THE POLICE PROBLEM

I remember Rush Limbaugh saying, in his book, that the video played on the news was looped...

Even if that was true (I don't know if it is), the cops were still hitting a guy who was already on the ground, with batons...

It would have been swept under the rug if someone hadn't videotaped it.

I grew up with a (very racist) dad who claimed the video cut out "the part where Rodney was attacking the officers and they couldn't get him under control".

I also remember upon seeing American History X where the main guy in a flashback repeated the same lie my dad did damn near verbatim.

America has always been racist and the racists have always used the same unoriginal playbook time and time again.

I worked with guys in the 90s who would have flat out racist conversations in the break room

I work with people today who have flat out racist conversations in the break room -- and I'm a fucking school bus driver in a fucking very liberal school district (Harris signs outnumbered trump signs by about 30:1 last year). They just use the word "native" instead of a worse n-word, although I had one coworker who used the worse n-word repeatedly. Another guy uses the g-word whenever somebody mentions that they like Chinese food. I enjoy watching his head melt when I say I'm going to get Korean or Ethiopian food. I almost got him to try Liberian food until he found out where Liberia is lol.

On the plus side, these are all older people in their 60s or 70s. The kids themselves are far more egalitarian. I also grew up in the '80s and although us kids were not really overtly racist, you still had kids segregating themselves racially as far as social groupings were concerned. Today I see lots of groups of mixed kids.

I'd generally agree, but say that for folks who still feel a need to get their racism bone exercised they still do. racism is a lot quieter now. on an uptick, but still orders of magnitude better than the 80s and 90s, which had to have been orders of magnitude better than the 60s and 70s which I didn't experience. But there weren't folks getting hosed down by the fire department just for the gall of attending integrated schools in my decades growing up. We had apartheid bullshit.

Or just public school in the south.

Redlining.

Did they though? 1860s was slavery, and there was a huge war. Bloodiest war still to this day in American history. With the end result being that slavery ended.

Now, you can say racism didn't end after that, and you'd be right. Racism never ended to this day. But on the scale of atrocities, racism, then slavery, then mass extermination camps.

So, if the extermination camps are farther down the line than slavery, and America DID NOT get away with slavery, then your logic does not hold up.

I'm not defending any of what happened. I'm just saying if Hitler looked at an already failed policy, then he couldn't possibly use it as justification with what he did.

A far better line of logic is saying he used Americas killing of Native Americans as the blueprint for his camps. Which he absolutely did, and which America absolutely did get away with. Still to this day Native American population numbers just might be the lowest of all the races, simply because of how very very close to total extermination they came 200 years ago.

If we just go back to when all the cars were lead fueled boats and one hard working man* could support a whole household by working a fairly paid job…then it’ll all be great again

*terms conditional upon skin color and ethnicity of surname of said man. Anyone black queer or other need not apply

GREAT!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_LASD_deputy_gangs

At least 18 separate gangs in the sheriffs alone. Just list the ones who aren’t and you’ll be done wayyyy faster

There is basically no way to determine your nationality from this comment and I hate that.