THATS THE ONE!This Blair White?
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I would make the same point @Marlow does in that people need to seriously take their news sources into question, and that the opining of far-right provocateurs whose literal goal is to "trigger lefties" is not a politically serious endeavor and will rot your brain
If you don't want to be called a racist, don't act racist and don't post racist nonsense. Don't evade questions about racism and come up with something better than girl I'm not racist when people call you out in it.
Yes, you've proved my point exactly. Ben Shapiro's job is to avoid discussing actual policy, he just wants to talk about the hidden motives of a movement and their rhetoric. The reason he doesn't is because, again, the actual policy is non controversial - there's pretty steady support for things like redistribution of bloated police budgets, removing Confederate monuments, and acknowledgment of a serious race inequality. That's why they talk around it by trying to make it seem like everything is a trojan horse for authoritarian control, as if a decentralized movement is the one exerting power and not a fed up discriminated class.
Yes, this is a right-wing policy position, regardless of how that makes anyone feel. Would argue, however, that if secret police are disappearing people into unmarked vans and the highest ranking lawyer in the country is advocating for elected officials to be arrested because of the acts of its constituents and the President refers to 200k deaths in six months as a statistical shrug, I would say the current gov't cares little for people's rights and safety
It's no secret that the United States' annual budget is mostly spent on Social Security and Medicaid, which are consequently its most popular and supported features. There has been a consistent effort, since it was first passed in the 30's, to dismantle it or weaken it, to the point that now Donald Trump's suspension of the collection of payroll tax will, unless rolled back, bankrupt Social Security within a few years. In addition, the US will pay $32 trillion to maintain a healthcare system that is woefully unjust and exclusionary on the basis of earnings, in a country where the minimum wage is not a liveable wage in any state. Meanwhile, the top earners in this country do not pay their fair share to help contribute to these programs. Unspeakable cruelty. It is possible to have a welfare system and also punish those who lack means, which is what this country does.
Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
Absolutely. The agenda of the Trump administration has been very clear: teachings about systemic racism and critical race theory are un-American and a threat to democracy, somehow, and if you teach this in your schools, we want to punish you for it. The Constitutionality of that act is in question, so instead the Department of Education is now threatening Princeton with a loss of federal funds for its president stating that "racist assumptions from the past are embedded in the structures," a tacit agreement that a systemic racial bias needs to be actively worked against.
Statistics don't really bear that out. https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/05/the-57375-years-of-life-lost-to-police-violence/559835/
Just recently in Kenosha we had a young white man walking around with a rifle who shot and killed multiple protesters. The police let him walk right by them. Tamir Rice was a 12 year old boy in Cleveland who was shot for holding a toy gun.
https://theathletic.com/1849574/2020/06/02/a-conversation-retired-african-american-mlb-players-on-race-baseball-america/
I don't want to be disrespectful. But frankly spoken I see myself only confirmed by your post.
Although it may seem excessively simplistic, the way I see it is if you disregard instruction from the police you're attempting one of two things: to flee the scene of the crime or reach for a weapon. I don't see any gray area in this matter. Even if you're deaf, mute, and don't speak English, if a police officer is pointing a gun at you and saying something, you should remain still. Were I police officer in this situation and a suspect (violent or not) were to disobey orders to remain still, I would assume they were reaching for a weapon and act accordingly. Again, I see no excuse to do anything but remain still, especially if you're innocent.
If that's the case why are black men so much more likely to die at the hands of police than white men?
Is there an equal amount of wealth distribution between black and white men? Are the ghettos and homeless shelters equally full of black and white men? Are there an equal amount of educated black and white men in the US?
Imagine you have a set of coins that you use for a coin toss, and you're trying to tell if the coins are fair or not. You can never know if your coin is fair on each individual coin toss. Maybe the balance is off, maybe how you choose to flip it is off, maybe how you choose to hold it or which side you choose to have up is skewing the results. Maybe different coins in your set are balanced differently. Either way, every toss is an individual event. Yet every individual event is hinting at some sort of statistical distribution behind the scenes.
There's not, and that's kind of the issue. These situations are out of proportion with what we'd expect given the actual makeup of populations.
Just giving food for thought here for the sake of open discussion. I'm not a Trump supporter (not a Biden supporter either) and I do support the basic idea of BLM, which is that black lives matter. I support protesting but I don't support rioting, simply because it is inevitable that it will lead to chaos and misguided anarchy (see: many felons and people with nothing else to do in their lives looting and rioting for no reason other than they can).
It is not a right-wing policy position as much as it is a fact of life. As the proverb says, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. This concept also applies to the role of government, which can either give you stuff at someone else's expense or encourage you to become educated by learning a skill or trade that has value in the private as well as public sector. The individual, not the government, is the basis for any efficient laissez-faire economy.
The leadership of the Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter are neither interested in statistics nor a post-racial America. Racial issues excite their base which in turn leads to political power, similarly to how abortion and gay marriage excite the Evangelical vote for the Republican Party except that Evangelicals are considered Puritans while Black Lives Matter enjoys an approval rating of over 50%. In fact, Black Lives Matter dictates the Democratic platform on all racial issues, which is why Biden is afraid of condemning the looting and rioting of some of the BLM members.
It is, quite literally, a right-wing position. From Wikipedia article of the same name:
He does this, literally, all the time. A small collection:
Why do people keep saying this? Just like with athletes and celebrities, the second video is either being ignored or they haven't seen it.
