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originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: Grambler
Have people of colour a statistically higher risk of being jailed away or getting shot by cop or not? Calling for a white genocide is precisely what you'd do after walking a mile in their shoes as well. Cut 'em some slack and get your whining act together?
Do you know what genocide is?
No, I would not call for the total annihilation of a race under any circumstance.
I am sorry you are attempting to legitimize that.
Hyperbole. Thats all it is.
Hyperbole is how smart people really express their point nowadays. I know this because the people who tend to employ that hyperbole often end with telling me how stupid I am.
Nonetheless, what PublicOpinion is saying is correct: the hyperbole is there for a reason. And we'd do better to listen to it, and try to affect change to stop it. Instead of making fun of them, or calling them names.
I've been married for over 20 years, and give the following advice to any young man who is getting married. It applies here as well: "When you think she is nagging you, and you are just about at your sickest of having to hear it, stop and listen to her. She isn't nagging, she's telling you about something that bothers her, and the only way the relationship will work is when you discuss this with her and address the concern." The same here...the professor doesn't really want all white people dead (im sure, anyway). He just is using hyperbole to stress his empassioned plea.
The sad part is that there are people who will take him literally from all viewpoints.
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: PublicOpinion
a reply to: Grambler
Have people of colour a statistically higher risk of being jailed away or getting shot by cop or not? Calling for a white genocide is precisely what you'd do after walking a mile in their shoes as well. Cut 'em some slack and get your whining act together?
Do you know what genocide is?
No, I would not call for the total annihilation of a race under any circumstance.
I am sorry you are attempting to legitimize that.
Hyperbole. Thats all it is.
Hyperbole is how smart people really express their point nowadays. I know this because the people who tend to employ that hyperbole often end with telling me how stupid I am.
Nonetheless, what PublicOpinion is saying is correct: the hyperbole is there for a reason. And we'd do better to listen to it, and try to affect change to stop it. Instead of making fun of them, or calling them names.
I've been married for over 20 years, and give the following advice to any young man who is getting married. It applies here as well: "When you think she is nagging you, and you are just about at your sickest of having to hear it, stop and listen to her. She isn't nagging, she's telling you about something that bothers her, and the only way the relationship will work is when you discuss this with her and address the concern." The same here...the professor doesn't really want all white people dead (im sure, anyway). He just is using hyperbole to stress his empassioned plea.
The sad part is that there are people who will take him literally from all viewpoints.
Very well said. You highlight a problem we have seen all too often when it comes to issues such as these and I would say even applies to groups like BLM.
They have a grievance. They want to air those grievances, but when they do they are shot down by people that dismiss their grievances as unfounded or "entitled".
Perhaps we should be more willing to stop and listen, as you suggested, than outright dismissing their concerns and playing politics with it, as we see often with topics and threads such as these.
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
And also you ignore that CNN and these professors themselves feel the calls for their deaths are serious and life changing.
Those are just words too though, right?
If someone has a grievance and they use it to call for the deaths of an entire race of people, we should condemn it.
Funny on the charlottesville threads you called all of the nazis bad people and condemned them. Why would you do that? They have grievances, and you are shooting them down. You should stop and listen to them instead of calling them evil.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
And also you ignore that CNN and these professors themselves feel the calls for their deaths are serious and life changing.
Those are just words too though, right?
RE: your post right after this one....im not so sure i'd defend Nazis, even if im just using hyperbole to make a point.
Literally defending calls for genocide over your unjustified emotions.
Taking into account that blacks are about 14% of the population in USA and they account for over 50% of the violent crime (and that is mostly black males so you could cut that % even lower), I think black criminals are being treat quite fairly.
originally posted by: Grambler
No I will continue to call out people like these professors or posters on ATS that legitimize call for genocide of any race.
originally posted by: kelbtalfenek
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
I've been digging and digging and trying to digest this material (I still have a lot of links to examine.) All I can say is that I didn't know that the rabbit hole was this deep. I didn't realize the extent of the CIA powerplay throughout the world and how it's tentacles were based in the narcotics trade. The US really is a narco state, utilizing drugs, and guns to provide power and usurp almost every country in which it has dealings. The scope is much broader than I could have imagined. There are thousands of deaths tied up in all of this. People are recruited, groomed, placed into positions of power and then toppled when they are deemed threats.
The real questions are: how much of this can be proven in some sort of legal setting? Who knows about it? How is the narcotics trade being looked at with a blind eye abroad, in fact given a green-light, thumbs up and even financially backed by agencies of the US government? It just seems to me that almost every major conflagration in the last 60 years has involved the CIA, drugs, and/or CIA backed guns running to destabilize every single regime...for the sole purpose of keeping the drugs running. Could this be the reason that the US didn't listen to Ho Chi Minh in Paris in the late 1940's/early 1950s...which gave him the momentum to contact the Russians and become the communist that we were taught to hate/fear? (Meanwhile the US backed the very corrupt southern regime.)
Above all this is a self perpetuating system and someone is getting really wealthy from it, as well as having their way with regimes which are not necessarily favorable to the USA. Are narcotics and arms dealings really the face of diplomacy? If so, our foreign policy is despicable and the system needs to be changed. People need to know about this.
In reading your piece, all I could see was that scene in "Lord of War" or whatever that Nicholas Cage movie is...when he's sitting in an interrogation room with Ethan Hawke and Cage says something to the effect of: "Your boss is going to walk into this room, pat you on the back and tell you to let me go... "
But certainly this information is not easy to digest in terms of the damage it portrays, internally to the US and it's citizens and externally to the world. My head is spinning trying to rewrite the history I was taught and knew to be fact.
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
And also you ignore that CNN and these professors themselves feel the calls for their deaths are serious and life changing.
Those are just words too though, right?
RE: your post right after this one....im not so sure i'd defend Nazis, even if im just using hyperbole to make a point.
What in your mind makes defend calling for the death of all white ok, but calling for all black people not.
Perhaps you need to think on your biases if you think one is understandable and the other is not.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Grambler
Ill also point out that the rhetoric accompanying the Nazi version of what you accuse is indefensible on its own. The rhetoric accompanying the professor, however, is pretty easily defended (for the most part...remember, he's still angry about injustice).
originally posted by: muzzleflash
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
Hyperbole is exactly the type of rhetoric that led to every genocide in history.
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Grambler
Ill also point out that the rhetoric accompanying the Nazi version of what you accuse is indefensible on its own. The rhetoric accompanying the professor, however, is pretty easily defended (for the most part...remember, he's still angry about injustice).
Absurd.
Absolutely disgusting.
No, his rhetoric about killing all white people is not easily defended, even if you think it is hyperbolic.
What makes white people more evil than blacks that makes his rhetoric more defensible?
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
The same here...the professor doesn't really want all white people dead (im sure, anyway). He just is using hyperbole to stress his empassioned plea.
The sad part is that there are people who will take him literally from all viewpoints.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan
And also you ignore that CNN and these professors themselves feel the calls for their deaths are serious and life changing.
Those are just words too though, right?
RE: your post right after this one....im not so sure i'd defend Nazis, even if im just using hyperbole to make a point.
What in your mind makes defend calling for the death of all white ok, but calling for all black people not.
Perhaps you need to think on your biases if you think one is understandable and the other is not.
The Nazi's say what they say because they hate black people.
The professor says what he says because the system provably creates an adverse impact on black people.
Do you not see the difference between the two?