Joel
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What do those thugs hope to accomplish by destroying their neighbourhoods? They should be rioting about hockey games, football games, or baseball games like us!
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They hope to accomplish a new tv, iPod, some nice pillow cases, perhaps a few dollars in coins. The riots have nothing to do with the Mr. Grey and everything to do with the usual groups of thugs, thieves and criminals turning a serious issue into an excuse to pillage and burn up the town for their own nefarious purposes.
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They don't care = Black people don't care?
They see it as a free night to not listen to rules and do whatever they want`= Black people see it as a free night to not listen to rules and do whatever they want.
I mean, I'm just assuming, however, you can strike me down and prove my assumptions as
wrong.. Do as you feel.
So, tonight's a free night for me to do whatever I want? Excuse me, I'll just grab myself a plane ticket and head out to Baltimore to see my sister and we'll use our combined blackness to part seas of white people and burn down CVS pharmacies just by stepping near them.
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Please don't tell me you're one of those people that try finding racism in everything no matter what.
It seems pretty damned clear he was referencing those actually doing the rioting.
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No, I'm not one of those people and actually, I was kind-of joking.
Though, I'm fairly sure that around 99% of the rioters are black.. just saying. Baltimore is basically a Saint Louis 2.0.. how do I know this? Well, I'm from Saint Louis, and I've seen the inner city of Baltimore.. there isn't much different. I also have a sis who lives there which I visit from time to time.
Also, if you want to say black people... just say it.. it's not forbidden in discussion, is it?
Though, I'm fairly sure that around 99% of the rioters are black.. just saying. Baltimore is basically a Saint Louis 2.0.. how do I know this? Well, I'm from Saint Louis, and I've seen the inner city of Baltimore.. there isn't much different. I also have a sis who lives there which I visit from time to time.
Also, if you want to say black people... just say it.. it's not forbidden in discussion, is it?
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It's not forbidden, but it does reinforce what Northstar was saying b/c you ended your post by telling him to just to say black people if he wants. Why would anyone want to say it now if your previous post was nothing more than mockery & jumping to the conclusion that you had been clumped in with all the rioters after it wasn't said at all? So that your post had merit in its assumptions?
How about if that's not what he wants at all because he isn't talking about black people in the first place? What if "they" is actually referring to the people rioting?
It's exactly why black people get the reputation of pulling the race card at any instance.
How about if that's not what he wants at all because he isn't talking about black people in the first place? What if "they" is actually referring to the people rioting?
It's exactly why black people get the reputation of pulling the race card at any instance.
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Can't anyone mention a plural word when describing people that are majority black?
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Well I never.....!! What an accusation!!Please don't tell me you're one of those people that try finding racism in everything no matter what.
It seems pretty damned clear he was referencing those actually doing the rioting.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/threads/walking-across-the-street.292825/
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I'm referencing the stereotype which does assume all, not some. I'm not actually entertaining the thought that all black people pull the race card or that Phil is one of those folks. I know only some pull it, but the "they=black" post & then following it up with "you can say black if you want" (even after Blitz was just berated for saying "they" in place of "black") doesn't do anything to curb said stereotype.
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Did you have fun looking through my history?
That was mainly a reaction to the things I was experiencing at the time.
I have a whole deck of black cards, though I haven't used them in a while.
Just sitting here and thinking about who came up with the stupid phrase "black card".
@McLaren I just want people to say what they truly mean sometimes. It's annoying seeing people try to go around their true intentions/words. Just say what you have to say and leave it at that.
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But, how do you know that's what Blitz meant initially? What if "they" really did mean rioters? You say it's annoying to see people go around their true intentions, but your assumption wasn't exactly any less annoying itself.
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Never said what I did say originally wasn't an assumption. I openly admitted that it was an assumption. Vaguely saying "They"
leaves a-lot unanswered when it comes to who exactly they're talking about.These they people seem pretty bad, especially considering what they did in Ferguson. Who the hell are they?
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If it's not clear to you what "they" is referring to, why did you automatically assume they=black & it was a personal attack against you?Never said what I did say originally wasn't an assumption. I openly admitted that it was an assumption. Vaguely saying "They"
These they people seem pretty bad, especially considering what they did in Ferguson. Who the hell are they?
Why not assume otherwise? Why not actually ask Blitz to elaborate first?
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Did you have fun looking through my history?
I didn't need to look through your history. My mind has quite extensive files on a lot of GTP members. It's not the first time since your "Walking......" thread that you've weighed in on a race conversation. Generally your tone comes across as more deliberately but uncomfortably playful though. You seem torn about what your outlook should be - defensive and combative or flippant and dismissive.
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Doesn't answer the "why" you assumed in the first place, unfortunately....
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You want me to answer.
Well, having spoke to many people about the Ferguson stuff, they either referred to the blacks protesting as "thugs" or "they". I feel like I'm done giving people the benefit of the doubt when those words are used to describe people when there's a racially charged protest/riot. I will say that a few of the people that I spoke to about the Ferguson stuff were somewhat prejudice and uncomfortable discussing race around people of minorital backgrounds.
One of my reasons.
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Sooooo...... daaaaaamn....... racist.
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How would you refer to the people involved?
With any other race im pretty certain you would involve the people in question as ''they'' in most cases(just like the people you asked about the situation).
The problem is there is probably a wide range of people involved in the Riot/Protest, from genuine protesters to Thugs taking advantage of a Situation via Looting.
However, ''They'' can still be referred to as those on a certain side of the Situation regardless of their different actions.
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Joel
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This is what I was getting at earlier. White sports fans burn things and loot stores after a game, and they get called maybe idiots at best. When white people burn and destroy stuff over sports it's celebrating, reveling, "rowdy", and it doesn't get appllied to the entirely of white people.
Black people riot about police brutality and they're thugs, savages, the worst is "animals". It's all very thinly veiled.
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Uh oh, there's no retract like function.
That wasn't the point I was making. @phillkillv2 used the exact same word as was deemed an issue. The word that I bolded, and phillkill previously bolded.
It applied in the thread I linked above, and I think it applies here.......
I think that @Blitz24 is owed an apology.
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Which has been shown to be the case when? Do you know of any cases where race was proven as a motivating factor in a police killing?
You sure? The most famous sports riot in recent Canadian History is the Vancouver hockey riot of 2011. The crowd was mostly white with some Asian mixed in for good measure, reflecting the Vancouver population.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/riots-erupt-in-vancouver-after-canucks-loss-1.993707
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...s-decry-vancouver-hockey-riots/article619487/
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/criminals-anarchists-thugs-behind-post-cup-riot-1.658053
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/...me+Stanley+riot+anarchists/4958411/story.html
That's an ordinary Canadian, the city's Mayor and Police Chief, and a Member of Parliament. Kinda blows that theory out of the water eh?
Joel
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See all the excuses made when white people riot? Are you and I expected to apologize for "our" people rioting? Do Vancouver rioters reflect on "white culture"? Are we expected to stand up and denounce the whites rioting and looting?
That's exactly the point, a few people in ski masks with Molotov cocktails induced tens of thousands of Canucks fans into rioting and looting. Those people get the benefit of the doubt, they're not "real fans", but riots and looting in Ferguson and Baltimore get lumped in with the protests.
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