RJB
12-01-2014, 04:48 PM
Every time a wound is opened that needs a good discussion, the media turns Americans against each other rather than against those in power who made it this way. Ferguson is the perfect example.
The average Faux Boobs viewer hears about how scary the ghettoes are and instead of believing in the 2nd Amendment, he cries for more police "protection" in his relatively crimeless suburbs. This just puts more cops in positions to harass honest people.
The MSNBC viewer cries about racism, ignoring that racism is usually the reason why an officer gets in trouble these days. A cop can beat up, falsely charge, kidnap, commit perjury, even murder someone, but as long as he called the victim, "sir," everything is fine. If he called someone an ethnic slur, then he gets in trouble. In this case, MSNBC viewers are convinced that Wilson went after Brown to kill him strictly because he's black. There is no evidence of this. However, it seems he did follow "department policies."
Everytime they get off, it is because they followed department policies, but NO ONE in the media suggests we look at department policies other than how a white cop might act around a black person-- in other words he can do anything but call him an N-word.
This media misdirection happens EVERYTIME. It's fear your black neighbor. It's fear your crazy right winger neighbor. But it's never, your neighbor is cool, lets look at the men behind the curtain whose policies cause this.
As a side. I've liked the discussions here, but two discussions I've found amusing are on two very different types of forums: Neo-nazis and gated community liberals. Both are a bit silly.
The neo Nazis are interesting because a lot seem to dislike both blacks and the cops and it's like watching a reality show of people making off the wall statements that regular people don't say.
The gated community liberals can neither say a bad thing in any way that might be directed against the inner city community for political correctness, but they fear that community so much that they believe that only police officers protect their safety and can not say anything bad about police either. It's like reading a Dostoevsky novel where people think one way but talk another.
Just my little rant...
The average Faux Boobs viewer hears about how scary the ghettoes are and instead of believing in the 2nd Amendment, he cries for more police "protection" in his relatively crimeless suburbs. This just puts more cops in positions to harass honest people.
The MSNBC viewer cries about racism, ignoring that racism is usually the reason why an officer gets in trouble these days. A cop can beat up, falsely charge, kidnap, commit perjury, even murder someone, but as long as he called the victim, "sir," everything is fine. If he called someone an ethnic slur, then he gets in trouble. In this case, MSNBC viewers are convinced that Wilson went after Brown to kill him strictly because he's black. There is no evidence of this. However, it seems he did follow "department policies."
Everytime they get off, it is because they followed department policies, but NO ONE in the media suggests we look at department policies other than how a white cop might act around a black person-- in other words he can do anything but call him an N-word.
This media misdirection happens EVERYTIME. It's fear your black neighbor. It's fear your crazy right winger neighbor. But it's never, your neighbor is cool, lets look at the men behind the curtain whose policies cause this.
As a side. I've liked the discussions here, but two discussions I've found amusing are on two very different types of forums: Neo-nazis and gated community liberals. Both are a bit silly.
The neo Nazis are interesting because a lot seem to dislike both blacks and the cops and it's like watching a reality show of people making off the wall statements that regular people don't say.
The gated community liberals can neither say a bad thing in any way that might be directed against the inner city community for political correctness, but they fear that community so much that they believe that only police officers protect their safety and can not say anything bad about police either. It's like reading a Dostoevsky novel where people think one way but talk another.
Just my little rant...