HARMONIC'S PROFILE

author=CAVE_DOG_IS_BACK
how was he at all being racist towards whites. if you are saying he is racist you are also perhaps saying statistics are racist. and why is that all you seem to care about

That post quoted him, but it was directed at everyone who is pulling the white privilege card every 0.000005 seconds.

I care about it because I am offended by the concept of white privilege. We have the privilege not to be offended when people hate us and discriminate against us because of our race. To claim that, by birth, we have it easier and thus aren't allowed to organize, and don't deserve any breaks, is racist. I'm sorry, I cannot change my race.

If I were black, you wouldn't think twice. You'd be too scared to say anything. I would have immunity and any bigotry against me would be punished by a forum ban. But since I'm white, you have the freedom - no - the impetus to shit all over me.

So since I'm a human, who is a race, allow me to be offended by racism toward my race.

Anyone who thinks someone else doesn't deserve to be offended by bigotry specifically directed at them is a complete asshole.

author=DarklordKeinor
You seem to be correct on that observation, harmonic. Provided his interjection on these matters are intentional, what is the president's motive?

Eh, I think he just wanted to hear himself talk on the subject. Nothing deliberately sinister, but I think he should not be so cavalier with his words - which are arguably the most "heard" words of any human being on the planet.

I remember you posting that conspiracy theory video that the police were actually behind all the fires in Ferguson.

Good stuff.

A damning statistic indeed. (Side note, normally comparisons like this are innacurate at best, because of America's much larger population, larger ethnic and income diversity, but when it's this bad, fine, let's go with it.)

I hardly think it's because America's cops have all gathered together and decided it's fun killin' people. Our government (look at the politicians, not their enforcing arm) has created these conditions over generations. Urban blight and white flight are not the cops' fault.

I know, it's easy to hate on cops because they tend to give people speeding tickets and they're big and mean and tell you what to do. But they're trained to follow a set of rules, and defend themselves with lethal force if they feel threatened. And then they're expected to enforce, with physical violence, laws against the selling of cigs outside of the original package. Absurd. What are they, vulcans?

Under these circumstances, of course there's going to be a lot of mishaps, slipping through the cracks, stress-related outbursts. I have a feeling that some people are so naive that they believe everything would be shitting rainbows and smiles if the cops would just be nicer.

Police brutality is an issue yes. Yes there's corruption, yes the Eric Garner case was bullshit. And I've acknowledged this multiple times. I simply think it's a symptom, not a root cause.

author=Adon237
police wouldn't be facing public scrutiny if for the last couple of decades (probably longer) if they weren't just instruments higher classes use to deal with lower classes

This.

With all the obsession about racial or gender privilege, class privilege has flown under the radar. It is, by far, the most pervasive and real of the methods of privilege.