Beat me to it…
When I saw the caption for the booking photo, I wondered if News of the Weird was still around and keeping tally.
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Right? it’s like Bizarro Elsewhere.
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Trauma from domestic violence backgrounds is a huge issue for cops. Many police officers get into it because they grew up in families where their fathers were abusing their mothers. As an older teen, they stepped in as a protector. Then this protective mentality became their MO; their job.
There is a very good teacher about emotional intelligence, Karla McClaren, who talks in her book about how police officers are empaths who often take on a lot of the trauma that they are surrounded by. They generally do not have very good emotional coping tools; they tend to use dark humor and shutting down to cope with the emotional connection that they feel toward the people they help. Domestic violence cases are really hard for cops to deal with effectively because of the emotional triggers there, and because it is rare for dv victims to go through a prosecution; so, there is very little sense of actually “saving” anyone in these cases.
This is why the suicide rate among police officers is sky high.
I think that the white nationalist aspect of it comes along with the trauma and sense of helplessness (even though they have the power that they thought would help them escape).
I personally think that bringing some real trauma healing to our police officers could be one of the most powerful things we could do for our country; however, it’ll probably be a cold day in hell when any of these departments actually acknowledge the emotional wounds and need for healing of their officers.
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It’s in Funny Times at least, but I think Chuck Shepherd retired from it.
Funny Times is a monthly newspaper of cartoons (political and otherwise), columns, essays, etc., all with a leftist bent.
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Did you not notice his skin color?
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I used to get that publication regularly I should pick it up more often.
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I feel like we need to have a Re-Klanification of America thread, because it’s still white supremacy, but manifests slightly differently:
You say ‘Get, get’ to a stray dog that’s on your porch,” she told WCBI. “That ‘Get, get’ got to me more than ‘You don’t belong here.’
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Richie Incognito. That is a name I have not heard in a long time.
Hopefully he ends up as a tackle dummy.
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That was my first thought, too.
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It’s a name I hoped to never hear again. I didn’t know his story got worse after his harassment of the black player, because I wasn’t sure how it could get much worse.
That would certainly suit him.
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Big surprise:
“I’m a conservative and a Republican supporter, and I thought it was pretty much common knowledge that I’d be a Trump supporter,” Incognito said. “But I sent the tweet out and, oh, I got crushed. Absolutely crushed. But I’ve got as thick a skin as they come, and I thought it was hilarious.”
Incognito admits part of his fascination with Trump is how much he relates to the politician’s gift for surviving in the presidential race despite his glaring lack of political correctness, a clear connection he feels with the candidate given his past.
“Trump’s all over the map and he’s boisterous, he’s everything he shouldn’t be, but it seems like he keeps going and going and going, and when he misspeaks, he gets even more attention and momentum,” Incognito says. “I don’t buy the whole package, and there are some things I don’t agree with him on. But as a whole, I’m a supporter and I believe in him.”
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Re outrage:
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They said the quiet part out loud, I guess it’s up to the courts to pretend they didn’t hear that:
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There are so many editorials like this, and I am inclined to be skeptical. I mean, it’s definitely a problem when people are hurt by inappropriate mass condemnation, and of course that’s something we should try to avoid for its own sake.
But how often does that happen, compared to cases where appropriate condemnation is forgotten, or the mass outrage is actually turned against the accuser? And how do we know it’s not a bad side-effect of a beneficial refusal to put up with bigots? Is there any indication it is actually something empowering them, or is it just noise on top of the fictitious grievances and paranoia being blared from the Fox-to-Breitbart pipeline? They always seem really short on actual discussion and evidence of that.
The thing is, people have been blaming racism and the like on those who dare call it out since at least the civil rights movement. Somehow more caution, more patience, and more silence are always the right response to white supremacy. If writers want me to believe that’s finally true now, I think it’s fair to ask more than an anecdote and some rhetoric.
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That man has no neck.
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He’s got a good head on his shoulders.
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Not really… apparently, it’s a racist head! 
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[Raises hand] it happened to me on Twitter.
The weird thing was I mostly agreed with this person, and still mostly do, but I didn’t like how she’d attacked another group of people to make her point… and said so.
Some people agreed with me.
Many, many more people accused me of being racist and misogynist, or of tone policing*. This got to scary levels, like “OMG I’m going to have to delete all my accounts and live like a luddite for the rest of my life” levels.
And then right-wingers started RTing my tweet as “proof” they were justified in their own attacks… which was when I deleted my tweet.
*The tweet I was reacting to was published in a professional capacity. As I explained to more than one person at the time, if the person had published it in a personal capacity, as far as I’m concerned she could have said whatever she liked. As the editor of a large news organisation, no. IMHO, professionally everyone gets tone policed. But apparently I’m wrong about that, which is what landed me in hot water.
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