DOJ: Ferguson PD descrimination against blacks is routine

[Wolrab]

Damn. I guess I'm one of the few that sees the people of Ferguson as real people and not a sad sack bunch of losers incapable of overcoming adversity.

What I see here are people making excuses as to why their brown brethren should accept their lot in life. Maybe you superior people can step in and help them as they are incapable of doing so by themselves.

 

[wareyin]

No, it doesn't. Not voting is approving the current system. And I've seen nobody put forward voting as the only means of effecting change. It is part of the solution.

I don't agree with the highlighted. Not voting does not mean you approve of the current system, it only means you didn't vote. This is rather like saying that by not personally stopping police officers from harassing innocent civilians, you are approving police officers harassing innocent civilians.

 

[Upchurch]

Damn. I guess I'm one of the few that sees the people of Ferguson as real people and not a sad sack bunch of losers incapable of overcoming adversity.

No, you're one of the people who doesn't seem to understand the reality of what's been going on and thinks that it's just a matter of "their brown brethren" being too lazy.

What I see here are people making excuses as to why their brown brethren should accept their lot in life.

Then you haven't been paying attention at all.

 

[Upchurch]

I don't agree with the highlighted. Not voting does not mean you approve of the current system, it only means you didn't vote. This is rather like saying that by not personally stopping police officers from harassing innocent civilians, you are approving police officers harassing innocent civilians.

It could also indicate a lack of faith that the election process will actually help you in any way.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I don't agree with the highlighted. Not voting does not mean you approve of the current system, it only means you didn't vote. This is rather like saying that by not personally stopping police officers from harassing innocent civilians, you are approving police officers harassing innocent civilians.

If you don't approve of the current system you should vote.

 

[wareyin]

If you don't approve of the current system you should vote.

If you don't approve of police harassing innocent civilians, you should go stop them personally. See how easy that was to say? Did it change anything?

 

[Upchurch]

If you don't approve of the current system you should vote.

Those colonists should have totally kept sending emissaries to King George asking for better treatment. Slaves shouldn't have run away from their masters.

Because when a system is broken and out to get you, working within that system is the only proper thing to do.

 

[ponderingturtle]

If you don't approve of the current system you should vote.

Or seek second amendment solutions, that is what it is there for after all.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

If you don't approve of police harassing innocent civilians, you should go stop them personally. See how easy that was to say? Did it change anything?

You're trivializing. If you don't approve of police harassing innocent civilians you should vote for people who will change the culture that allows them to do that. Excuses, so many excuses.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Those colonists should have totally kept sending emissaries to King George asking for better treatment. Slaves shouldn't have run away from their masters.

Because when a system is broken and out to get you, working within that system is the only proper thing to do.

Better to do nothing, yes?

 

[Upchurch]

Better to do nothing, yes?

In those other situations, did they do nothing?

 

[wareyin]

You're trivializing. If you don't approve of police harassing innocent civilians you should vote for people who will change the culture that allows them to do that. Excuses, so many excuses.

Trivializing, indeed. As though there is always a choice when voting, when key officials are running unopposed. As though people struggling to make ends meet should all get out there and run for an office that requires long hours and hard work, but only pays $250 a month, if you get elected, and after you have called attention to yourself from a retaliatory and criminal police force. But golly, voting solves everything, and not voting means you approve of the current system. Trivializing things, indeed.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

In those other situations, did they do nothing?

When did I say that?

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Trivializing, indeed. As though there is always a choice when voting, when key officials are running unopposed. As though people struggling to make ends meet should all get out there and run for an office that requires long hours and hard work, but only pays $250 a month, if you get elected, and after you have called attention to yourself from a retaliatory and criminal police force. But golly, voting solves everything, and not voting means you approve of the current system. Trivializing things, indeed.

You're going over previously covered ground.

 

[wareyin]

You're going over previously covered ground.

I think you mean previously ignored ground. But please, continue trivializing the issue with voting platitudes.

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I think you mean previously ignored ground. But please, continue trivializing the issue with voting platitudes.

You need to read the thread.

 

[ponderingturtle]

They should go with the old american stand by for protesting, destruction of private property while dressed as another race. There is nothing that wins american hearts and minds better, why else would the Boston Tea Party be so celebrated?

 

[Upchurch]

When did I say that?

It's a question, not a quote.

When did I ever say they should do nothing?

 

[wareyin]

You need to read the thread.

I did. That's where I found such gems as "not voting is approving the current system".

 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I did. That's where I found such gems as "not voting is approving the current system".

When I said "read the thread" I meant more than just the last page.