

Yeah because I meant every man, woman and child.

The left is attacking courthouses and police stations, the right attacked the capitol. The centre is thinking wtf.

Who is "the left" in this sentence?

 

[sdfc]

Who is "the left" in this sentence?

So you think the right is deep cover in those BLM protests waiting to attack the police and courts in order to frame the left.

Do you want me to be more specific and say far left or did you just put a tinfoil hat on?

 

[Ghost Patrol]

So you think the right is deep cover in those BLM protests waiting to attack the police and courts in order to frame the left.

Do you want me to be more specific and say far left or did you just put a tinfoil hat on?

Race is not a left/right issue.

It's an issue for the far right, who seem to think everyone else is left.

 

[sdfc]

Race is not a left/right issue.

It's an issue for the far right, who seem to think everyone else is left.

Yeah, every one to the right of you is far right.

 

[Chief]

Look at this nonsense tweeteed out by an educator in the US. Apparently "characteristics of white supremacy" include perfectionism, individualism, a sense of urgency and objectivity. Setting aside whether this is accurate or not, what are they suggesting as preferable alternatives to this "white supremacy"? No, we need a "culture of love" instead?




Isn't this actually deeply condescending to non-whites? Like, "you don't need to worry about perfectionism or a sense of urgency - those are just trappings of white supremacy". Surely those attitudes go hand in hand with hard work and achievement? Now they're perjoratives that indicate white supremacy? This is nuts.

Chief can you explain this to me? If this is the new Anti-Racism agenda, I don't get it at all.

I don’t know what it is or what the context is, and I don’t have some unique perspective on anti-racism anyway.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Yeah, every one to the right of you is far right.

 

[Eagle Wrath]

Religion and pedos were around far before left and right was a thing

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Religion and pedos were around far before left and right was a thing

Sure, why not.

Before Jesus came along, people hopped around on one leg.

 

[Chief]

You are a pustulent irrelevance enswathed in presumptive pomposity.

Yeah but what would we do without him?

 

[medusala]

Yeah but what would we do without him?

Would have more time on his hands for Dungeons and Dragons in the basement rather than looking up an online thesaurus for the "big words".

The sort of 5 watt bulb that would tear down a statue of William Wilberforce at a BLM riot.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

So you think the right is deep cover in those BLM protests waiting to attack the police and courts in order to frame the left.

No. Who said that?

Do you want me to be more specific and say far left or did you just put a tinfoil hat on?

The guy doing a smash and grab on an electronics store to steal a TV - is he doing that because he's part of "the left" or becomes he's an opportunistic criminal?

BLM is a distinct cause/movement with specific concerns about racial justice. And the looting that spun out of it is another step removed. To bundle all that up and say "look at what the left is doing", like it's a monolith with folks all on the same page, seems overly simplistic. These aren't people in elected office.

 

[Sweet Jesus]

I don’t know what it is or what the context is, and I don’t have some unique perspective on anti-racism anyway.

What do you mean by "the context"?

It's a tweet from the Superintendent of Schools in Ann Arbor, Michigan, recapping a day of "equity learning"? What other context is there? It's a tweet. It's not a reply to anything. There's no context. That's how tweets work.

You might not have a unique perspective, but would you agree that it appears nuts?

 

[Chief]

Had a good D&D sesh tonight. Unfortunately no basements in Australia - building code doesn’t make it cheap enough

 

[sdfc]

No. Who said that?

The guy doing a smash and grab on an electronics store to steal a TV - is he doing that because he's part of "the left" or becomes he's an opportunistic criminal?

BLM is a distinct cause/movement with specific concerns about racial justice. And the looting that spun out of it is another step removed from that politically. To bundle all that up and say this is "the left", like it's a monolith that are all on the same page, seems overly simplistic. These aren't people in elected office.

I use "the left" because if I sat here and described every position on the left and right, I don't think I'd ever finish.

Rubbish like this certainly isn't imposed from the right.

Lincoln, Washington, off with their names: San Francisco makes a mockery of history

History is always subject to debate. You need both facts and interpretation to decide whether to scrub the names Washington and Lincoln from schools.

www.usatoday.com

Lincoln for god sake. And you object when I say that country is going insane.

 

[FRUMPY]

When's the next protest in relation to BLM in Australian capital cities, or do we wait till something happens again in America?

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[Chief]

When's the next protest in relation to BLM in Australian capital cities, or do we wait till something happens again in America?

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Or something happens in the Australian context? Or are you one of those morons that believes that there is no Australian context and it’s all “American stuff taken up by Australians”?

 

[FRUMPY]

Or something happens in the Australian context? Or are you one of those morons that believes that there is no Australian context and it’s all “American stuff taken up by Australians”?

No, but why wait until something happens elsewhere to protest etc. It loses any impact here.

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[Chief]

No, but why wait until something happens elsewhere to protest etc. It loses any impact here.

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You think people only protest when something happens in the US? Where did you get that idea? You didn’t see it on TV so it didn’t happen?

 

[FRUMPY]

You think people only protest when something happens in the US? Where did you get that idea? You didn’t see it on TV so it didn’t happen?

Well the ones that don't make the media/TV and don't make an impact. And piggybacking off something in America has no impact.

Make the protest based on issues here and make it big enough to get media coverage and it'll have much more impact.

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[Chief]

Well the ones that don't make the media/TV and don't make an impact. And piggybacking off something in America has no impact.

Make the protest based on issues here and make it big enough to get media coverage and it'll have much more impact.

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News doesn’t care unless there is violence that they can use to portray black people as dangerous.

Now, what stops people in Australia leveraging the publicity given to US events? Why shouldn’t they use that spotlight to remind people about Dungay and others?

The story of David Dungay and an Indigenous death in custody

Guardian Australia has followed the case of the 26-year-old Dunghutti man since his death in Long Bay jail in 2015. Here’s what has happened so far

www.theguardian.com

 

[FRUMPY]

News doesn’t care unless there is violence that they can use to portray black people as dangerous.

Now, what stops people in Australia leveraging the publicity given to US events? Why shouldn’t they use that spotlight to remind people about Dungay and others?

The story of David Dungay and an Indigenous death in custody

Guardian Australia has followed the case of the 26-year-old Dunghutti man since his death in Long Bay jail in 2015. Here’s what has happened so far

www.theguardian.com

Because it has no impact.....as shown by the BLM protests in Australia ......nothing has changed

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[Chief]

Because it has no impact.....as shown by the BLM protests in Australia ......nothing has changed

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And who’s fault might that be?