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Old 09-07-2020, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by FollowMe View Post
Got it, unarmed people being killed by an authority group is totally cool, but people speaking out about it is just too much.

Sorry snowflake, are you triggered? Need your safe space?

Yes white people get murdered. Yes black people get murdered. One of those happens to be disproportionately committed by persons of any color standing behind a badge. I’ll let you guess which one it is.

Black Lives Matter.

Regardless of what you think.
out of curiosity, do you happen to have the stat on how many unarmed Black/Brown people were killed by police in 2019?
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Old 09-07-2020, 07:05 AM
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Damnit, can we please keep all of the political BS( and make no mistake, that’s what all of this is) out of our companies and cockpits? The airlines need to ban any political/social justice pins. Including Trump, Biden, Black Lives Matter, Blue Lives Matter, all of it.

A pressurized tube is no place to have this $h!t going on. It’s irresponsible.
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Old 09-07-2020, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by FollowMe View Post
Got it, unarmed people being killed by an authority group is totally cool, but people speaking out about it is just too much.

Sorry snowflake, are you triggered? Need your safe space?

Yes white people get murdered. Yes black people get murdered. One of those happens to be disproportionately committed by persons of any color standing behind a badge. I’ll let you guess which one it is.

Black Lives Matter.

Regardless of what you think.
F*CK Thugs Lives Matter ...fixed it for ya


Quit trying to act like hoodlums, commit crimes and then just blame everything on the police and white people, then I’ll have more respect for you
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Old 09-07-2020, 08:26 AM
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Look at the data behind the rhetoric. Perhaps read some of what data driven authors such as Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, and others have to say. One of the biggest factors contributing to poverty, criminal activity, and involvement with the law is broken homes, and the data will show that the black community by far leads that demographic. Both liberal and conservative think tanks agree on this. President Obama said the same thing in a speech. The data will show that one group of people commit a disproportionate amount of crime. It will show that that same group is also more likely to resist arrest when confronted with law enforcement. It will also show that more white people are shot by the police than black. Another study showed that police are far more reluctant to use force against a black criminal than a white one because they are afraid of potential backlash. The narrative that police are out hunting black people is completely false. Just like in any other line of work, there are bad apples, but to paint all police with a broad brush is wrong. Larry Elder summed it up pretty well. He said that for people to avoid violent confrontations with the law, all they need to do is stay in school, don’t engage in criminal activity, and if confronted by an authority figure, cooperate. If you choose to drop out of school, get involved in crime, and physically attack the police when confronted, your lifespan will most likely be short, regardless of race.

All life is sacred
Regardless of what you think.
Give it up. Daniel Patrick Moynihan tried to explain that to them in 1964. They pretty much kicked him out of the Dem party when he did.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/jason-l...ars-1423613625

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...dition/404632/

https://www.educationnext.org/moynih...parent-family/
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Old 09-07-2020, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by FollowMe View Post
Got it, unarmed people being killed by an authority group is totally cool, but people speaking out about it is just too much.

Sorry snowflake, are you triggered? Need your safe space?

Yes white people get murdered. Yes black people get murdered. One of those happens to be disproportionately committed by persons of any color standing behind a badge. I’ll let you guess which one it is.

Black Lives Matter.

Regardless of what you think.
you lost me here, black people are overwhelmingly killed by each other, not by police. Only people on the fringes think black lives don’t matter. The problem with the phrase is its relation to the blm group, which is controversial at best. The phrase itself is semantically loaded, purposefully done so to illicit an emotional response.
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Old 09-07-2020, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by FollowMe View Post
Got it, unarmed people being killed by an authority group is totally cool, but people speaking out about it is just too much.

Sorry snowflake, are you triggered? Need your safe space?

Yes white people get murdered. Yes black people get murdered. One of those happens to be disproportionately committed by persons of any color standing behind a badge. I’ll let you guess which one it is.

Black Lives Matter.

Regardless of what you think.
Is this the group you’re supporting?

https://www.facebook.com/9324547/pos...uHI3DMUO4wcig0
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Old 09-07-2020, 09:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Al Czervik View Post
Is this the group you’re supporting?

https://www.facebook.com/9324547/pos...uHI3DMUO4wcig0
Dang, and I thought my video was bad.
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Old 09-07-2020, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Hedley View Post
Look at the data behind the rhetoric. Perhaps read some of what data driven authors such as Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, and others have to say. One of the biggest factors contributing to poverty, criminal activity, and involvement with the law is broken homes, and the data will show that the black community by far leads that demographic. Both liberal and conservative think tanks agree on this. President Obama said the same thing in a speech. The data will show that one group of people commit a disproportionate amount of crime. It will show that that same group is also more likely to resist arrest when confronted with law enforcement. It will also show that more white people are shot by the police than black. Another study showed that police are far more reluctant to use force against a black criminal than a white one because they are afraid of potential backlash. The narrative that police are out hunting black people is completely false. Just like in any other line of work, there are bad apples, but to paint all police with a broad brush is wrong. Larry Elder summed it up pretty well. He said that for people to avoid violent confrontations with the law, all they need to do is stay in school, don’t engage in criminal activity, and if confronted by an authority figure, cooperate. If you choose to drop out of school, get involved in crime, and physically attack the police when confronted, your lifespan will most likely be short, regardless of race.

All life is sacred
Regardless of what you think.

Ask yourself the reason behind those stats. There's a correct answer and there's a racist answer. Yes, it is a dichotomy and no, it's not a discussion.


It's going to be okay cupcakes. Lace up your new balances nice and tight and deal with inevitable change.

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Old 09-07-2020, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Halon1211 View Post
F*CK Thugs Lives Matter ...fixed it for ya

The level of cognitive dissonance required to equate "black" to "thugs" and act like you aren't part of the problem is astounding.
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Old 09-07-2020, 11:54 AM
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WSJ had an article with the numbers. Off the top of my head, 9 unarmed black peple killed, 16 unarmed white people killed by police in 2019. something like 2800 black on black murders, and 1000 black abortions a day (WSJ didnt mention abortions but it is our generations moral equivilant of slavery, completely wrong yet people just overlook it). BTW, some people put the number of deaths at the hands of police closer to 30 black and 60 white, statistics are always easy to twist but the point remains the same: Even if it was 30 deaths a year that is a small fraction of Black Lives being killed each year compared to other means.

BLM's focus is on those 9 unarmed killed by the police who in the vast majority could have prevented their own deaths by not resisting the police to the point of complete stupidity.

BTW, I have no problem with Black Lives Matter but the 1984 style group think is getting to be hard to swallow and causes many people to push back. Much like kneeling in the NFL, I was cool with it and supported it but the second it turned into YOU MUST kneel or you are a racist I was like "F that" and they lost my support. Everyday that peaceful protests turned violent BLM lost support. When it become "if you dont support BLM the organization you are a racist" is the day I said to myself "F that".
I personally dont give a rats blankety blank if some FA wears a BLM pin but AA just opened themselves up a big old can of worms. A really, really, really bad idea but hey, I just drive the plane.
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