colfax_m
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I did not know that he pointed a loaded gun on the belly of a pregnant woman while his accomplices robbed her and then pistol whipped her. This is the âheroâ of BLM? Come on. He didnât deserve to die the way he did but he is far from a hero. And now our cities burn and police officers are vilified. Very sad. Very illogical. 99% of police officers are great people.
99% of protesters are good people by their get vilified.
See how that works?
100% of protesters are good people. 100% of looters and rioters are bad people and should be vilified. See how that works?
Thatâs not how the right is seeing the issue.
Protesting peacefully is a right just like the right to bear arms. Looting, burning, maiming and killing is bad. But these people pretend they are protesters so the lines are blurry. They aren't protesters. They are sick in the head "WOKE" opportunists.
99% of the people out there this week were peaceful protestors wanting to fight system problems in society. You are a child of privilege living in elite neighborhoods. Youâre about isolated and out of touch as one could be.
Youâre twisting the narrative. I am a child of immigrants who came here with nothing. Our operational definition of âprivilegeâ differs and most of the rioters are white kids. Likely privileged by your definition and youâre making up the 99% number.
Your parents didnât grow up with privilege. You did.
Did you make up the 99% number in your original post?
I never Said 99%. You did.
You have no idea how I grew up. You assume privilege based solely on skin color. So are LeBron James kids, âprivilegedâ?
You feeling okay? You canât even remember what you typed a few hours ago.
99% of police officers are great people.
Lebronâs kids certainly are privileged in many ways. Based on everything youâve said, you are a product of privilege.
I thought you meant protesters. Sorry. I meant 99.9%. If they werenât we would have a lawless country of rapes and murders.
That makes no sense. Youâre being quite illogical.
What doesnât make sense is you not vilifying George for his prior actions and admitting he was not a good guy.
His past certainly was bad. He made a lot of mistakes. Some egregious.
He did time in prison. Moved halfway across the country and hadnât had trouble for about a decade. I wonât give up on people. I want them to be able to get better when they havenât been.
You donât have kids. Anyone who points a gun at a pregnant womanâs belly, robs her and then pistol whips her should be in jail for life IMO. Despicable act. The act the media doesnât cover.
You donât know much about me so donât pretend you do.
A despicable act to be sure. But the death penalty for such an act is insane.
Yet you tell me I am privileged consistently and you know as much about me. We all make educated guesses.
I know exactly what youâve said about your parents. Youâve said theyâve attained high educational status and substantial wealth, have they not?
You claimed you earn an income that puts you around the top 1% of the nation and live in an extremely wealthy neighborhood. Correct?
Youâve also said your parents have achieved many times more success than you have, which is substantial given your own personal success.
So yeah, I conclude you are a product of privilege.
Since when does hard work and grit equate to "privilege"? Do tell.
The successful often overestimate their own abilities and hard work as being the sole cause of their success.
Itâs an ego thing.
Then what is it? Luck? My dad didn't speak English well. My mom was in dental school. Eventually they did very well but it took around 20 years. I moved out when I was 17. I also had to grow up with a very ethnic Jewish name, that played real well down south....
If you use race and privilege as the only cards then you're missing out. I ask again, are LeBron James' kids privileged?
Success isnât born just of hard work. Itâs born of community, of upbringing, and a lot of luck. Many other factors I canât think off the top of my head. I grew up in rural nowhere without wealth but I know I had privileges. Hard work is almost always necessary. Itâs rarely sufficient.
Sure, anyone born of wealth has some privilege. But race presents advantages as well. To me, itâs undeniable. Lebronâs kids may have wealth, but any young black person can tell you society assumes certain things about people that they donât assume about others. Black people arenât given the benefit of the doubt in the same way others are.
Depends where. On a playground those kids thrive. My kids have zero prejudices (they are 10 and 12). To them a kid with two moms or two dads is normal. My 10-year old's BFF comes from a bi-racial HH and her dad is my very good friend. You make up these odd views but in real life, people are just people.
Our social structure reinforces these prejudices. Think about how much exposure your kids have to poor black people their age. Do they go to school with them? Hang out with them? Is your 10 year oldâs BFF father successful like yourself?