07-09-2016, 04:34 AM
I respect your feelings, Six. However, I don't share them.
I have no concerns that people at Mock are too dense to discuss relevant and related topical issues unless every discussion point fits precisely with the thread title connotation.
There are a shitload of good cops in this country, and there is a significant but much smaller number of piece-of-shit cops who use a badge to hurt the people they're sworn to serve (and thus hurt good cops by association).
Assuming all controversial killing of blacks by police officers is due to racism is ignorant. Likewise, pretending there isn't a contingency of police officers who are unfit and/or power hungry abusers (some of whom harbor racial biases) is equally ignorant, in my view.
The black race did not declare war or kill the five Dallas PD officers. A sole gunman did. That black military-trained gunman was immediately condemned by the (black and non-black) protesters. He hurt their cause and he killed people without justification, which is exactly what the protesters oppose.
The Dallas protesters are no more responsible for the black American sniper's actions than are the white people here at Mock and elsewhere who consistently paint all black Americans as a lazy scourge for the actions of Dylann Roof. The Dallas protesters are no more responsible for the black sniper's actions than are the millions of peaceful American Muslim for the atrocities committed by Syed Farook and Omar Pateen. Etc.
If we get to a point in this country where peaceful protest and freedom of speech is discouraged and blamed for the violent actions of unhinged individuals who attach themselves to a cause, I think we'll have even bigger problems than those being protested and spoken against now.
I have no concerns that people at Mock are too dense to discuss relevant and related topical issues unless every discussion point fits precisely with the thread title connotation.
There are a shitload of good cops in this country, and there is a significant but much smaller number of piece-of-shit cops who use a badge to hurt the people they're sworn to serve (and thus hurt good cops by association).
Assuming all controversial killing of blacks by police officers is due to racism is ignorant. Likewise, pretending there isn't a contingency of police officers who are unfit and/or power hungry abusers (some of whom harbor racial biases) is equally ignorant, in my view.
The black race did not declare war or kill the five Dallas PD officers. A sole gunman did. That black military-trained gunman was immediately condemned by the (black and non-black) protesters. He hurt their cause and he killed people without justification, which is exactly what the protesters oppose.
The Dallas protesters are no more responsible for the black American sniper's actions than are the white people here at Mock and elsewhere who consistently paint all black Americans as a lazy scourge for the actions of Dylann Roof. The Dallas protesters are no more responsible for the black sniper's actions than are the millions of peaceful American Muslim for the atrocities committed by Syed Farook and Omar Pateen. Etc.
If we get to a point in this country where peaceful protest and freedom of speech is discouraged and blamed for the violent actions of unhinged individuals who attach themselves to a cause, I think we'll have even bigger problems than those being protested and spoken against now.