Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I dunno about every municipality but it's pretty standard equipment now.
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Garner Incident-if you can say "I can't breathe," guess what you can breathe
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Thief
Rogue Theologian
I suspect the examiner saw a bruise and called it.
He probably hadn't seen the video.
ooooops!
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
I suspect you haven't a clue what a medical examiner does.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
I'm going by multiple accounts in the news.
Example:
Pathologist reviews autopsy of man killed in NY police choke hold - Yahoo News
Storm
ThrUU the Looking Glass
Doesn't really matter whether he did or not, if you know what the job entails. Hint: it ain't 'see a bruise and call it.'
Bunyip
pro scapegoat
My sincere apologies to Mr Khan, his family and their affiliates. Should have said Mel Gibson.Mr Khan doesn't like this post.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Perhaps everyone else is silent or dismissive because they recognise that what you percieve to be personal attacks aren't actually so. Personal attacks are against the rules, and I'm confident that, if properly reported, the mods will together review the case in a fair and honest manner and respond accordingly. Disagreeing with you isn't a personal attack. You could argue that having a nasty tone while disagreeing might be personal, but considering that's usually a mutual two way street, you would be subject to the same penalties.
But when other people flare up and take the same tone as you, you regard it as a personal attack. So it's alright for you to be displeased with others when they get heated, but it's not alright for people to be displeased with you when you get heated?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
Hint back at you.....the choke was released and the guy continued speaking.
Crush windpipe and the loose lip won't work.
Hey!...get a friend to forearm your throat for ya!
Be sure to arrange a tapout maneuver first!
If he really goes for it....you won't say you can't breathe ....eleven times.
Jeez, not this again.
Whatever, FH. I'm a mod and have been one for a while, so I'm well aware of what a personal attack is. I don't need you to tell me how to do my volunteer work, son.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Funny, I thought the same thing when I saw your post. Yes, it is tiresome, but you're the one dragging out the silliness, so the ball is in your court to put it to rest.
If there have been any genuine personal attacks occuring, then I implore the mod team to tackle it. I'm confident that they'll handle it properly.
And now, back to something related to the OP, we have one cop's perspective on a particular bad shooting & the larger issues.....
Cop in the Hood: Police kill white people, too
Interesting snippet.....
Cop in the Hood: Police kill white people, too
Interesting snippet.....
What I glean from this is that race plays a more complicated role than the simplistic sloganeering of the J Jacksons & A Sharptons.
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It does. Agreed.
And it's a bigger role than the dismissals by right-wing radio hosts and academic liberal posturings.
The thing is, we NEED to talk about it. When it's said that "it has nothing to do with race", it's unhelpful at best and insulting at worst.
We should all make the conscious decision to not be insulted by the opinions of others. They may be addressed at face value.
Because...?
It's one thing to be personally insulted. I often don't feel insulted, except when it comes to rape apologetics (which we've been through before). I will often times find myself being triggered into various symptoms of PTSD when encountering rape apologetics, with which there are means of coping strategies I employ to get through.
It's another to hold an insulting opinion about others ideas. Such are within bounds of RF. Attack ideas, not people. Yadda yadda.
But it's okay to point out when an idea is condascending and insulting. Doesn't mean the person calling it out is insulted personally, just that the idea itself is being referenced to.
Often times, when a view is called "bigoted", there's a rush to judgement on whether or not saying so is a personal attack. Saying something is racist or sexist or homophobic has also been received as personal attacks by members if the intention is not to attack personally.
I mean, some things I've said around people of color have been called out as racist, and it's a difficult pill to swallow since we tend to see racism only coming from the Klan monsters and not from people like us. We think having our thoughts called racist is a personal attack. I think that points to just how conditioned we are to perceive our worldview as the default view, and that we identify personally with it.