Nice reply L2. Yes the ant did infer anarchy, on both fronts.Yeah the police are the enemy.
Chalk up another vote for anarchy.
-
IMPORTANT // Please look after your loved ones, yourself and be kind to others. If you are feeling that the world is too hard to handle there is always help - I implore you not to hesitate in contacting one of these wonderful organisations Lifeline and Beyond Blue ... and I'm sure reaching out to our PRE community we will find a way to help. T.
U.S Presidential Election
- Thread starter Chiang Mai Tiger
- Start date
It is currently but gradually attitudes are hardening & cultures dividing. Australia isn't as united as it was.
You excused the rioting while implying cops in general are worse than the criminals. It's not a valid perspective.
Show me where I excused rioting.
Stating that police have killed citizens implied nothing about rioters or anything else - and I explicitly said that police who commit crimes need to be tried.
Any "implication" of anarchy is in your own head.
Ant, narrow minded right wingers always have a lot of trouble distinguishing explanation from excusing.
What they don't understand is that seeking to explain why things are the way they are is not the same as excusing certain actions. It is a bit like the deliberate ignorance on climate change.
The reality is that black Americans have tried for decades to get some semblance of equal treatment in the USA. They tried non-violence in the civil rights movement, yet still are killed by police at a much higher rate than whites (there are 4 times as many whites in the USA as blacks so raw numbers are just an excuse). They got the civil rights act but still face everyday discrimination, just look at what happened to that black CNN reporter and the comparison with his white colleague. They got the voting rights act, yet states have undermined their voting rights very deliberately ever since. They protest non-violently and get ignored or vilified for some manufactured slight.
Just what response do you expect?
Martin Luther King was right: A riot is the language of the unheard.
I would go further - the legal system is supposed to be a neutral umpire, but a neutral umpire in a system which is already rigged will just perpetuate the advantage of those who are the beneficiaries of the rigging. To be neutral in a biased system is to perpetuate the bias.
DS
What they don't understand is that seeking to explain why things are the way they are is not the same as excusing certain actions. It is a bit like the deliberate ignorance on climate change.
The reality is that black Americans have tried for decades to get some semblance of equal treatment in the USA. They tried non-violence in the civil rights movement, yet still are killed by police at a much higher rate than whites (there are 4 times as many whites in the USA as blacks so raw numbers are just an excuse). They got the civil rights act but still face everyday discrimination, just look at what happened to that black CNN reporter and the comparison with his white colleague. They got the voting rights act, yet states have undermined their voting rights very deliberately ever since. They protest non-violently and get ignored or vilified for some manufactured slight.
Just what response do you expect?
Martin Luther King was right: A riot is the language of the unheard.
I would go further - the legal system is supposed to be a neutral umpire, but a neutral umpire in a system which is already rigged will just perpetuate the advantage of those who are the beneficiaries of the rigging. To be neutral in a biased system is to perpetuate the bias.
DS
You can't explain it. These people are behaving like animals.
You steal and burn my *smile* and I'll urge the coppers to shoot you.
A criminal is a criminal, no matter the colour of its skin.
Don't play Mr. Naiveté. It's unbecoming.
You implicitly excused lawlessness by scoffing at the concept of legal trial, on the grounds that police in general are murderers. It was a bad post.
I agree that even criminals have the right not to die in the act of being arrested. Generally speaking.
Was it established whether George was in fact passing counterfeit notes? A serious although non-violent offence, and not one he deserved to die over. Just asking whether he put himself in a position for something bad to happen.
Did Dusty stab a woman with chopsticks? Did VicPol have a right to put the knee to his neck outside Mr Miyagi’s?
They have a right to restrain him if he resists arrest. I don't know whether a knee on the neck is what police are trained to do. I suspect not.
He was clearly warning that looters will be shot. That is standard practice the world over.
