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Kinchy:
My view from across the pond is that Americas attitude towards authority, and separately towards black people, is massively fucked up
Black people are treated as inherently different, as if somehow it is genetic that they have such a different culture. Part of me wonders if this is just a denial of accepting any responsibility for the situation of some ghettos and that America is responsible for such a large percentage of the black community being so poor.
Secondly, positioning police and other 'authority' figures on some kind of pedestal, immune to being held responsible for their actions, and a culture which covers up their mistakes which are no doubt prejudice influenced.
What worries me more is how much the UK is moving towards a US mentality in many other ways, which I fear will end up in similar situations
Cole:
#WhitePrivilege
slvtn:
Unbelievable action from my German point of view.
I thought about finding at least some few nice words for America, but there's not a single thing I could think of right now.
Prodigal Son:
--- Quote from: Cole on November 25, 2014, 11:23:40 AM ---#WhitePrivilege
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It's interesting to me that there seems to be many that feel this is stripped away. They seem like the people opining for a reincarnation of Regan to give power back to the white man.
--- Quote from: paranoidmexican on November 25, 2014, 08:19:40 AM ---Ferguson is in Missouri. I think the whole thing is a joke. A bad joke.
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Which part do you see as a joke?
barcodebilly:
Over look the fact that he was a 290+lb dude who just robbed a convenience store,which is a crime, that's cool.
That's all I'm going to say about that.
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