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- PhanLo0
- Espo?ben_
- Yep https://www.instagra…PhanLo
- Yup, ESPOutopian
- ah, and I follow him on instagram too, missed it somehow. great stuff as usual.ben_
- racist ass QBN hass a BLM? pleaseblacklivesmatter
- this thread is a farceblacklivesmatter
- instrmntl0
- Saw this the other day. No one's a winner here. He could've at any point said "But it's my house" and then watched the demon grin slide off her face.Nairn
- She was in the wrong the entire time.instrmntl
- Good point, she should have simply ignored someone spraypainting her neighbourhood.Nairn
- Someone was chalking his own wall in 4" tall letters. If he was white she would have assumed it was his place and not threatened him.instrmntl
- Pretty basic.instrmntl
- Most graffitists don't daub their own property. Not a huge leap to assume.
Pretty basic.Nairn - she should've called the cops if she saw someone committing a crime. it's not her place to interrogate someone especially with that condescending tonedorf
- Its chalk!instrmntl
- So passive aggressive!stoplying
- instrmntl isnt that called community vs apathy?deathboy
- and the guy said you have 2 options call the cops or beat it. She approached quite peacefully with 6ft social distancing. he only filmed and got the responsedeathboy
- he hoped for... why film right... and get his 15 minutes of woke the baby famedeathboy
- she could have just called the cops without approaching. than he coudl have his video of being arrested vandalizing his own property without ruining someonedeathboy
- elses job and business. i find this shit terrible and childishdeathboy
- a person who tries to relate and communicate with a non white and told to kick rocks. calls cops and is the bad guy... doesnt do much more the cop calling racedeathboy
- narrative, except call the cops if you see soem shit that looks wrong. dont be civil and question itdeathboy
- shes at home asking why did i feel like i should try and make the situation better with relations and peaceful talk and not fucked for it. fuck next time.deathboy
- its not smart end game but it is politically for parties trying to capitalizedeathboy
- missing part of the storymilfhunter
- Someone's vandalising a wall, an onlooker is concerned and confronts him. Actually quite ballsy from her, most people would keep their heads down.shaft
- Exactly, shaft. Her only failing is her general demenour and lying about knowing who the owner is, the latter of which I totally see the logic of.Nairn
- Clearly he's out to get a rise and some social media cred, because he could have very swiftly and capably put her in her place if he'd said he was the ownerNairn
- omahadesigns-8
- do you wear your hood outside or only in the privacy of your own home? you seem to be one of those types always proudly wearing it in your mind.imbecile
- fucking bag of dicks. Sad sack of shit.tank02
- so quick to call out racism. keeps you from addressing the pointhotroddy
- that's a fake sign that omahadesign made, don't get triggered by the troll.utopian
- The lazy shit job done on this graphic says a lot about the moron who made itnb
- Like we're not talking even basic Photoshop skills required for this... And it's still a total fail.nb
- its funny. ill put it up there with swiftdeathboy
- it's a meme, they make these signs for the outrage du jour. Also, Spike Lee agrees with him lol https://globalnews.c…_niko
- lol @ criticizing the ps skills...PonyBoy
- its all still a funny shareable imagedeathboy
- the government and police force are predominantly white. Ya no mind changing. it checks out.pango
- this pic is qbnblacklivesmatter
- mort_0
- that was disapointing... what‘s up with the respect for life teached in buddhism. I learned some things from this dude, but he goes to some weird places here.uan
- What’s the just of it? Worth a listen?_niko
- It’s worth a listen, even if it’s just for a perspective that people should be discussing but aren’t.Morning_star
- he tries to formulate a solution, better cops. but his argument is based on police reports. he doesn't see the corruption and culture of violence in them.uan
- he should compare statistics of songs against the police vs songs loving police in the last 300 years.uan
- He speaks way too slowly.cherub
- @uan. What’s your solution ?Morning_star
- totally the same solution. I just disagree with his reasoning. but I'm not in the us and maybe it's what his listeners need to hear or something like that.uan
- maybe I expected someone who knows the mind and consciousness and compassion to say enough is enough, lets build an even more inclusive system based on peace.uan
- grafician1
- Fentanyl Flyod.Doris_McSquirter
- that not how he died.
wouldn't you come up with something more relevant like Choked Floyd?pango - in few years they will say he turned water into wine, in 2000 years they will say he was a ginger and founding member of pink floyd and boy george RIP OJ Cosbyrzu-rzu
- oh nooosepango
- BustySaintClaire-5
Slavery rape (just posting to see any boys here that would stand by a cheer it on)
- there's going to be a lot of this dumb shit, though i imagined more assaults and robberies. Emboldened black people vs guilt-ridden whites. Insane._niko
- there will be tons of SJW supporting this dude i'd imagine https://i.pinimg.com…_niko
- might even get a cover of the new yourker lol_niko
- anyone who agree with that shit is a fucked up dumbasspango
- Hellen Skelter. :(Doris_McSquirter
- So, your response to BLM is to post a story about a black rapist? Wow, you really are lost.monospaced
- sarahfailin11
The ratio of troll posts to genuine posts in this thread is troubling, but not unexpected in QBN.
Props to those of you taking the time to learn about black history and racial in equity, and to those trying have good-faith conversations about our role in the struggle.
It's a deep truth that the existence of injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. If you think that the persecution of others can exist indefinitely without consequence for you, you are wrong.
- 90% of what QBNrs say it‘s trolling is contrarian posts by not so left-leaning users on this site. Just man up and stop whining all the time about it.NBQ00
- I‘m left leaning but i can still see some valid points on the other spectrum as well.NBQ00
- Thats bullshit NBQ. Big difference between opposing views vs just baiting with troll posts. Always with a smug ghoulish spin. Never good faith.inteliboy
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.. is a rhetorical trick, not a 'deep' truth.Doris_McSquirter
- People are getting ghoulish here? Really? *turns on night cameracherub
- Just pointing out that sarahfailin's good point is completely proven in this thread. If anybody takes Doris seriously, they're falling for bad faith arguments.garbage
- eddieScissors-5
- Lol. LIke something from Brasseye.Doris_McSquirter
- I don't really dig drawing like this after invention of a camera..rzu-rzu
- deathboy0
for those not "triggered". Actual link as well https://reason.com/2020/06/12/pr… a very good read. also crazy because i didnt here about the bike rider deal, but love its break down of what was stimulus for interaction and how truth had little stimulus.
Anyone who still doubts that woke progressives can pose a material threat to the pursuit of truth should consider the case of David Shor. A week ago, as protests over the unjust police killing of George Floyd took place in major cities across the country, Shor—a 28-year-old political scientist at the Democratic consulting firm Civic Analytics—tweeted some observations about the successes and failures of various movements. He shared research by Princeton University's Omar Wasow, who has found that violent protests often backfire whereas nonviolent protests are far more likely to succeed. The impulse behind Shor's tweet was a perfectly liberal one: He feels progressive reforms are more palatable to the public when protesters eschew violence.
But many progressive activists on social media didn't care whether the impulse was liberal, or even whether it reflected reality. They denounced Shor as a racist for daring to scrutinize the protesters, even if his aim was to make them more effective. One activist accused Shor of using his "anxiety and 'intellect' as a vehicle for anti-blackness." Then she tagged Civis Analytics, and invited the company to "come get your boy."
Get him, they did. Civis Analytics promptly fired Shor.
Liberal writer Jonathan Chait blames Shor's firing on "the spread of distinct, illiberal norms throughout some progressive institutions over the last half-dozen years." Chait knows what he's talking about: In 2015, he wrote an influential New York article titled "Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the language police are perverting liberalism." Chait defined political correctness as "a style of politics in which the more radical members of the left attempt to regulate political discourse by defining opposing views as bigoted and illegitimate," and he arged that "the new p.c. has attained an influence over mainstream journalism and commentary beyond that of the old."
To understand why the "new p.c." attained that influence, it's necessary to revisit another influential magazine article from the same year: "The Coddling of the American Mind," an Atlantic essay penned by the social scientist Jonathan Haidt and the civil libertarian attorney Greg Lukianoff. Their article was later expanded into a book, in which Haidt and Lukianoff blamed an increase in "safetyism"—an impulse to be sheltered not just from physical harm but emotional turmoil—for some of the new hostility to free speech. Their thinking has deeply informed my own writings about the censorious streak in campus activism: In my decade or so of covering higher education, I've reported hundreds of examples of progressive students citing their personal sense of safety as the reason they were demanding that punitive actions be taken against some other individual or entity that had offended them.
While some critics have dismissed the idea that the antics of safety-obsessed college students matter very much to the broader culture, I've long warned that the small number—proportionally speaking—of young people inclined toward these tactics could do serious damage elsewhere. As I wrote in my book Panic Attack, "It's not impossible to imagine the same kind of thing happening in the workplace: picture a boss who is afraid to reprimand negligent young employees out of concern that they will say their PTSD is triggered."
Recent events at The New York Times are an almost perfect demonstration of how this is playing out. Staffers angry about an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R–Ark.) claimed that its publication threatened their very lives. They specifically chose "running this puts black Times staff in danger" as their mantra because it invokes workplace safety. When the authority figure—the boss, the principal, the government—is responsible for ensuring safety, and safety is broadly defined as not merely protection from literal physical violence but also the fostering of emotional comfort, norms of classical liberalism will suffer. (One activist told me that for him, safety requires other people to affirm him.) The Times conflict ended with opinion page chief James Bennet out of his job.
He's not the only one. UCLA recently suspended a lecturer, Gordon Klein, after he declined a demand that he make a final exam "no-harm"—that is, it could only boost grades—for students of color traumatized by the events in Minneapolis. Klein refused, in accordance with guidance from UCLA's administration not to give students much leeway on exams. In response, the activists launched a change.org petition to get Klein fired, and the school suspended him. His irritated reply to the activists—that he would not give preferential exam treatment to students because of their skin color—has prompted UCLA to investigate him for racial discrimination.
University of Chicago economist Harald Uhlig, who had the temerity to criticize some of the more radical demands the protesters have made, is now being pressured to resign as editor of the school's Journal of Political Economy. In this case, it's not random students doing the pressuring, but some of the biggest names in economics: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, University of Michigan professor Justin Wolfers, and even former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, who told the Times that "it would be appropriate for the University of Chicago, which is the publisher of the Journal of Political Economy, to review Uhlig's performance and suitability to continue as editor."
The Times article is a master class in guilt-by-insinuation. The authors could not find a single fact to support the notion that Uhlig is a racist or that he has used his position to thwart black scholars. But he holds some views that would be in conflict with the more progressive Black Lives Matter protesters—he doesn't approve of rioting, and he criticized NFL players for kneeling—and that apparently is suspicious enough.
Chait's piece on Shor includes another, equally powerful example: Intercept journalist Lee Fang, a man of the left by any measure, was denounced as a racist and publicly shamed by a colleague for daring to interview a black protester who criticized violent tactics. The colleague
called him racist in a pair of tweets, the first of which alone received more than 30,000 likes and 5,000 retweets.
A journalist friend of Fang's told me he felt his career was in jeopardy, having been tried and convicted in a court of his peers. He was losing sleep for days and unsure how to respond. "All of us were trying to protect his job and clear his name and also not bow to a mob informed by an attitude that views that you disagree with are tantamount to workplace harassment."
The outcome of this confrontation was swift and one-sided: Two days later, Fang was forced to post a lengthy apology.
Fang was plainly terrified, and not unreasonably fearful of losing his job and being branded a racist forever. The Volokh Conspiracy's David Bernstein called Fang's forced apology "Maoist-style." It's a hyperbolic analogy, referencing the infamous "struggle sessions" of Mao Zedong's totalitarian communism regime. Thankfully, the dissenters from woke orthodoxy are not being tortured or executed for wrongthink. But they do face tremendous pressure to avoid saying anything that might provoke an online mob, or an illiberal colleague, or an activist with different priorities—even if that thing they want to say is plainly true. This new reality has important social consequences: for the individuals caught in the crosshairs, but also the institutions attempting to navigate these very treacherous waters.
Given that so many cancellations hinge on the accusation that safety is being undermined, I would suggest a different metaphor than Mao. Mine is no less hyperbolic, but it puts the focus where my reporting—and Haidt and Lukianoff's research—suggest it should be. In 1793, the Committee of Public Safety took charge of the French Revolution on a promise to "make terror the order of the day." Evidence-free show trials and ideological purges followed, consistent with the radical leaders' belief that public safety requires public terror.
Needless to say, critics of today's radicals do not live in terror of being sentenced to the guillotine. But losing employment and social standing is no small matter. Having a job is usually connected to having health care and economic security: the ability to afford food, housing, and medicine. While some people weather and overcome their cancellation—even profiting from it—others aren't so lucky. We hear a lot about the cases where things worked out eventually (this Olivia Nuzzi piece is a must-read), but many cases never produce a sympathetic backlash that aids the cancelled. And being shamed online by thousands of people over a trivial offense is an unpleasant and exhausting experience, even if it doesn't permanently impact your employment.
This is not to say that every person being cancelled at the moment is a martyr for the cause of free speech. Los Angeles magazine has a list of the recently cancelled. Several were accused of fostering unpleasant work environments. Were they guilty? Maybe so. Recentlty ousted Bon Apetit editor-in-chief Adam Rappaport, for instance, seems like an unpleasant person to work for. Food writer Alison Roman, on the other hand, was dragged on social media for 1) daring to criticize Chrissy Teigen, and 2) wearing an offensive Halloween costume more than a dozen years ago. The photo of Roman was circulated on Twitter by the journalist Yashar Ali, a friend of Teigen with a history of fiercely defending her. Ali claimed the costume was intended as a "chola" stereotype of Mexican-Americans; Roman countered that she was dressed up as Amy Winehouse. Ali deleted his tweet but said he thought it was fair game because Roman had a history of "being called out for appropriation." (Twitter users immediately dug up a photo of Teigen in a culturally appropriative Halloween costume.)
Ironically, the same subset of people ostensibly exercised about emotional safety—the woke left—seem frequently inclined to level unsubstantiated accusations that inflict emotional harm. This makes it difficult to believe that these Twitter warriors' true aim is the promotion of psychological comfort. Did any of them consider Uhlig's mental health after the man was baselessly accused? Does anyone care about Roman, who probably did not expect her enemies to ransack her Myspace page for evidence of racism and then pillory her for a photo taken when she was 23? What about Shor, thrown to the wolves for making a reasonable objection to what one wing of the protesters was doing?
That sounds like terror, not safety. Call it the 1793 Project.
- "anxiety and 'intellect' as a vehicle for anti-blackness.".. better than fictiondeathboy
- cool storypango
- Guessing u didn't read. Because u are anti darkside of readingdeathboy
- And no one wants no trigger emotional reading. Doesn't feed there junkee habits. Reason and emotion are like dark times vs enlightenment erasdeathboy
- Very coolpango
- Yea u got nothing... Some ppl can't be helpeddeathboy
- great story.pango
- omahadesigns-1
- start gating up your windows! USA looking more third world thanks to BLM.hotroddy
- I can't believe they are so stupid, the "defund the police" stuff going to provoke an opposite reactionernexbcn
- expect people to arm themselves even more if they feel the law enforcement is going to be impaired in any wayernexbcn
- how do you expect to increase gun control if you are also proposing to remove the police?ernexbcn
- what's the detail for defund the police?
anyone know?pango
- nb0
Trump to sign Executive Order on Police Reform:
“Basically, we’re going to be talking about things that we’ve been watching and seeing for the last month, and we’re going to have some solutions, some good solutions,” Trump said without providing further details.
The multi-pronged directive is aimed at creating funding incentives for police departments to improve their practices, senior administration officials said in a call with reporters Monday evening.
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Police departments will get rewarded if they can go a while without killing people indiscriminately.
This is going to make things worse.
- Plenty of opportunity to fine tune things during his second term.Doris_McSquirter
- You're gullible and stupid.nb
- "funding incentives" means giving more taxpayers' money to cops. I thought Republicans wanted small govt and reduced spending?nb
- i would of felt more comfortable with a dude that actually had a plan beforehand like bernardeddieScissors
- This is a good thingmonospaced
- I THINK it might be tightening budgets and allocating more appropriately. I hope it is. No way it’s more spending. Not h less the admin is truly corrupt.monospaced
- autoflavour7
Just watched the doco 13th on netflix
The US is so broken
- omahadesigns-7
Now the right thinks BLM is a terrorist organization with a profit motive and their message is that "it's not ok to be white".
- All movements get monetizedGnash
- Just my perspective, but "it's not ok to be white" seems to me to be a component of far left virtue signaller philosophy and not so much BLM...MondoMorphic
- According to BLM, their goal is to "...work vigorously for freedom and justice for Black people and, by extension, all people."MondoMorphic
- i think any movement/org/company that uses violence or harmful coercion is not a good. Why people are scared of monopolies.deathboy
- the threat of being labeled shit or losing job simply for saying no i dont buy your narrative with very solid reasoning. it kind of jumps the sharkdeathboy
- again why media is moving on. catching on after the hype if we keep this shit up we lose all credibility as welldeathboy
- imbecile7
The Strange Story Of The Man Behind 'Strange Fruit'
https://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/1…
One of Billie Holiday's most iconic songs is "Strange Fruit," a haunting protest against the inhumanity of racism. Many people know that the man who wrote the song was inspired by a photograph of a lynching. But they might not realize that he's also tied to another watershed moment in America's history.
Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar treesPastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning fleshHere is a fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop
- mort_-8
