(05-14-2020, 10:07 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(05-13-2020, 05:39 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: No you can't.  Bigotry is not allowed.  It's neither clever nor funny and it diminishes any "contribution" that your remarks might add to the discussion.  It has already been pointed out to you publicly in this very thread that your "clever to you" remarks does not add to the discussion.  I have also received PMs regarding this.

Disagree with somebody?  Fine.  Have a differing opinion?  Fine.  Insult perhaps a segment of our users with your bigoted/prejudiced stereotype?  Not fine.  Consider this a public soft warning that goes not only to you, but perhaps others.  

In this specific discussion I have had disagreements with others (Gabe, flasportsgod, etc.) and we have argued our points of view without degrading a certain segment of people.  Let's try to keep the conversation as such.

That's all I am going to say about it publicly.

I know when it's worth the effort, and I know when it's not. Those of you who want to go on finding ways that maybe the killers somehow did nothing criminal, despite video of them doing something extremely criminal, cool. Keep on hiding behind your "show me evidence" shtick when the evidence is all right there.

And while you're at it, those of you who might have voiced the opinion that my referring to people totally unrelated to you as "hicks" is personally offensive to you, why is it that using that word is somehow awful when I'm sure some of you are among the same crowd that thinks it's ridiculous for Native Americans to want an actual racial slur taken off of the Washington football team?

But that's neither here nor there. Ahmaud Arbery was murdered by two fine, upstanding citizens who saw a black man running down the street with, as far as their 911 calls indicated, no evidence of anything more than him being a black man running down the street, maybe after committing a misdemeanor depending on what you consider reasonable suspicion to be, but that's irrelevant anyway because Georgia law requires a felony and B&E isn't one. If it's a white man running down the street under the same circumstances, do the fine, upstanding citizens who would go on to barricade the road with shotguns even notice? And if they notice, do they care?

Oh, wait, of course they do. The white guy would have been wearing basketball shoes.

This is low.  I dont know if you're lying or if your just being willfully ignorant.  U know why Travs Mcmichael only articulated the physical description?  Because he was cut off in a live pursuit.  He starts yelling @ Aubrey.  

The "jogger narrative" was brilliant.  It framed the debate in the minds of some around racial profiling that didnt happen vs. Interpreting the relevant statutes on the books.  

Oh and by the way.  Some 90% of native americans dont care about the name.  But thank you oh white savior for blessing those of us too stupid to advocate for ourselves with your kind concerns...

#realracism

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