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originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: AlbanArthur
Is this not freedom of speech?
Yeah, the denial IS astounding. How can you not see such sensitivity as anything short of assinine? What happened to our thick skinned culture? What happened to sticks and stones? When did our culture begin to allow petty things like that to debilitate us? Just because it bothers you as an individual doesn't change how dumb it is to be so sensitive. Oh well.
originally posted by: Jahari
originally posted by: filthyphilanthropist
boo hoo. Maybe I should fall in line with all the whinery and get offended at being likened to things I dislike. I better not see any stinking pig masks around me, and you better not taunt me with a whip. Am I sensitive to pig masks because I'm fat or a man? Who knows. Reason really doesn't matter anymore does it? Oh, and if anyone ever honks anything at me. Ohhhhh buddy.
originally posted by: veracity
a reply to: suvorov
Dressing up as a gorilla or sambo face is an insult to afro-americans
Yes you would be offended from a pig mask because from you own mouth your "fat", thats why you said it. You acknowledged it to be a form of insult towards "fat" people. Tbh you have the right to be mad. Just because as an individual it doesnt bother you doesnt change anything. The state of denial in some of these post are astounding!
Fat people weren't, no. But Men were. My ancestors were slaves even in America. My ancestors were forcefully taken as prisoners of war and sent to the Americas before the Africans. There were still Irish slaves in the colonies after the inception of the United States. We were beaten, segregated, raped, enslaved, families torn apart, and brought to near extinction as a people. And then TPTB tried to relegate our history of being slaves to nothing more than indentured servitude which occured later in history. We are the forgotten slaves who were treated every bit as bad as the Africans, and we were every bit as identifiable by our physical characteristics. And that's just one half of my ancestory. The other half were nearly extinct as a people too. Even today they have it worse than any black man. So cry me a river. Why do black people get special treatment? Why are exceptions made to their favor? Why is a kid being charged for offending them with a darn mask? It's because racism IS rampant in our society, and many (not all) black people are being played. The racism here assumes that they need special treatment because obviously they cannot sustain what other races can. That is inherently racist. At least the kid in the gorilla mask didn't feel they were so inferior that they couldn't take an insult.
originally posted by: luthier
a reply to: filthyphilanthropist
Were fat people made slaves, we're fat people given radiation to test the effects of fall out like blacks in St Louis, were fat people hung from trees, segregated, kept from bank accounts, property, so on?
You live in a society man. Personal attacks are not free speech. They are protected but philosphically speaking that isn't what the founders were writing about.
I don't know. I don't care at this point because what does civil rights even mean anymore? What does anything political mean anymore? It's all so muddled. I'm not sure, but I think we are in agreement on the point that you raised. I was replying to someone who said the kid was being charged for inciting a riot or something, and how that isn't protected. Wearing a mask and holding a banana is NOT inciting a riot even if it pisses them off. Whoever responds to it violently or with violent rhetoric would be much closer to having incited a riot. I don't know...
originally posted by: neutronflux
originally posted by: filthyphilanthropist
No it isn't. If a riot started as a result of a gorilla mask and a banana, then someone reacted to it with violence or threatening words. That person would be responsible for inciting a riot. One can demonstrate and suggest that someone else is acting like a monkey all he wants. It is not a call for violence, and it is not shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. It is simply something that pisses off some people. Their stupidity would far surpass Mr. Gorilla mask if they got violent over it.
originally posted by: Cobaltic1978
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: AlbanArthur
Is this not freedom of speech?
No it's potentially inciting a riot.
The charges are about civil rights, not inciting violence?
Members of BLM have trashed and looted cities. Called to burn this mother down. Is that a violation of civil rights?
originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
a reply to: neutronflux
As horrible as it is, the intent to harm has to be established.
You think this asshat didn't "intend to harm" anyone?
Holy Christ. Did you also think that Trump's impersonation of a handicapped reporter was fine and cool and good?
Or talking about "blood coming out of her whatever", or "grab them by the pussy" are okay?
Holy mother of God flipping Christ in a handbasket headed to hell.
m.riverfronttimes.com...
Activists and allies of the Ferguson protest movement were stunned Thursday when a St. Louis County Circuit Court judge sentenced Josh Williams to eight years in prison.
Last month, the nineteen-year-old Williams pleaded guilty to arson, burglary and stealing; the charges stemmed from a December 23, 2014 protest during which Williams was recorded entering a Berkeley QuikTrip (which had initially been broken into by looters) and lighting fires inside and outside the convenience store.