#BLM
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- Projectile6
- Yep, same thing in Canada, it's insane.ben_
- This is so important.nb
- crazy_niko
- put more into education, mental health, after school programs and we wouldn't need so many cops._niko
- wow thats incredible..pedromendez
- So.. if robots don't need pension plans, what does that mean?
YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO COMPLYNairn - i'd kinda prefer a link to the actual source. seems unreal.cotton
- mort_1
- Hmmm, I wonder why they chose to omit data from East Asians, and Chinese AmericansGnash
- doesn't fit with the narrative of oppressive white man._niko
- https://www.pgpf.org…_niko
- curious to see where arabs, Persians and of course Jewish people fit on this chart, probably around or above the asian level i'd imagine._niko
- Maybe they just decided to represent the 3 races with the highest population (2 in the lower chart)
https://i.imgur.com/…mort_ - you want to see racial wealth inequality rampant in the US, have a look at the NBA lol_niko
- Nope. They are clearly positing that race is a determining factor of income potential.Gnash
- they are not positing that income potential is distributed by percentage of population by race.Gnash
- That’s not to say race isn’t factor, but include them all if that is what they are trying to showGnash
- lol, you know exactly what the people who made the graph intended?yuekit
- mort is probably right, these are simply the three biggest demographic groups.yuekit
- Also in terms of comparing groups, you have to look at the history. Asians are mostly recent immigrants where the highly educated came over.yuekit
- Indians for instance do very well in the USA, but not exactly in India.yuekit
- Fair enough. However I don't think any of these points negate the obvious takeaway here - that Black Americans get the shit end of the stick.mort_
- Black people meanwhile were second class citizens on a legal basis within our parents lifetimes.yuekit
- (was replying to Gnash there)mort_
- yes, i know what they intended. Really, dude, you don't? lolGnash
- I mean, basically graph and chart in USA media includes those three groups, it's not a conspiracy.yuekit
- *basically everyyuekit
- Asians aren’t that new to America, railways didn’t build themselves and Japanese internment camps weren’t filled with Mexicans lol._niko
- San Francisco's Chinatown was established in 1848._niko
- True there were some Asian immigrants going back a long time, but the vast majority arrived within the past few decades.yuekit
- https://www.pewsocia…yuekit
- deadsperm3
Martin Luther King Jr.
April 16, 1963
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas... But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
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You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation.
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We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
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- utopian3
Tucker Carlson keeps repeating his own dumb history. The Fox News host again is losing advertisers after saying racist stuff.
- Bluejam10
- That’s a cool ideaGnash
- brilliant!whatthefunk
- We were talking about this at work, what about choosing a colour, paint statues of racist "heroes" in this colour and change the plaques to reflectben_
- their actual history? But yeah, Banksy's idea is great.ben_
- They should fish him out, put him back, and replace the plate with huge and bold letters to let everyone know he was a "racist piece of shit".Maaku
- Don't erase history, just tell the truth. Stop glorifying racist pieces of shit.Maaku
- akiersky4
The Police Report for the Killing of Breonna Taylor Is Almost Entirely Blank
Injuries: none
Forced Entry: nohttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Can you imagine filling out a form like this for an incident in your job? I've put more detail into explaining why I was late to work.
- plash1
- Great until it suggested suicide at the bottom.SteveJobs
- I thought that was the best bit.Nairn
- Also, decent pensmanship.
+1Nairn - i wish people would use white-sided cardboard though, eh? Contrast is key, people. In this case at least, white really is better. (*cringe)Nairn
- . o O ( if only white pens weren't so shite )Nairn
- Yeah white is best!!MrT
- omahadesigns-2
- Trendy events thaty flare up fast always dissipate fast, just give it a few weeksBustySaintClaire
- drgs2
Woke-Taliban is gaining power
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/…
An article about how liberals, accused of insufficient orthodoxy, lose their jobs.
Tl;dr -- criticism of violent protests is criticism against black people, which is not only racist, but also unsafe to your coworkers. The colleagues of the accused of riot-blasphemy are writing letters of complaints to human resources because their racist coworker poses a threat to safety etc
Don't discuss this stuff at work, just in case.History revision, "cleaning the ranks" and the end result of this public psychosis will be a descent into anti-nazi fascism, if thats a thing
- Which will spill over into a new civil war, these guys are waiting:
https://i.imgur.com/…drgs - Not a cultGnash
- wait i thought KKK's the american taliban? this is so confusing.pango
- taliban kills people. have they?pango
- i assume some number of people have died in these riotsdrgs
- Killed by BLM people? Wouldn't the Klan be a more appropriate American Taliban? They have actually killed people. Like first degree kinda shit.pango
- are they even active? not hearing anything from them everdrgs
- there are so much wrong brought out by the BLM subject. if the only thing you choose to criticise is how they protest, makes one wonder your intention.pango
- ya once a while the duke pop his head out to show support to trump.pango
- Which will spill over into a new civil war, these guys are waiting:
- grafician-1
https://www.nytimes.com/interact…
"Over the last two weeks, support for Black Lives Matter increased by nearly as much as it had over the previous two years, according to data from Civiqs, an online survey research firm. By a 28-point margin, Civiqs finds that a majority of American voters support the movement, up from a 17-point margin before the most recent wave of protests began."
- grafician2
https://www.nytimes.com/interact…
"Over the last two weeks, support for Black Lives Matter increased by nearly as much as it had over the previous two years, according to data from Civiqs, an online survey research firm. By a 28-point margin, Civiqs finds that a majority of American voters support the movement, up from a 17-point margin before the most recent wave of protests began."
- BustySaintClaire-5
This year so far, across America, 172 whites and 88 blacks have died at the hands of police. Compare that to Chicago alone in 2020 there have been 1,260 shootings and 256 homicides with blacks being the primary victims. One shooting victim every 3 hours and 1 homicide victim every 15 hours. Only 3 people in Chicago have been killed by police.
- _niko0
- oops meant to post in America is fucked thread_niko
- Both threads are interchangable. BLM is part of the 'Fucked America' phenomenon.Doris_McSquirter
- Abolishing prisons, the police, the nuclear family etc is craziness.Doris_McSquirter
- Fax_Benson3
I'm wondering if the current trend of taking TV shows and films off various platforms is really the best use of time and energy, and isn't just the latest opportunity for people working in inherently biased industries to assuage their guilt. Or to get some guilt credit. Guilt positive.
Last Tuesday or whichever day it was, my instagram feed was almost entirely made up of blacked out squares posted by designers, architects, breweries, food bloggers, photographers etc. All claimed to be showing solidarity with BLM. Barely any of them seem to employ, feature, promote or show an interest in black designers, architects, photographers etc, and haven't since.
We mostly work in some of the most right-on liberal industries - which also seem to be some of the most inaccessible and resistent to change.
I'm certainly no better than any of the people I'm criticizing. I'm not really criticizing. Just wondering whether a 2 week national debate over whether comedians should apologise for making a shit tv show 15 years ago is really helpful.
- They've banned Fawlty Towers ffs.Doris_McSquirter
- yeah, that's exactly the kind of dimwittery I mean.Fax_Benson
- Someone pulled Gone With The Wind because it’s pro-Confederacy... lololnb
- Self-censorship by corporations is so dumb. I have to fly to EU to rent the new Woody Allen film???nb
- I meant Doris's dimwittery - getting worked up about a less important side issue because you've got the basic facts wrongFax_Benson
- I agree. It seems like upper class liberals simultaneously favor these obnoxiously over the top gestures of banning things, etc -- while at the same timeyuekit
- avoiding action on anything of substance.yuekit
- welcome to the shallow culture you support faxdeathboy