Everyone is so offended.

[Triumph Man]

XM5ER said:

This was the real racist cotton story

https://www.vibe.com/2017/09/lipscomb-university-c...

"So I attend Lipscomb university and as most of you know that is a predominately white school. Tonight AFRICAN AMERICAN students were invited to have dinner with the president of the school. As we arrived to the president's home and proceeded to go in we seen cotton as the center pieces. We also stood and ate dinner, there were no seats to sit in and it felt very uncomfortable. We were very offended, and also the meals that were provided resembled many "black meals" they had mac n cheese, collard greens, corn bread etc. The night before Latinos also had dinner at his house and they had tacos. They also DIDN'T have the center piece that we HAD tonight. A couple of minutes went by, the president was coming around and asking for our names and what our major was. He finally got to our table and my friend @kay_cyann asked why there was cotton on the table as the center piece. His response was that he didn't know, he seen it before we did, he kind of thought it was " fallish", THEN he said " it ISNT INHERENTLY BAD IF WERE ALL WEARING IT " then walked off. "

Ungrateful sts.

Now wait just a cotton pickin' minute!

[Goaty Bill 2]

Rude-boy said:

See if it were me I would be looking at how we could deal with those who cause issues like this - those that see offence where no reasonable person would. To me they are as distasteful and damaging as racists and the like.

I mention this as (and please hold with me) over the last 12 months or so i have come to find more and more that I feel a degree of offence at the slogan "Black Lives Matter". Not because I don't think that they do (obviously) but because the more i see it the more i feel that it is actually increasing any racial tension rather than providing a counter to it. Every time i see it I mentally go "All lives matter regardless of colour you racist pricks".

I mention this as it is something that i have discussed with a number of people (yes some of them with extra added melanin) and everyone has the same thoughts - why does colour even come into it - All lives matter, regardless of colour, and to deal with a racial issue by creating a Black Vs White mentality only serves to deepen divides.

Referring to the italicised section; why would anyone believe that anything other than the result they are seemingly achieving, i.e. increasing cultural and racial divides, is other than the result that was desired?

If you can't determine what someone is doing, or their reasons, observe the outcome and infer the motivation.

[ChemicalChaos]

Sooo, remember how BLM demanded police body cams after a series of high profile shootings of black suspects?
Apparently now they're undemanding them because they apparently make police reports more accurate, according to this quote:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/23740/remember-when-...

The cynic in me suggests that social justice warriors actually want rid of cameras because they are proving the police right too much (ie, suspect was not a lovable little angel, and was actually trying to harm officers when shot)

[Henners]

Surprise surprise.

[dudleybloke]

[Tony Starks]

Boydie88 said:

Someone better not tell them that NZs basketball team is called the 'Tall Blacks'.

Or our football team

[craig-rog]

Or the badminton team

[paranoid airbag]

Colonial said:

People get offended so easily nowadays.

bks.

People always got offended easily.

Once, however, the vast majority of people could do nothing about it, with a lucky few able to do whatever they wanted. Now, anyone can express offence, and it's up to you to decide whose offence is justified.

Yes, this requires you to exercise judgement. It is nonetheless an improvement.

[WinstonWolf]

paranoid airbag said:

Colonial said:

People get offended so easily nowadays.

bks.

People always got offended easily.

Once, however, the vast majority of people could do nothing about it, with a lucky few able to do whatever they wanted. Now, anyone can express offence, and it's up to you to decide whose offence is justified.

Yes, this requires you to exercise judgement. It is nonetheless an improvement.

bks, everyone is too precious these days. What happens if someone is offended? The square root of fk all.

Boo fking hoo

[smn159]

WinstonWolf said:

paranoid airbag said:

Colonial said:

People get offended so easily nowadays.

bks.

People always got offended easily.

Once, however, the vast majority of people could do nothing about it, with a lucky few able to do whatever they wanted. Now, anyone can express offence, and it's up to you to decide whose offence is justified.

Yes, this requires you to exercise judgement. It is nonetheless an improvement.

bks, everyone is too precious these days. What happens if someone is offended? The square root of fk all.

Boo fking hoo

bks.

People aren't any more offended than they ever were, it's just that they now have a platform to whinge to the world about it.

The same platform that allows those who wish it was still 1950 to whinge about people being "offended"

[hairyben]

ChemicalChaos said:

Sooo, remember how BLM demanded police body cams after a series of high profile shootings of black suspects?
Apparently now they're undemanding them because they apparently make police reports more accurate, according to this quote:

http://www.dailywire.com/news/23740/remember-when-...

The cynic in me suggests that social justice warriors actually want rid of cameras because they are proving the police right too much (ie, suspect was not a lovable little angel, and was actually trying to harm officers when shot)

point of accuracy - Is it BLM who are un-demanding them or others?

Of course, officers with access to video records are going to have more reliable statements - but whats actually wrong with being able to give a more truthful account, surely thats what "social justice" wants? Maybe police with video cameras are getting higher conviction rates - but maybe they're doing their own job better, conscious of the cameras, and/or dropping cases before court where video doesn't corroborate?

I can't see this as anything other than people wanting to attack/criticise the police "just because", rather than having a legitimate axe to grind.

[ChemicalChaos]

Densely Washington has amazingly stuck his neck out and said that disproportionate black criminality is not entirely the fault of the system, it's also the fault of many black men coming from broken homes with no discipline.
(No link i'm afraid, the story popped up as a sponsored link and it refreshed before I could copy it)
How long till someone censures him for daring to break the left wing groupthink? I suspect we are suddenly about to find out from left leaning media that Densely assaults women, kickss a puppies, uses lead paint and doesn't separate his recyclables....

[anonymous-user]

ChemicalChaos said:

Densely Washington has amazingly stuck his neck out and said that disproportionate black criminality is not entirely the fault of the system, it's also the fault of many black men coming from broken homes with no discipline.
(No link i'm afraid, the story popped up as a sponsored link and it refreshed before I could copy it)
How long till someone censures him for daring to break the left wing groupthink? I suspect we are suddenly about to find out from left leaning media that Densely assaults women, kickss a puppies, uses lead paint and doesn't separate his recyclables....

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/11/27/denzel-washington-speaks-out-dont-blame-the-system-for-black-incarceration-it-starts-at-home

This it ?

[anonymous-user]

He has valid points, all evidence points to black children born into broken homes ending up in jail. This is the system, poverty is the system combined with hundreds of years of black rascism and subjugation.

[Goaty Bill 2]

He is in good company in that case.

For those that don't know them, Larry Elder and Thomas Sowell make a similar argument.
Both Elder and Sowell are black African Americans of substantial intellect and well worth listening to on a number of topics.

The problem is not by any means limited to the African American community.

Good luck to Mr. Washington.

[Colonial]

The Spruce goose said:

He has valid points, all evidence points to black children born into broken homes ending up in jail. This is the system, poverty is the system combined with hundreds of years of black rascism and subjugation.

Exactly. This is the end result of 300 years of history.

[Willy Nilly]

ChemicalChaos said:

Densely Washington has amazingly stuck his neck out and said that disproportionate black criminality is not entirely the fault of the system, it's also the fault of many black men coming from broken homes with no discipline.
(No link i'm afraid, the story popped up as a sponsored link and it refreshed before I could copy it)
How long till someone censures him for daring to break the left wing groupthink? I suspect we are suddenly about to find out from left leaning media that Densely assaults women, kickss a puppies, uses lead paint and doesn't separate his recyclables....

My girlfriend works in IT for a finance company in London and earns a few quid. One of her colleagues is black, does a slightly different job, but also earns a few quid. He as a brother that by all accounts is a lazy st bag who is constantly in trouble with the police and blames it on the colour of his skin, when it is in fact because he is a lazy st bag. He even had to go to court because his st bag brother gave the police his name when he was stopped for being a st bag, which meant he had to take a day off work to explain to the court that it couldn't have been him because he was at work and to go and have a word with his brother instead.

We have new people turn up at our running club all of the time. One of which is an enormous back man. In the space of a few months he's gone from not knowing anyone, to being part of the furniture, precisely because he's very outgoing and a really nice bloke. He said it's easy being the only black person (he's not) because you stand out and people notice you. I read recently on his FB page that his son studied maths at university and now works for PWC in London. So he put some effort in and got a decent job. If he's like his dad he will have loads of mates too.

[Mr2Mike]

The Spruce goose said:

He has valid points, all evidence points to black children born into broken homes ending up in jail. This is the system, poverty is the system combined with hundreds of years of black rascism and subjugation.

How would you spin this to find the blame when white kids from broken homes end up in jail?

[Colonial]

Mr2Mike said:

How would you spin this to find the blame when white kids from broken homes end up in jail?

For the same socio-economic reasons.

But, because of generations of inequity and poor access to education in particular in the US the situation is generally worse in predominantly black neighbourhoods.

Saying "you can go to white schools now" in the 1960s doesn't magically remove the preceding years of discrimination. The flow on effects are still there.

[anonymous-user]

Mr2Mike said:

How would you spin this to find the blame when white kids from broken homes end up in jail?

There's no spin, broken homes, fatherless families, the children are more likely end up in jail, no matter the colour.
The key point is black people have a higher percentage of fatherless families.