In the wake of the riots the only thing that saved one business/home from destruction was the sign "minority owned".
This is what happens when people take what should have been a unifying cause against police brutality, which effects us all of any race, and turns it into a race war where the police officer embodies the whole of the whites and all whites are inherently guilty.
No one is right in any of this, not the rioters, not the people who dismiss the riots, not the people drawing the lines on racial terms and certainly not the police officers.
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The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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@freemo, I had a little conversation with a USAmerican who I (still) believe to be sort of a role model for intelligent online conversation and a leading authority about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,
that left me firmly convinced that The Medium Is The Message,
i.e., that the social dynamics of conversations in Social Media make even the best of us overlook the most obvious facts in all the incessant partisan bickering.
We got into a bit of a dispute about the proper context of Bret Stephens's New York Times OpEd article,
80 years after 1 September 1939.
At some point the USAmerican got annoyed and blocked me,
which prompted me to shoot back at around 05:45 his local time, immediately before boarding the plane for an extended USA trip.
Long thread, and twitter tries very hard to censor the thread for hate speech (which is technically correct) just short of blocking it,
but maybe worth the read precisely because of that:
https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/1167588228062502918
https://twitter.com/Tatzelbrumm/status/1168575251766288386
https://twitter.com/sfmnemonic/status/1168580054789578752
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168811726265040896
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168811961913622528
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168812080704708608
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168812194487816192
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168812331805138944
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168813007754973185
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168813317235924992
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1168813456029552640
In a case of ridiculously unlikely serendipity, I met the guy, immediately before boarding the plane for the return trip from LAX to Germany:
https://twitter.com/tat2elbrumm/status/1205250528210325505
"You remind me of Hitler." — "Very funny."
@IntegralDuChemin Have you tried being a decent human being and approaching them like equals? I hear that's their kink!
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A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
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