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I just can't believe what this country is coming to, when people can lose their jobs for being honest like that. Its almost scary. It almost feels cult like or communist like where you can't speak your mind. Its sad when you can't even question racism. When you can't even question it, racism can be used as an unchecked tool to bring down anyone who is just telling the truth. Sad.
Free speech mean the government cannot stop you from speaking your mind. Like Trump is trying to do to John Bolton.
Private companies, schools and churches are within their rights to censor speech of employees when they are acting on behalf of that organization. If the chaplain told the congregation that the Bible was fake and the Pope was a fraud, he might expect to get fired too.
So if we are going to worry about the moral standing of the victim, how about examining the moral standing of the killer cop?
Frankly doesnt matter. Cop murdered a restrained suspect that wasnt fighting the restaint. Thats the whole story. Doesnt matter if George was a saint or sinner. This is about the actions of a vicious cop wanting the thrill of a kill.
I wonder about the context. What prompted him to say that Floyd did not live a virtuous life? What does that have to do with anything? Was officer Chauvin thinking "this guy is not virtuous. Therefore I'm going to kneel on his neck until he's dead?"
Every time the cops kill someone, people on social media want to bring up that the guy "was no angel", "had a record", "was a bad man", all of which is irrelevant.
As for the racial angle, I agree with the chaplain: we don't know for a fact that this was racially motivated.
Only because the left hold the victims up to be saints. They are now glorifying career criminals.
What Chauvin did was wrong and he will be punished for it but lets not lose touch with reality and pretend all of the victims of police violence are innocent and virtuous.
Along with police reform we need to reform our youth (all, not just black). We should not be showing them that it is ok to commit crimes, do drugs, resist, abandon your children. The problem with crime, poverty and law enforcement needs to be challenged from both directions if things are going to improve. Law enforcement needs to admit, confront and reform problems within their departments and the public also needs to admit, confront and reform problems within society.
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Holding a gun to a pregnant woman while robbing her in a home invasion robbery is most definitely not virtuous. The chaplain was just telling the truth.
But it seems the Christian concepts of salvation and forgiveness escaped him.
So if we are going to worry about the moral standing of the victim, how about examining the moral standing of the killer cop?
Frankly doesnt matter. Cop murdered a restrained suspect that wasnt fighting the restaint. Thats the whole story. Doesnt matter if George was a saint or sinner. This is about the actions of a vicious cop wanting the thrill of a kill.
That’s another thread. This thread is about a person voicing his opinion and because his opinion does not meet the approval of the Left, he is now fired.
So what proof do you have that the officer acted out of racial animus?
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What proof do you have that he didn't?
what proof do you have that you're not a serial murderer?
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