It is?
Young people of all races will call each other nigga these days.
Just my perception. Could be wrong.
How young are you talking? It is my perception that at least people around my age canāt get away with it (low 30s). Maybe high schoolers can get away with it.
Using racist language against a historically oppressed and disenfranchised people signals your desire to continue that oppression (away from equality). Using racist language against the historic oppressor signals your desire to knock the oppressor down a peg or two (towards equality). As we move closer to racial equality racist language towards white folks becomes less culturally acceptable as we are further removed from such distorted divisions of power.
We donāt live in a vacuum. Ignoring well known context is ignorant.
Sure, so it is racist (. Iām fine calling both racist. That is consistent.
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Sure, if you want to use the literal definition instead of the common, culturally accepted meaning.
Are you saying you think blacks should be able to say derogatory stuff about whites without social consequences, but the reverse shouldnāt be socially acceptable? Really not sure what you mean here.
What is the accepted definition. I always thought racism was treating someone worse because of race.
Itās more socially acceptable to insult the oppressor, or positions of power. As the power/race gap closes it becomes less acceptable.
Iād agree with your definition, but itās application is nearly always in the context of being racist against a historically oppressed group. Affirmative action, etc are racist policiesā¦ But I would hesitate to use that word as racism is typically understood to be malicious.
And honestly, when is the last time you heard cracker or honkey used by someone other than a black comedian?
I doubt anyone who uses that language is thinking that deeply about it. In my experience, someoneās use of a racial slur is directly related to whether or not the person insulted looks like heāll cave your skull in.
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That is clear to me. I still donāt like the inconsistency, and think both are probably not the right thing to do.
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Me neither.
Itās also socially acceptable to call people racists for no reason. These are all things people need to begin re-thinking.
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āNo reason,ā or because they demonstrated their racism by not voting for Obama, then voting FOR Trump? Seems a justifiable call, given the proof provided.
Haha, a racist gets real polite when that happens. Lol.
But yeah, I doubt theyāre thinking very deeply either. Most racists lack that ability.
When you say āracistā, do you mean a white people?
DA says this was a good shooting. What say you?
Heās trying to run them down. Things like that get you killed. This should be a teaching moment.
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Given todayās climate, he wouldnāt have come to that decision if he wasnāt 100% sure.
Hereās whatās telling about people: if I or someone in my family were killed by the cops while engaged in felonious activity, my family wouldnāt cry about it or complain, we would say good riddance, you were an embarrassment and a piece of garbage. Even if the shooting itself were not justified, we would thank the cops for doing us a favor. I know someone who went through this type of situation and she didnāt even bother to claim her sonās body.
When you look at who people hold accountable for actions and responses, it tells you what they think about the people they donāt hold accountable.
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Why would it be considered anything else? Serious question. Notice that the shooting didnāt start until the driver was driving back towards officers.
This one is tough for me. I kinda think all the video I have seen has not been very great. I thought these body cams would have more than a flip phone camera in them for how much they cost?
I know that the district attorney said he struck two officers with the car. I didnāt really see that. Perhaps he brushed them? To me it looks like he was trying not to hit them? Is evading the police enough to warrant shooting? If he does hit them, does intent matter? Does the way he hit them matter? IDK on this one.
I donāt think a shooting should be justified if the officer can simply and easily move out of harmās way. Their lives should be in danger and deadly force should be the only option. Moving out of the way would have been an option here. When officers open fire the natural reaction is to duck and floor it, everytime. It just makes the danger worse. And then the suspect crashes somewhere as they bleed out further endangering the public.
The other disconcerting thing is how many shots were fired after no officers were in danger anymore. A whole bunch of shots were fired at the side and rear of that fleeing vehicle.
Iāve seen a number of these shootings where a person in a car is stopped and trying to drive away and the cop/s stand infront trying to block them and then open fire, when the driver tries to get around them. Legally, itās justified, but I think the law should be changed. Lethal force should be a last resort, not a tactic to get a suspect to stop fleeing.