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Old 12-21-2014, 06:21 PM
 
Location: NWA/SWMO
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I'm just disappointed that Godwin's law hasn't been demonstrated yet.
Technically, isn't referencing Godwin's law in a way sortof demonstrating it, maybe, if you twist it a bit?
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Old 12-21-2014, 06:25 PM
 
Location: Vallejo
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Technically, isn't referencing Godwin's law in a way sortof demonstrating it, maybe, if you twist it a bit?
It might be. Did I just lose? Maybe we'll be able <strike>beat a dead horse</strike> move on now.
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Old 12-21-2014, 06:27 PM
 
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Marilyn...get some sleep. Maybe you will wake up less confused.
She won't.
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Old 12-21-2014, 06:31 PM
 
Location: state of enlightenment
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Typical liberal a reaction; of course protests to them includes looting and arson to get your point across.
Typical right wing cop apologist whitewashes every murder by cop, every brutalization, every corruption, every abuse of our civil liberties but screams to high heaven when a cop is killed. Murder is a crime whether it's by a cop or of a cop.
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Old 12-21-2014, 06:37 PM
 
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While that is sad, the NYPD has no one to blame for themselves for this. If they actually got a handle on their power hungry abusive cops and actively punished cops that did wrong giving them VERY harsh sentences, say 25 years at least there wouldn't be so many cop haters. Maybe now the NYPD will learn something.
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Old 12-21-2014, 06:37 PM
 
Location: state of enlightenment
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So do you think Rice was shot because he was Black? As in, if he were White, you think he would not have been shot?
Probably. The disproportionate incarceration of blacks & hispanics for pot is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Old 12-21-2014, 06:41 PM
 
Location: NWA/SWMO
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Probably. The disproportionate incarceration of blacks & hispanics for pot is just the tip of the iceberg.
How strongly do you feel on that "probably"? Also, do you happen to be White yourself? Just curious.
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Old 12-21-2014, 06:55 PM
 
Location: Vallejo
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How strongly do you feel on that "probably"? Also, do you happen to be White yourself? Just curious.
That's the old view.

More recent studies using the simulations similar to what police are trained on actually show the opposite. Cops are less trigger happy with black suspects than they are with white ones.

https://news.wsu.edu/2014/09/02/dead...s/#.VJd50F4D4A

If you're looking for some white people to try out an experiment to see how quickly white guys get shot for waving a gun around at a park and then reaching for it when officers respond, you can go ahead and count me out.
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Old 12-21-2014, 07:07 PM
 
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That's the old view.

More recent studies using the simulations similar to what police are trained on actually show the opposite. Cops are less trigger happy with black suspects than they are with white ones.

https://news.wsu.edu/2014/09/02/dead...s/#.VJd50F4D4A

If you're looking for some white people to try out an experiment to see how quickly white guys get shot for waving a gun around at a park and then reaching for it when officers respond, you can go ahead and count me out.
Don't give them facts...they want emotions!

Besides, I'm still fishing for that White person who thinks that Tamir was shot because he was Black. I was going to invite them to go and point an all black Airsoft pistol around a park and then at the responding officer. Then they can come back and tell us how they didn't get shot and thus support their claim
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Old 12-21-2014, 07:17 PM
 
Location: Vallejo
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Don't give them facts...they want emotions!

Besides, I'm still fishing for that White person who thinks that Tamir was shot because he was Black. I was going to invite them to go and point an all black Airsoft pistol around a park and then at the responding officer. Then they can come back and tell us how they didn't get shot and thus support their claim
That's why I said if you're looking for white participants for a real life study, count me out.
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