This thread a perfect example of whites living their lucky ass lives and looking down at the poor and weak and getting the superiority bug.
Again you aren't special. You aren't smarter. Your definitely not more aware or enlightened. Your just lucky.
Rather than looking at things and saying hmmm what the FK and why and how to change things you sit behind your keyboards in your safe little white neighborhoods and stroke yourselves
Think of the human condition along with some history of human behavior, and whites as well, and you will not only understand "Baltimore" but maybe think what we can do as humans to prevent situations such as this.
But alas stroking ones insecurities is easier and I expect from observing human behavior that the stroking and stroking each other will continue. Just get your hanky and windex before hand.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Who's justifying Thirty.
You for one. Waving your finger at everyone. Are you serious?
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
I think it is natural (and from what I am seeing in this and many discussions on this board) to try to understand why things happen. We are all just coming from a different place of understanding.
Perhaps this need to loot and destroy is a fuck you to the power structure that leaves certain groups out? When you have little social, political, or economic power then protecting it or trying to preserve it is completely unimportant to the people who are looting. Perhaps they see the police, the businesses, the homes as symbolic of things they don't have, can never have. It doesn't justify it but understanding why people do things might lead to change.
Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
It is sad that the riots are taking away from the conversation that a kid was likely murdered by police. No way you can claim self defense on this one.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
Far from that.
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
Far from that.
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
I know- easier said than done.
Again, you are reading them that way because it is the way you choose to. The same issue has happened in other threads. Seeking to understand is not excusing.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
Far from that.
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
I know- easier said than done.
Again, you are reading them that way because it is the way you choose to. The same issue has happened in other threads. Seeking to understand is not excusing.
If posts are being misread/misinterpreted then some responsibility falls on the author, too. With all due respect, this does read like you are excusing:
It's not hard to understand if you just step outside of your own experience. If you feel like authority has no respect for you, why would you have respect for authority?
Yeah, mother of the year here. All mothers should punch their sons in the face repeatedly. Has a real Jerry Springer quality to it.
I believe she is doing the right thing. Maybe if there were more parents involved in Baltimore there would be less rioting?
More parents beating their children would equal less rioting? Seems counter intuitive to me.
I do not believe punching your child in the face is the right thing to do.
That video is awful.
How about a little more discipline in today's youth and a little bit more respect. She caught her son throwing rocks at police. By the way she smacked him upside the head it was not like she was throwing Mike Tyson knock out punches.
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If we don't want to condone punching a child, fine, but I do hope any parent who found their child throwing rocks at police would do more than just give them a timeout.
Yeah, mother of the year here. All mothers should punch their sons in the face repeatedly. Has a real Jerry Springer quality to it.
I believe she is doing the right thing. Maybe if there were more parents involved in Baltimore there would be less rioting?
More parents beating their children would equal less rioting? Seems counter intuitive to me.
I do not believe punching your child in the face is the right thing to do.
That video is awful.
I also meant maybe it there were more parents involved with their children's life there would be less rioting going on, but maybe that is just my white privilege getting the best of me
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Yeah, mother of the year here. All mothers should punch their sons in the face repeatedly. Has a real Jerry Springer quality to it.
I believe she is doing the right thing. Maybe if there were more parents involved in Baltimore there would be less rioting?
More parents beating their children would equal less rioting? Seems counter intuitive to me.
I do not believe punching your child in the face is the right thing to do.
That video is awful.
I also meant maybe it there were more parents involved with their children's life there would be less rioting going on, but maybe that is just my white privilege getting the best of me
Maybe better parenting would also teach some cops that it isn't okay to murder handcuffed civilians.
The rioting is wrong and they are fucking up what should be a much bigger conversation
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
Far from that.
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
I know- easier said than done.
Again, you are reading them that way because it is the way you choose to. The same issue has happened in other threads. Seeking to understand is not excusing.
If posts are being misread/misinterpreted then some responsibility falls on the author, too. With all due respect, this does read like you are excusing:
It's not hard to understand if you just step outside of your own experience. If you feel like authority has no respect for you, why would you have respect for authority?
Thought my post was pretty clear. May not be comfortable for some but good.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
Far from that.
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
I know- easier said than done.
Again, you are reading them that way because it is the way you choose to. The same issue has happened in other threads. Seeking to understand is not excusing.
If posts are being misread/misinterpreted then some responsibility falls on the author, too. With all due respect, this does read like you are excusing:
It's not hard to understand if you just step outside of your own experience. If you feel like authority has no respect for you, why would you have respect for authority?
Thought my post was pretty clear. May not be comfortable for some but good.
It is sad that the riots are taking away from the conversation that a kid was likely murdered by police. No way you can claim self defense on this one.
You are correct. Yet the criminals who chose to riot made it pretty easy to forget what they were supposed to be out there protesting.
And the best thing to come out of that shit last night was the one mother that cared enough to go out there and discipline her child for breaking the law and embarrassing her. Good for her. Better her slap her kid upside the head a couple of times than him help burn down buildings. I can't believe some of you here talk against that. It wasn't an 8 year old kid. It was a teenager. He deserved way worse than a couple of slaps.
To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
Far from that.
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
I know- easier said than done.
Again, you are reading them that way because it is the way you choose to. The same issue has happened in other threads. Seeking to understand is not excusing.
If posts are being misread/misinterpreted then some responsibility falls on the author, too. With all due respect, this does read like you are excusing:
It's not hard to understand if you just step outside of your own experience. If you feel like authority has no respect for you, why would you have respect for authority?
Again, understanding and excusing are not tje same.
Yeah, mother of the year here. All mothers should punch their sons in the face repeatedly. Has a real Jerry Springer quality to it.
I believe she is doing the right thing. Maybe if there were more parents involved in Baltimore there would be less rioting?
More parents beating their children would equal less rioting? Seems counter intuitive to me.
I do not believe punching your child in the face is the right thing to do.
That video is awful.
I also meant maybe it there were more parents involved with their children's life there would be less rioting going on, but maybe that is just my white privilege getting the best of me
Maybe better parenting would also teach some cops that it isn't okay to murder handcuffed civilians.
The rioting is wrong and they are fucking up what should be a much bigger conversation
Agreed there are rotten apples in every bunch and this is taking away from the bigger picture. However, the family at the time is not frustrated with the investigation of their son Freddie. The city does owe some explanation, but justice is not always instant.
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To make it clear, I have no problem with the subject of the thread. It's the comments within it that are so over the top with outrage that I find interesting.
I find the ones justifying the riot infinitely more interesting.
Justifying and empathizing are completely different things.
I understand that.
Let's not be ultra selective with whom we choose to 'empathize' with then. We can explain every behavior, but doing so doesn't make the behavior any less deplorable when the behavior is deplorable. For the people lashing out at others outraged over rioting in Baltimore, be consistent: also lash out at people who express outrage for, say, the next pedophile to creep on to the MT- he was abused as a child.
I don't see people who loot and burn property on the same plain as child rapists.
No. The offence of rioting is definitely more palatable.
Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
No one is getting behind anybody. You are way out on a limb thirty, but carry on.
Far from that.
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
I know- easier said than done.
Again, you are reading them that way because it is the way you choose to. The same issue has happened in other threads. Seeking to understand is not excusing.
If posts are being misread/misinterpreted then some responsibility falls on the author, too. With all due respect, this does read like you are excusing:
It's not hard to understand if you just step outside of your own experience. If you feel like authority has no respect for you, why would you have respect for authority?
Again, understanding and excusing are not tje same.
Yes and no. In the case of the police I can see what you are saying, but what authority did the liquor store or the shopping mall or the CVS have over these rioters?
It is sad that the riots are taking away from the conversation that a kid was likely murdered by police. No way you can claim self defense on this one.
You are correct. Yet the criminals who chose to riot made it pretty easy to forget what they were supposed to be out there protesting.
And the best thing to come out of that shit last night was the one mother that cared enough to go out there and discipline her child for breaking the law and embarrassing her. Good for her. Better her slap her kid upside the head a couple of times than him help burn down buildings. I can't believe some of you here talk against that. It wasn't an 8 year old kid. It was a teenager. He deserved way worse than a couple of slaps.
"Two wrongs don't make a right" We were all taught that when we were young. Whatever ground was gained in the peaceful protests was washed away with the human cockroach behavior of some of the lowlife peices of shit that chose to Steal,Burn,and destroy the livelihoodsand dreams of there neighbors.These are criminals,punks and thugs and there is no excuse at all for there behavior.Props to those with the balls to try and protect these dwellings and businesses.
Slashing fire hoses,are you fucking kidding me!
I see the excuse crowd is in full effect again.Justifying the actions of criminals.Typical. The actions of the police are being investigated.If wrong doing was done then I expect those responsible to pay for their actions as well.To the full extent of the law and if it was a hate crime,throw the book at the dirty fuckers. It's almost comical that the drugstore and the mall were the two new places built in that area to provide an upswing in the economy and living conditions and services withinn that depressed area.So what do the idiots do Burn em and rob em.Classy,classy stuff.
Btw- if more parents got on their delinquent kids like this lady did,maybe some of the school age rock chucking punks would have been trying to help life and property and not trying to injure the officers.
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Its definitely easier to get behind a bunch of rioters than it is a pedophile. You gotta draw the line somewhere.
I do not believe punching your child in the face is the right thing to do.
That video is awful.
Perhaps this need to loot and destroy is a fuck you to the power structure that leaves certain groups out? When you have little social, political, or economic power then protecting it or trying to preserve it is completely unimportant to the people who are looting. Perhaps they see the police, the businesses, the homes as symbolic of things they don't have, can never have. It doesn't justify it but understanding why people do things might lead to change.
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
I AM MINE
I am reading several- including some from you- posts that, whether you care to admit it or not, seek to rationalize poor behavior (and admonish others in the process).
I come from the mindset where there is no justification for poor behavior. Of course I can understand why some people or communities might act as they do, but that still doesn't excuse brutal behaviour. Find another way.
I know- easier said than done.
Seeking to understand is not excusing.
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
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"...I changed by not changing at all..."
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The rioting is wrong and they are fucking up what should be a much bigger conversation
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-baltimore-riots-what-we-know-20150428-story.html
"...I changed by not changing at all..."
And the best thing to come out of that shit last night was the one mother that cared enough to go out there and discipline her child for breaking the law and embarrassing her. Good for her. Better her slap her kid upside the head a couple of times than him help burn down buildings. I can't believe some of you here talk against that. It wasn't an 8 year old kid. It was a teenager. He deserved way worse than a couple of slaps.
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"...I changed by not changing at all..."
We were all taught that when we were young.
Whatever ground was gained in the peaceful protests was washed away with the human cockroach behavior of some of the lowlife peices of shit that chose to Steal,Burn,and destroy the livelihoodsand dreams of there neighbors.These are criminals,punks and thugs and there is no excuse at all for there behavior.Props to those with the balls to try and protect these dwellings and businesses.
Slashing fire hoses,are you fucking kidding me!
I see the excuse crowd is in full effect again.Justifying the actions of criminals.Typical.
The actions of the police are being investigated.If wrong doing was done then I expect those responsible to pay for their actions as well.To the full extent of the law and if it was a hate crime,throw the book at the dirty fuckers.
It's almost comical that the drugstore and the mall were the two new places built in that area to provide an upswing in the economy and living conditions and services withinn that depressed area.So what do the idiots do Burn em and rob em.Classy,classy stuff.
https://www.facebook.com/officialraylewis/videos/10153320592515701/?fref=nf
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