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originally posted by: blueman12
a reply to: DBCowboy
Statues were destroyed. Not books. Statues don't teach anything.
The statues might be overboard, but police brutality is a more pressing issue than some people who tore down statues.
originally posted by: blueman12
The white people there seem happy to do segregated stuff. If everyone there is happy, who cares?
originally posted by: headcheck
I’m wondering how the police will handle a whole crowd of people who back the police, and want these dip#s out of our neighborhood? Has anyone ever seen or heard of this situation? I mean let’s suppose there is a whole bunch of bikers, vigilantes, and other people who are from the community who are on the cops side? That would sure be a sight to see, wouldn’t it?
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Bloodworth
The mayor of Seattle just said that they are preparing to take back the police station in the ChazChop Zone. But police will not use tear gas. The city council has forbidden it.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Bloodworth
We've gotten to the point where we don't want to be mean.
It's the same impulse that leads to parents never saying "no" which leads to a generation of brats. It's the same impulse that leads to the empty self-esteem movement where we think our kids need to be told they're awesome no matter what - succeed, fail, whatever, so that when they get into the real world, they can't cope if they can't hack it at something because they never learned how to deal with failing and trying again until they make it.
This is its outgrowth.
If something is wrong, it must be the fault of something else and not the fault of the people involved directly in any way. Someone murders ... oh, well society made him do it. It would be wrong to think *he* failed in some way and led himself down that path through his own personal choices and failures. That would be mean.