Itâs not a justification, itâs a measure of how many interactions there are between cops and different races. In an ideal world nobody would ever call 911. Nobody should be judged by their skin color or ethnicity, and itâs 100% wrong when it happens. Donât forget though that itâs cops who have to deal directly with that minority of violent criminals, be they blacks, Hispanics or whites, and a fair number of cops donât come home either. There are a few lads on this site who celebrate that. My position is very clear, I have a lot more empathy for the victims of violent crime than I have for violent criminals, itâs a good moral code to follow.
You have to ask yourself the question why cities in the US havenât dealt better with the issues of violent crime and police brutality that are going on for many decades. Who do you think the cops report to? Who should be addressing issues of training, racial profiling, weeding out bad cops, etc? When politicians say defund the police, donât you see the hypocrisy given they already fund and manage the police?
You donât have to go back to the treatment of Irish in the UK, you have a much better example on your doorstep. Travellers in Ireland get similar treatment to blacks in the US, look at the % of travellers in your prisons and the attitude of a lot of Irish people towards travellers. Thatâs in your own country, so a lot more relevant than Irish people in the UK, a different country.
A welcome statement today from the Biden White House on Cuba, Jen Psaki responding to a question on the recent protests: âCommunism is a failed ideology and has failed the Cuban people. They deserve freedomâ.
Contrast with the statement today from Black Lives Matter who unsurprisingly side with the authoritarian regime. Blaming the US for the situation in Cuba the statement read âThis cruel and inhumane policy, instituted with the explicit intention of destabilizing the country and undermining Cubanâs right to choose their own governmentâ.
What the actual fuck? There hasnât been an election in Cuba since 1959, how the fuck are Cubans supposed to select their own government? What BLM mean of course is the government that we superior intellects decide for you. Itâs the same logic you see on this forum from the likes of Sid and the madman from the village.
Quite the contrast, and puts leftist progressives on a sticky wicket. The US government has sided with democracy and freedom, BLM have sided with authoritarian communism. Who will the squad side with? Making things a little more complex for the confused is the fact those being beaten off the streets and imprisoned in Cuba are black, and those doing the beating and imprisoning are white Hispanics.
We eagerly await the reaction of AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush and of course Irelandâs Paul Murphy. What do you stand for exactly, democracy or totalitarianism?
Donât pay much attention to it all but has the BLM protest now morphed into an actual political party of sorts? Taking a vocal stance on intl political affairs is some sight off what I saw them as when first came across the group.
Thereâs certainly a vacuum in US politics with 2 party system archaic and unrepresentative of the spectrum of US society. But, like posters in here, would have thought a rebrand would be needed if BLM movement going that route.
No, theyâve been exposed for what they are, a fraudulent racist organization that espouse Marxism. They will be marginalized like the Black Panthers before them. They collected over $100 million in corporate donations last year, black victims of violence havenât seen a penny of it. One of the founders got to buy five houses though and now lives in a white only gated community in LA. They are still popular within the black community but support has been declining since last summer in all other demographics.
I think a third party is inevitable and welcome, there has never been a left wing party in the US and it would certainly add some balance to debate.
Or infiltrated by terrified white-led agencies who just cannot imagine why these black folk donât think America is just the gosh darned greatest most free and not at all the most policed and incarceration riddled country in the so called developed world.
Member when California rushed through some of the fastest gun control laws in that stateâs history because the Panthers publicly expressed their 2nd amendment rights back in the 70âs? The great communicator was governor at the time iirc.
Iâm being flippant with the above but do you really think a left party would have a chance over there? The fear of communism or anything remotely socialist seems more pervasive now with vast swathes of the place than it did back in the bad old days.
An out and proud left party would require leaders with severely masochistic/hopeful tendencies but thatâs just my reading of things from over here.
Seosamh O Codaltaâs entire raison detre was stopping that cunt trump. Heâll go down in history for that alone.
Whoâll go up against trump next time? Doubt theyâll find anyone with Joeâs broad appeal and inoffensiveness across the board.
Sleepy Joe put systemic racism front and centre on his campaign trail. America has 99 problems, but systemic racism ainât one of them! He proposed banning assault weapons, but has left enough firepower in Afghanistan to start the third world war.
Anyone but Trump-ers like Sam Harris are eating their words. This would be funny, if it wasnât so serious. We will no doubt be feeling the effects of Obamaâs war and Bidenâs fucked up ending of it across Europe for many, many years to come.
