As a mandated reporter, which is something that pisses me the fuck off, I have seen social workers leave so many children and elderly disabled people in fucking nightmares that I don’t see how a person with a heart and a conscious could survive in that job for more than a few months.
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That’s pretty much why they quit. The emotional toll was too much.
Follow up news story.
And they still refer to these people as protestors. They are filth. The guy who kicked the man has been outed. He even outed himself. He has a criminal record that includes domestic violence. I don’t see how a media that is so, I don’t know, addicted to being anti-Trump continues to portray these criminals as protestors.
I know some will say that it is a handful of people but that means nothing. They are engaged in criminal activity, violent, potentially deadly criminal activity. This has nothing to do with racism or justice. I can walk down the middle of the street protesting child molesters. Who is going to say I’m wrong to be against child molesting? But if I start setting fires or assaulting people, will I be allowed to continue simply because my cause is a just one? Will the media ignore my violence and just describe me as a (mostly) peaceful anti-child molesting protestor? I don’t think it’s such a hard thing to condemn the violence and call out the “protests” for being counterproductive and pointless with regard to racism and police brutality. CNN doesn’t see it that way however. The politicians don’t see it that way either.
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I don’t really get that either. It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. It shouldn’t invalidate the peaceful protesters or their cause by condemning the rioters and bad actors within those groups.
Does CNN admit there are rioters and violent bad actors assaulting police? No. Does Fox admit the very large majority of protestors are peaceful? No. They each have a narrative, and to admit even a little bit of “the other side’s” narrative is true, is to admit total defeat apparently. It’s sad.
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With regard to Portland, I don’t think most are peaceful at this point. Also, silence is complicity so if peaceful protestors don’t step up when they see violence they are condoning it. Just like in Texas; when they saw that dope (RIP) with an AK, they should have told him to leave. I don’t think we would need to have great imaginations to assume what MLK would have said about bringing guns to civil rights’ marches.
Also, FOX did condemn the protestors in Michigan for openly displaying weapons.
But what about Charlottesville? And Trump got blamed for failing to condemn the extremists, why should this be different?
You do understand that Charlottesville was a white supremacists rally, right? It wasn’t a few white supremacists mixed into a political rally of good people… It was a rally for white supremacists and neo-nazis organized by white supremacists and neonazis.
Also, that’s the point of what I said. CNN should be calling out the bad actors and rioters. Them calling out the bad apples shouldn’t be taken as an invalidation of the rest of the good apples.
Sounds a bit hypocritical considering:
White supremacists are bad but antifa and BLM are good as long as they remain mostly peaceful? What about the peaceful white supremacists that aren’t bothering anyone? I don’t remember hearing about them rioting for weeks on end, destroying whole sections of cities, attacking police and the feds. Not that I support white supremacists, but they seem fairly benign compared to these people.
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It seems you can’t (or won’t) discern between the millions of folks who peacefully support the blm movement along with the hundreds of thousands who peacefully marched in support of systematic change for racial equality vs the relative few rioters, who should be condemned. Similarly, you can’t or wont discern between BLM and folks who support the blm movement. You’re intent on telling them what they believe instead of listening to what they believe.
It’s pretty fucked up you are saying white supremacists are fairly benign compared to a peaceful protestor in an organized March for racial equality just because they support the blm movement. But, that is the twisted logic you are using. And it’s honestly a waste of time to engage in discussion with.
It seems you can’t (or won’t) discern between the millions of folks who peacefully support the KKK movement along with the hundreds of thousands who peacefully marched in support of not being replaced by Jews vs the relative few rioters, who should be condemned.
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The BLM movement is responsible for the riots, looting, attacks on various people, and more than a few deaths.
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I think anyone with an ounce of fucking Intelligence would find this post offensive.
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Oh good, you’re not offended at all.
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You get what you pay for. Social workers are poorly trained, typically under educated and poorly paid.
We could have non-police deal with some minor issues that police really have no business dealing with in the first place, but if you want good community relations and better policing, you need better, frequently reinforced training. This requires more funding, not less.
I just took your words and changed two parts, in case you didn’t notice. Of course this isn’t “politically correct”, but they are two sides of the same coin. Remember:
But you don’t actually believe that, do you?
Your posts are equally offensive at least Chris’s was sarcastic, you actually mean what you say… You offer cover for the most vile, violent, hateful, down right murderous acts and you have the nerve to “be offended”?
Tell you what, we’ll go to sensitivity training if you go to reality training.
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30 confirmed deaths… Just to be clear. Could be 31 soon if the guy in Portland does not make it.
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But one person died at Charlottesville and those people are the embodiment of evil, anyone who opposes them must be good.
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Jesus Christ