Michael Brown
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
I have never met a person that's without prejudice.
Having prejudice about a person or group of people does not make you a racist, there is more to it than that.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Agreed. But it starts with classifying people into groupings based on your prejudices. It's rather more of a grayscale. When does it stop being a prejudice and turn into racism?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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I'm basically with you - But I also often hear people being shot multiple times by cops. I'm an Air Force Sergeant, and from my (and my instructor's) experiences I can tell you that you don't need to shoot someone multiple times, once they're hit they are unlikeable to be dangerous. If cops need more than two shots to bring someone down they aren't racist, but in need of more training at the gun. I can hit an area of 2 square inches over a distance of 27 Yards, why shouldn't a cop be able to do the same?
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I take it you have a .45
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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We live in a racist society. If we did not the report would have said a policeman shot an unarmed 18 year old with no mention of race. By news accounts you would think Mr. Brown was an innocent small kid not a large mean man. Notice I left out the word young (man) as that would not be PC. :) It is hard for anyone when the media labels you. Innocent or guilty if the media says something true or not, people will go along with it. Imagine if the media reports were "Criminal attacks policeman and is killed" what kind of outcry then? I am not saying Mr. Brown was a criminal as he has not been convicted of the robbery, this is a hypothetical example.
Indeed we do. Is there any (reasonably) unbiased news source where I read about this?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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I take it you have a .45
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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I wasn't actually referring to your SIG but the sig of JSOP. But I guess you knew that already.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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chriselst wrote:
Every time someone says they're not racist I assume from that moment on that they are.
Never assume anything... In any case, if you call someone a racist, how do you expect to respond? Be a bit like an innocent man being accused of rape saying "I'm not a rapist". In your mind he is now extra guilty.
Karel Čapek wrote:
Be a bit like an innocent man being accused of rape saying "I'm not a rapist".
It's more like someone randomly saying "I'm not a rapist" for no apparent reason. ;P Starting a conversation by denying something that you haven't yet been accused of is always suspicious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOtpgz4L5d8[^]
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Agreed. But it starts with classifying people into groupings based on your prejudices. It's rather more of a grayscale. When does it stop being a prejudice and turn into racism?
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
When does it stop being a prejudice and turn into racism?
When you decide that someone is inferior to you simply because of the race they are. When you decide to abuse or mistreat someone simply because of the race they are. When you refuse to let someone do something something simply because of the race they are. It's not too difficult to not be a racist.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm basically with you - But I also often hear people being shot multiple times by cops. I'm an Air Force Sergeant, and from my (and my instructor's) experiences I can tell you that you don't need to shoot someone multiple times, once they're hit they are unlikeable to be dangerous. If cops need more than two shots to bring someone down they aren't racist, but in need of more training at the gun. I can hit an area of 2 square inches over a distance of 27 Yards, why shouldn't a cop be able to do the same?
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Marco Bertschi wrote:
why shouldn't a cop be able to do the same?
Because the difference is night and day when in training / practice compared to being in a real life-threatening situation where adrenaline is high. Same thing as being in a fight really. All the practice in fight class, it helps, but nothing still compares to the real thing.
Jeremy Falcon
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Every time someone says they're not racist I assume from that moment on that they are.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
What do you suggest as a test then? Ducking?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I don't have a racist bone in my body, and I'm an educated and reasonable guy.... This whole Ferguson situation isn't about race. Race had NOTHING to do with it. Here are the FACTS, and apparently, the grand jury and the evidence agree... 1. Michael Brown goes into a store and commits a strong arm robbery. 2. Call goes out to police. 3. Officer Darren Wilson spots brown and confronts him. 4. Brown attacks Wilson and Wilson defends himself. 5. Brown died in the commission of a felony. I have ZERO sympathy for thugs who commit crimes and die in the process, white or black. JUSTICE WAS SERVED!
zephaneas wrote:
I have ZERO sympathy for thugs who commit crimes and die in the process, white or black.
JUSTICE WAS SERVED!He stole a box of cigars. I'm not saying he didn't deserve punishment, but being completely ok with killing him over cigars makes you no less heartless than the criminals themselves.
Jeremy Falcon
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zephaneas wrote:
I have ZERO sympathy for thugs who commit crimes and die in the process, white or black.
JUSTICE WAS SERVED!He stole a box of cigars. I'm not saying he didn't deserve punishment, but being completely ok with killing him over cigars makes you no less heartless than the criminals themselves.
Jeremy Falcon
They keep trying to warn people that smoking is seriously bad for your health and can cause an early death. Don't remember seeing a pack with a death by cop warning on it though.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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zephaneas wrote:
I have ZERO sympathy for thugs who commit crimes and die in the process, white or black.
JUSTICE WAS SERVED!He stole a box of cigars. I'm not saying he didn't deserve punishment, but being completely ok with killing him over cigars makes you no less heartless than the criminals themselves.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
killing him over cigars
He wasn't killed "over cigars", he was killed as an unfortunate side effect of an officer in fear of his life stopping the threat...
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
killing him over cigars
He wasn't killed "over cigars", he was killed as an unfortunate side effect of an officer in fear of his life stopping the threat...
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I know that, but the justification that made it ok was him being a criminal. The criminal act was over cigars. Thus the cigars were the "supposed" catalyst for the happy trigger time justification that started the whole mess in the first place, without which would've made this wrong according to the OP. As such, his point regarding that and the pursuit death was over the cigars. Come on man, common sense. Everyone knows what's meant by that, duh.
Jeremy Falcon
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I know that, but the justification that made it ok was him being a criminal. The criminal act was over cigars. Thus the cigars were the "supposed" catalyst for the happy trigger time justification that started the whole mess in the first place, without which would've made this wrong according to the OP. As such, his point regarding that and the pursuit death was over the cigars. Come on man, common sense. Everyone knows what's meant by that, duh.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
common sense.
The problem with common sense is that it's not that common!!
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I'm basically with you - But I also often hear people being shot multiple times by cops. I'm an Air Force Sergeant, and from my (and my instructor's) experiences I can tell you that you don't need to shoot someone multiple times, once they're hit they are unlikeable to be dangerous. If cops need more than two shots to bring someone down they aren't racist, but in need of more training at the gun. I can hit an area of 2 square inches over a distance of 27 Yards, why shouldn't a cop be able to do the same?
The console is a black place
Marco Bertschi wrote:
I'm an Air Force Sergeant, and from my (and my instructor's) experiences I can tell you that you don't need to shoot someone multiple times, once they're hit they are unlikeable to be dangerous.
So you would claim that if you were in an urban war zone and some one starts shooting at your squad from down the street that exactly one and only one of your squad would shoot only one bullet? And then perhaps send another squad member down to check on that person before deciding whether to shoot another bullet?
Marco Bertschi wrote:
I can hit an area of 2 square inches over a distance of 27 Yards, why shouldn't a cop be able to do the same?
Perhaps because oddly enough every police officer is not a clone of you? Or perhaps because police officers deal with many other things, routinely, which have nothing to do with actually shooting targets?
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
When does it stop being a prejudice and turn into racism?
When you decide that someone is inferior to you simply because of the race they are. When you decide to abuse or mistreat someone simply because of the race they are. When you refuse to let someone do something something simply because of the race they are. It's not too difficult to not be a racist.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
chriselst wrote:
that someone is inferior to you simply because of the race they are.
Wow. Someone who actually knows what racists means. :thumbsup: Society seems to forget that keyword every time they accuse someone of being racist. Racism is losing the original meaning. Making a rude remark against a certain race is not racism unless you can show that person feels their race is superior.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Protesters are protesting. Rioters are rioting and looters are looting. They are not the same thing. An excuse can be a convenient one if you want to be an asshole.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Marco Bertschi wrote:
why shouldn't a cop be able to do the same?
Because the difference is night and day when in training / practice compared to being in a real life-threatening situation where adrenaline is high. Same thing as being in a fight really. All the practice in fight class, it helps, but nothing still compares to the real thing.
Jeremy Falcon
I always like it when people describe what a tolerable (or even legal) reaction is to a violent situation. Like when you're supposed to stop, or how many times you can hit when retaliating. It's always very apparent that those people haven't ever been in a violent situation.
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They keep trying to warn people that smoking is seriously bad for your health and can cause an early death. Don't remember seeing a pack with a death by cop warning on it though.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
