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BINGO again!! Double Bingo!
BLACKOUT BINGO!!!1!
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This game is too easy.
There was a blackout the other night. I was so scared.
He claimed he was selling candy bars to raise money for his school marching band, but I made sure the cops choke slammed him just in case.
I always hated selling band candy, even though nobody ever choked and/or slammed me even once when I was doing it.
More seriously, Iāve mistrusted law enforcement for a long time (the institutional racism really seems undeniable), but I never really grokked how much the average schmo contributes to the dynamic of escalating violence until we started seeing all these videos of white folks calling the cops on brown people for obviously bullshit reasons.
What are you trying to say?
Sorry, no criticism intended. Just presenting a perspective I found interesting [1].
Apologies for any offence.
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[1] i.e. the perception of this issue from within the Black community, and what Disco suggests about the pervasiveness of pro-cop attitudes in White culture.
Not exactly. Mostly none of us see it up close so have a hard time imagining it properly.
Thanks for clarifying. Iāll admit I felt a little bit attacked. Not at first, but as I was working out a reply, I realized āoh wait, I know this person, heās that guy who posted all those interesting photos of his work sites where insects tried to murder him; but heās also the guy whoās got like an eight-hundred-thousand-post thread about politics and current events that Iāve never read and I wonder if I just got savagely burned.ā
I feel like this site is one of the few places online where I expect to be given the benefit of the doubt w/rt to my comments, so when I thought for a moment that maybe I wasnāt, I decided Iād try to live up to my own expectations and just ask. And even then, I couldnāt help but do it in a passive-aggressive manner; my apologies for that. I wasnāt necessarily offended, but I was kind of hedging my bets, if that makes sense.
As to the substance of your post, itās not entirely unfamiliar. I get where the guyās coming from, or at least I think I do as far as Iām able to. And Iām usually pretty good at understanding that if the behavior described is not the sort in which Iād engage, then theyāre probably not talking about me when they say āwhite peopleā. People are angry and frustrated and hurt, and rightfully so. Let it out, I say. Just rage that shit right out of your system, and if I catch a little blowback in the process, thatās OK because itās probably not going to really harm me in the long run. I get how infuriating it can be when the tide starts to turn (even if just a little bit) and people finally start noticing whatās been so obvious and so painful to you all along.
At the same time, this kind of sentiment, casually expressed as some sort of fundamental truth, still bothers me:
I hate being lumped in with these people.
The irony of a white guy being upset at being stereotyped is not lost on me, and yetā¦ I hate it.
I hate being lumped in with the family members I no longer speak to or associate with because of their so-called āpoliticalā views. I hate being lumped in with the redneck and frat-boy assholes I didnāt want to have anything to do with growing up. I hate being lumped in with the tech-bro assholes currently doing their utmost to immanentize the eschaton. And I hate, and I mean I really loathe, being lumped in with those boot-licking authoritarian pricks who think cops can do no wrong.
And at the same time, I know itās not about me.
If thereās one thing Iāve taken away from some of the feminist narratives over the last couple years, itās that I should shut up and listen. And Iām fine with that. (Itās why I lurk, but rarely (never?) post on the Not Feminism 101 thread). Iām self-aware enough to question my own behavior and perceptions, but not so āwokeā (if thatās the right word) that Iām confident of any particular outcome.
And, frankly, sometimes I outright despair at the notion that thereās any correct path of action. I hear āshut up and listenā at the same time as I hear āif youāre not actively supporting us youāre against usā at the same time as I hear āmany so-called allies are actually predators in disguiseā. If I donāt say something, Iām a bad person for not speaking up against injustice, but if I do say something Iām either a clueless white person who thinks itās all about me, or a deceptive white person whoās just virtue-signalling to exploit some advantage.
I legitimately donāt know what Iām supposed to do here.
And I feel silly for even posting any of this, since my suspicion is that social media is largely an outlet for feeling like weāre doing something meaningful without having to go to the trouble and expense of actually doing something. Anything.
I find these words to be sensible regarding this sort of subject:
My sentiments exactly. Thanks.
The only way to win is for (everyone) not to play!
This was very thoughtfully written, and I can imagine was difficult because you had to weigh every word.
Thanks for doing it!
Unless weāre visibly āother,ā weāre Schrodingerās fascist. weāre a face-down piece that might be an enemy. people canāt know weāre not.
We finally have a verdict.
If youāre not familiar with this case, you really should read it.
White privilege beats cop privilege?
At the margin.
(Mohamed) Noor is a former Somalian refugee whose family moved to the US and settled in Minneapolis.
This should be enough to know why prosecution succeeded.