xxp the subtext is rapidly becoming text.
― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Monday, 21 November 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
btw the aftermath on that Chili's story upthread:
http://www.dallasnews.com/business/restaurants/2016/11/13/man-got-free-veterans-day-meal-cedar-hill-chilis-manager-took-away
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 24 November 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
you guys
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/i-voted-for-trump-so-there-white-shopper-melts-down-after-black-workers-ask-her-to-pay-for-bag/
lol
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 28 November 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
"You standing there with your baby thinking that’s okay”
WITH YOUR BABY
― mark s, Monday, 28 November 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
LITERALLY thinking that's ok
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Monday, 28 November 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
The best I can ask of the racist dystopia my country is hell-bent on being is that it makes me laugh really fucking hard as it works its way around to oppressing me.
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 28 November 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
“You’re a liar, I don’t care, because I’m a consumer,” she shouts at an employee.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
Minneapolis Star-Tribune publishes story about Mall of America's first black Santa, the predictable happens: https://twitter.com/stribgillespie/status/804532412613087232
Good suggestions in the replies to that tweet - only let paid subscribers comments online, but make them visible to everyone.
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Friday, 2 December 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
lol ulysses
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Friday, 2 December 2016 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Three years since Megyn Kelly's "And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white."
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 2 December 2016 16:06 (seven years ago) link
remember when she was as bad as it got? 2014 seems very very far away now.
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 2 December 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
i don't know if this belongs here but i know that if the guy that CONFESSED to the shooting was black he sure as hell would not have been released .
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/joe-mcknight-shooter-released-charged-article-1.2895977
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 December 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
WHAT THE FUCK. I can't even find any explanation or attempted justification for releasing him.
If you'd like more information on the investigation (feel free to disseminate far and fucking wide):Jefferson Parrish Sheriff's Office Homicide Division - 504-364-5300Colonel John N. Fortunato, Commander, Public Information Office - 504-363-5521
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 December 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
first words out of the sheriff's mouth at the press conference are the he will arrest and imprison protesters .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 December 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
what a fucking dick this sheriff is . strange vibe to this thing
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/12/watch_live_sheriff_normand_pre.html
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
wtf does social media have to do with anything and why is he even talking about that?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
Jury says no consensus in South Carolina ex-cop Michael Slager's trial for Walter Scott's murder
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
xpost Well, social media is where I've been spreading his office's contact information, so I guess he has reason to be concerned about that.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
lol nice
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Did Michael Slager, who shot an unarmed black man in the back as he was running away from him, commit a cowardly murder with malice on his mind? How could one ever discern such a thing?
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
wtf this sheriff. Is he going to say anything at all about the decision to release Gasser?
― jmm, Friday, 2 December 2016 20:29 (seven years ago) link
He did say it wasn't about race, so I guess we'll have to find another thread to discuss that particular murder of an unarmed black man.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
One would guess that the lone holdout in the Slager case is a wingnut claiming he's innocent, right
right
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
one would guess that several people in the Slager jury believe that Slager was genuinely in fear for his life as he shot down this man who was running away from him, because black people are terrifying and must be put in their place
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
Serious question: what is the general policy/law on this? Are police legally allowed or expected to shoot fleeing (and assumed armed) suspects?
― Nhex, Friday, 2 December 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure the policy is they do whatever the fuck they like
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
apparently the jury was 11-1 Dan but it doesn't say in which direction
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Friday, 2 December 2016 21:59 (seven years ago) link
hmm
― That's when I fired off my 2 Tweets to Dr. Phil (crüt), Friday, 2 December 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Yes, if they are black.
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
Not only is this what history tells us, but this is also what recent current events tells us. It's an aberration for it to be otherwise.
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 2 December 2016 22:30 (seven years ago) link
yeah summary execution is cool if the person running away is black. doesnt really matter the crime!
― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 2 December 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Other sad shit, no murder though:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-democratic-staffer-exposes-soft-bigotry-senate-dems-article-1.2893049
― El Tomboto, Friday, 2 December 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
Guess I'll post this here since a search turned up no results. Shaun King is spearheading an Injustice Boycott that starts Monday.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm in
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 December 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
Kinda feeling like that needs its own thread, seeing as how it's intended to be an ongoing endeavor with regular updates on plans of action.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 December 2016 01:55 (seven years ago) link
Christ, I'd somehow missed this entirely: a local 24-year-old trying to get on the ballot to run for city clerk was arrested...for petitioning while black. So congratulations to my police department on helping to raise the profile of this guy (who seems pretty righteous) and securing my vote.
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 December 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
I kind of can't stop laughing at that though
...one of the officers, a white woman, saw Reid and another man with clipboards and wondered what they were doing. He said she stopped them and asked for their names and birth dates. The other man was a white 23-year-old, according to a Monday release by the city.The men gave their names but Reid, who said he hopes to run for Evanston city clerk, refused to give his birth date, Dugan said."She asked several times. He refused several times," Dugan said. Finally, the officer told Reid she would arrest him if he did not give his birth date. He still refused and she put him under arrest after calling for assistance from another officer...
The men gave their names but Reid, who said he hopes to run for Evanston city clerk, refused to give his birth date, Dugan said.
"She asked several times. He refused several times," Dugan said. Finally, the officer told Reid she would arrest him if he did not give his birth date. He still refused and she put him under arrest after calling for assistance from another officer...
Keystone Kafka
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 December 2016 04:02 (seven years ago) link
Do we yet have an ongoing "what to do/social activism in the age of Trump" thread or something, because i'd follow that
― Nhex, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:14 (seven years ago) link
Fight hard as fuck iirc
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:36 (seven years ago) link
Give a wrong time, stop a traffic line.
― nickn, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:38 (seven years ago) link
― Nhex
yeah i'm really disappointed at the lack of organization so far. i guess i should organize things myself? but i have severe social anxiety and no clue about how to actually do this stuff.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 December 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link
like, how do we as patients put pressure on the ama to repudiate their endorsement of tom price? that seems like a pretty big thing and pretty important. just calling members of congress isn't going to cut it.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Saturday, 3 December 2016 11:45 (seven years ago) link
New thread: Social Activism in the Age of Trump: What To Do and What We Are Doing
― i need microsoft installed on my desktop, can you help (Old Lunch), Saturday, 3 December 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
http://projects.heraldtribune.com/bias/sentencing
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 December 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-masked-white-men-harass-indigenous-people-north-dakota-article-1.2904957
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/807295020105547776
― and this section is called boner (Phil D.), Friday, 9 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/afamhistfail/status/807302833418731520
― ¶ (DJP), Friday, 9 December 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
https://theawl.com/our-racist-dogs-dc83ca711b42#.9qyo16r3u
― 龜, Sunday, 11 December 2016 04:50 (seven years ago) link
12 grafs retelling the plot of 'White Dog' is maybe not the ideal lede
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 11 December 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
one of the great sam fuller's last films, and -- iirc, i saw it in like 1987 -- a *very* sam fuller movie, meaning intermittently o_0 in amazing ways that literally no one else wd dare
― mark s, Sunday, 11 December 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
sam's fuller brand of anti-racism was so goddamn weird, god bless him
― Nhex, Monday, 12 December 2016 07:22 (seven years ago) link