They came for the white dudes, and I said nothing, because I was not a white dude.(oh wait...)
― slamming on the dubstep brakes (snoball), Monday, 19 August 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah nobody gave a fuck when they sent chuck d to nicaragua and tortured him to death for stealing documents from the nsa
― No results found for "churl sweatshirt" (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 19 August 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
.....
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
...and i said nothing because i was not a white dude with a thumbdrive full of secrets in my cargo shorts
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
there isn't really any direct precedent to snowden &c
america is a white supremacist nation, everyone knows this, it doesn't really pertain to what is happening here or lend any light to this minor injustice by relating it to an unrelated and much greater injustice
― No results found for "churl sweatshirt" (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
can we just say what this really is, which is now that ostensibly democratic governments are targeting and detaining white dudes for talking shit about them, it's finally unacceptable?
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, August 19, 2013 2:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
David Miranda isn't white
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
dun dun DUN
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Srsly why bring in skin colour?
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 19, 2013 3:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
in case this thread didn't have its ticket punched to clusterfuckville
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
Hey i didn't bring it up. DJP hasn't been in here before, came in to drop that, and left again.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
Which is fine. But a recipe for derailing the thread tbh
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
dropped it from his thumbdrive filled with reverse racism
― szarkasm (schlump), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
Playing the race thumbdrive xp darn it
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link
dan is the real racist imho
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
xposts: lbi i wasn't attacking you, just responding your question
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
A.Clover I realized that a second too late, thanks and nbd
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
S. s.clover
no miranda rights for this guy!!
― i am.. a maven (Matt P), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:22 (ten years ago) link
should dump this on whatever assange thread we have, but since i brought it up:
http://twitlonger.com/show/n_1rlvd57
And so, that's quite an interesting phenomenon in the United States. The position of the Libertarian Republican, or a better description Right, coming from a principle of non-violence which is the American Libertarian tradition. That produces interesting results.
So, non-violence: well, don't go and invade a foreign country. Non-violence: don't force people at the barrel of a gun to serve in the U.S. Army. Non-violence: doesn't extort taxes from people to the federal Government with a policeman. Similarly, other aspects of non-violence in relation to abortion that they hold.
I think some of these positions that are held by Rand Paul, while I can see how they come from the same underlying Libertarian principle, I think the world is often more complex and by taking a no-doubt principled, but sometimes simplistic position, you end up undermining the principle.
― R'LIAH (goole), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:23 (ten years ago) link
yo LBI just fyi it's really really not ok to shout down a black person for "bringing up race," especially when discussing an issue (e.g. airport security/screenings) for which race is blatantly a major determining factor. no matter where you live. #whitebtw
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
...
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
I can't even tell if you are serious or not...
"Shout down"?!
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:27 (ten years ago) link
good grief
― caek, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
whatever. never mind.
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:29 (ten years ago) link
over under on lbi leaving this thread?
― caek, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
keep on truckin guys, clusterfuckville just around the bend, they got lotsa posts there
― i am.. a maven (Matt P), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
glad to see the PC BRIGADE have shown up to censor our language
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Jesus Curtis. I "shout down a black person" according to you, and now you just say "never mind"? Gee thanks a lot dude.
I responded to DJP marching in saying "can we just say what this really is, which is now that ostensibly democratic governments are targeting and detaining white dudes for talking shit about them, it's finally unacceptable?"
Is that really "what this really is"? Miranda isn't even white! Dan implies we finally think this code of conduct isn't ok because it happens to a white person (which Miranda isn't btw, but lets stay fact free right?) and I get flack for "shouting down a black person"?
Fuck that.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
Caek, why would I leave this thread?
you can't censor t'internet man
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
I had a long post about how a good chunk of the discourse around this was casting Greenwald's husband's detainment as an attack on Greenwald, turning the detention of a person of color into an intimidation tactic against a white person, and that a good amount of the outrage was coming out of that reading but given that the overarching reaction I got was "everyone knows the US is racist so we don't need to talk about it" I figured I'd honor the parameters people want the conversation to be in and listen to my better judgment this time.
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
I'd also point out that I had posted a couple of jokes earlier in the thread, both today and two months ago, which would at least signal that I'd been reading the thread if not being an active participant, but you know what fuck it
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
I agree with Dan that there's overwhelming evidence this sort of thing happens all the time to non-white people, and that most of the time it's hardly noticed in the wider media or culture, and that way more people seem upset about this than would be upset if dude's name was Mohamed and he wasn't dating Glenn Greenwald.
xp!
a good chunk of the discourse around this was casting Greenwald's husband's detainment as an attack on Greenwald, turning the detention of a person of color into an intimidation tactic against a white person
hadn't even occurred to me, goddamn
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
lbi, you have a tendency to say (at best) tin-eared things then leave threads after being called out. i wish you luck on this latest quest.
― caek, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
also dan don't mean to put words in yr mouth obv, just a reading of what i thought you were saying
kind of jealous that gg has a brazilian boyfriend
― i am.. a maven (Matt P), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
Hoos that is pretty much exactly what I was saying.
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:41 (ten years ago) link
@Caek, did I say tin-eared things?
I know for sure no one engaged in this thread has ever made light, has always acknowledged, how white people get picked on way less, in every respect. And that that is repulsive. I just don't see how it is that relevant to this particular issue.
And I certainly don't care for being told to I a "shouting down a black person". I forcefully resent that.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
I too agree with what Hoos said up here. But to say that that is what this is really about, that this is a racist issue, that I do not agree with.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
but the thing is, race is always an issue, when you say 'let's not make this about race,' that is tin-eared
― i am.. a maven (Matt P), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
it is probably 'easier' in some v. important ways to detain a brown person for nine hours than it is to detain a white person, all secret spy info aside
― i am.. a maven (Matt P), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
What does that mean, Matt? That Greenwald's husband was less likely to have been detained if he was white? I just don't believe that. They detained the husband because it was Greenwald's husband.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
He, not it
Srsly why bring in skin colour?― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 19, 2013 3:07 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkHey i didn't bring it up. DJP hasn't been in here before, came in to drop that, and left again.― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 19, 2013 3:10 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkWhich is fine. But a recipe for derailing the thread tbh― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 19, 2013 3:11 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 19, 2013 3:07 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 19, 2013 3:10 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, August 19, 2013 3:11 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i'm sorry you don't care for it when people point out your terrible posts, but this seems to be incredibly dismissive and pretty much the definition of a presumption of bad faith.
― caek, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
i don't mean to speak against this, but, greenwald himself has been pushing discourse in this exact way. greenwald being the 'real target' in the whole mess, miranda just the courier.
it does make you wonder if the UK authorities would have dared detain greenwald himself, had he chosen to travel to see poitras personally via london
which makes you wonder if that was part of the motivation to have miranda act as a trusted but non-famous go-between.
which makes you FURTHER wonder why greenwald would think miranda would NOT be on the authorities' radar, given their capabilities and motivations. which is kinda what nilmar was getting at earlier.
― R'LIAH (goole), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
it rubs the secrets on its skin
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Ok Caek, you made your point. I just don't think this is about the color of one's skin. Greenwald's husband was detained because he is Greenwald's husband.
― In the airplane over the .CSS (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
tbf over the last decade or so there has been a lot of tearing of clothes and mashing of teeth over the extra judicial detainment of people who are not white eg gitmo, which is not to say that people arent inordinately exercised over this particular incident, some of which is prob wrapped up in race and a lot of which has to do w how people feel journalists should be treated and is driven a lot particularly by how journalists feel journalists should be treated, journalists of course are often wite btw
― lag∞n, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:50 (ten years ago) link
i guess i'm asking "what did greenwald expect?" not in a sense of snotty, cynically dismissiveness; i really do wonder what gg expected to happen here.
― R'LIAH (goole), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link
I am fully aware of this; it's one of the things I dislike about Greenwald.
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:51 (ten years ago) link