Video emerges of Minneapolis police killing a citizen - - Riots

[iambecomelife]

Another aside....this guy has a point about corporate co-opting of social movements.

I mean, really - who thinks that political bundlers, the bigwigs at Amazon and all the other companies trumpeting "wokeness" these days are genuine? When I go to order something online I'm greeted with a big "socially conscious" banner. Personally, I think most corporate leaders are trying to make a quick buck with "wokeness". Kind of like how oil companies engage in "greenwashing" to make themselves look good. Meh. I guess it's their job - part ppl from their money by any means necessary. But it doesn't make it any less cringey.

[iambecomelife]

Well, more ugliness at the protests - hard to believe it's already been like a month. In my city on the West Coast, they just tried to storm the police station AGAIN. And ultra-Right + ultra-Left groups have been brawling each other. It's like Weimar Germany, with trashier looking participants.

And a group of protesters got hit by a car in Seattle - I believe one lady has died. They tried to claim it was a racist attack but that seems unlikely, and the driver (whom extremists doxxed) was a black man. It seems like he just didn't see them; after all it was a highway at night.

hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jtXAP06qzA

(Graphic content, FYI).

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Well, more ugliness at the protests - hard to believe it's already been like a month. In my city on the West Coast, they just tried to storm the police station AGAIN. And ultra-Right + ultra-Left groups have been brawling each other. It's like Weimar Germany, with trashier looking participants.

And a group of protesters got hit by a car in Seattle - I believe one lady has died. They tried to claim it was a racist attack but that seems unlikely, and the driver (whom extremists doxxed) was a black man. It seems like he just didn't see them; after all it was a highway at night.

hxxps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jtXAP06qzA

(Graphic content, FYI).

I love your description of the trashier rioters

I do have to point out, since racism is not exclusively restricted to white people, it could be racist. If I run over some protesters I'm gonna claim I didn't see them too.

I still don't see why blocking highways and roads is permitted... They should all be arrested for safety violations. That highway in Seattle has been blocked 19 straight days, those people are crazy to allow that.

[Skybird]

Two days ago a German newspaper commeneted that in the Third Reich there was the Abstammungsnachweis. In a way this has come back now - with every white human now being officially a racist due to his skin colour, and has to feel guilty.

Wrote a German mainstream newspaper.

Lets not forget, whatever there is evil and bad int he world, it is always the West's fault. And capitalism only steals and plunders, while socialism is the better world.

When that plane flew over a british stadium with a banner "white lives matter [cityname]", German main TV news on ZDF channel on the same evening even altered the translation into German ("nur weiße Leben zählen") so that the claim of racism was "proven". The german mistranslation turned back into in English would be "only white lives matter". But that was not what the banner said. And as I wrote back on that day, it is not clear what the pilot was ticking like, whether he was a KKK guy and white supremacist indeed, or was just pissed by the ideologically motivated witch hunting on every channel and in ever street, trying to bullying any disagreeing opinion away - and so pointe dout that not just black lives mattered, but white lives matters as well, means: every life matters.

What has come of that story, is anything known about the pilot and his motives now? I lost track of it.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Two days ago a German newspapere commeneted that in the Third Reich there were the Abstammungsnachweis. In a way this has come back now - with every white human now being officially a racist due to his skin colour.



Wrote a German mainstream newspaper.

NOT TO BE OUT DONE BY THOSE BLOODY WOGS IN ZIMBABWE IN THIS AM's NEWSPAPER:
https://apnews.com/7eae9a42465074ff4b3eb20399991251

While much of the world is engrossed in the race-related outrage over the death of George Floyd in the United States, Zimbabwe’s young people with albinism are fighting prejudices against the color of their skin.

In nearby Malawi and Tanzania, many people with albinism are killed because their body parts are thought to bring good luck. No such killings have been reported in Zimbabwe, which has about 70,000 people with albinism out of a population of about 15 million.

But prejudices remain deep-rooted.

Some people stare, whistle or verbally abuse those with albinism when they walk along the streets. Some believe sleeping with them can cure HIV. Many others treat albinism as a curse....“I only started living my life two years ago. The stigma had gotten to me that most times. I felt I wasn’t as human as the others. I am now making up for those lost years,” Gumbo said. She said she only started making friends after she finished school, where she had been treated as an outcast by fellow students and even teachers.

IT SEEMS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES WITH A PROBLEM OVER SKIN COLOR. BUT IN AMERICA WE DON'T CARVE UP TOO MANY FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES....YET.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

IT SEEMS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES WITH A PROBLEM OVER SKIN COLOR. BUT IN AMERICA WE DON'T CARVE UP TOO MANY FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES....YET.

Wait until the Chinese have conquered America and bring their traditional Chinese medicine with them...

[Aktungbby]

THAT WILL BE THE APOTHEOSIS OF APOTHECARY INASMUCH AS WE USED SMALLPOX TO ERADICATE THE ASIATIC MIGRATORY DECENDANTS IN NORTH AMERICA PRIMARILY WITH SMALLPOX(SIR JEFFRY AMHERST WAS A WAR CRIMINAL?!!) ie:THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN IS A DEAD INDIAN-WITH APOLOGIES TO WINNETOU AND TONTO...AND SOME 200 YEARS THE LATER, THE THE COMPLIMENT IS BEING RETURNED WITH THE CORONA VIRUS.

[Onkel Neal]

California couple charged with hate crime for allegedly vandalizing Black Lives Matter mural

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california...ry?id=71668864

But destroying a statue of Columbus or defacing a statue of Churchill, that's totally not a hate crime. Yeah.

[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

California couple charged with hate crime for allegedly vandalizing Black Lives Matter mural

https://abcnews.go.com/US/california...ry?id=71668864

But destroying a statue of Columbus or defacing a statue of Churchill, that's totally not a hate crime. Yeah.

Must have been worth more than $900 that's the limit now for crime reported in the state of California for the police to respond

[August]

The same people who charge that couple claim that these are Peaceful protesters

[Buddahaid]

It does spoil the message. It always boils down to the stupids ruining everything righteous.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by August

The same people who charge that couple claim that these are Peaceful protesters

Good video. He's right, while Chicago PD has to fight the white mobs, black people are being gunned down across the city.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

But destroying a statue of Columbus or defacing a statue of Churchill, that's totally not a hate crime. Yeah.

Well, Columbus and Churchill were individuals, not an ethnic group or some other kind of demographic. So unless said vandalism included something like “death to all white people”, it’s not a hate crime.

And the couple in question seem particularly stupid, saying stuff like “there is no racism. It's a leftist lie”. Because apparently every time you’ve seen someone (white, black, Chinese, or anyone else) discriminated against based on race was actually an illusion created by Stalin.

Originally Posted by Buddahaid

It does spoil the message. It always boils down to the stupids ruining everything righteous.

Exactly. Fighting racism is a noble goal, but destroying innocent small businesses, blocking traffic, etc. just harms that message. People won’t want to listen to you if you get them fired from their job for being late.

[Onkel Neal]

Looks like some savvy black guy has figured out these white punks are making his life harder.

For more than an hour on Thursday evening, activist Edreece Phillips, 48, a Black hip-hop artist who's been protesting for weeks, had been keeping protesters and sightseers off the fence enclosing the federal courthouse. He said he'd talked to federal officials earlier in the day and said they'd agreed that if protesters stayed back, agents would stay inside the courthouse.

“They don’t come out unless we try to get in," Phillips said. "All that stuff people are doing is making it so that Black voices are being heard less and less and less.”

At one point, Phillips warily watched as other protesters drifted closer to the federal building. He then snatched a sign from a young man and stomped on it.

"I am sick of you doing this," Phillips yelled to the protester, who was dressed in all black, goggles atop his head and a respirator dangling from his neck. "I have warned you already. I'm sick of it."

Phillips punched the protester moments later, yelling that the protester's actions would draw a violent response from federal agents inside the courthouse, weakening the protest's message.
The young man responded with some quiet words but didn't move. In reply, Phillips punched the man several times, knocking him to the ground.

Another protester, Teal Lindseth, 21, then turned on Phillips.

“Do not come out here to fight!" she screamed at him as a crowd surrounded them. "We can’t afford violence.”

The night before, small groups of white protesters aligned with Black Lives Matter had thrown water bottles at the federal court building, shot fireworks at the front doors and tried to shake the fence loose.

“A lot of the people who are doing it are not Black. They throw **** and start **** and run away and yell 'Black Lives Matter,' and then go home and take off their clothes. But I can’t take off my black," Phillips said. "And the more damage they do to this building— well, everyone thinks it’s people of color doing all this and it’s not. “

Hip-hop artist and Black Lives Matter protester Edreece Phillips, 48,
yells at a fellow protester for getting close to the security fence ringing the federal
courthouse in Portland, Oregon on July 23, 2020.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rm/5499523002/

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

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I saw one case of a black man being called a race traitor for carrying an American flag. Of course, all the people yelling at him were privileged white people.

It honestly seems like some people don’t care about the noble goals of stopping police brutality and making life better for black Americans, and just want to feel important. And that means that many of them will stop caring after a while, and more police brutality will occur...

Black lives matter. They matter more than some white kid’s temper tantrum.

Though of course, I doubt that most white people aligned with BLM are like this (partly because I’m a white person who strongly agrees with BLM when it comes to police brutality). The media just likes to focus on the most sensational and attention-grabbing stories. I’d say that the gun owners here are aware of that fact.