this guy has made birdwatching cool again, and thus deserves to be Time's person of the year
― imago, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
glad those cops were fired but this is straight up murder
― frogbs, Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:49 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'm hoping this will make any ensuing FBI investigation and charges easier, as they will no longer have the police union's protection.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
I rarely (never?) post on this thread, so I don't know if this would be considered frivolous.
http://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/entertainment/jimmy-fallon-apology/index.html
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
if you're wondering why "make whites great again" is trending on twitter,
Here is Derek Chauvin, the racist cop who kept his knee on #GeorgeFloyd’s neck, cut off his air passage and murdered him, wearing a “Make Whites Great Again” hat, a clear sign that this piece of excrement should’ve been taken off the streets a long time ago.#JusticeForFloyd pic.twitter.com/KxGxHAIzlH— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) May 27, 2020
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
Just had a split-second flashback to the MAGA-hatted teen smirking at a Native American activist near the Lincoln Memorial back in January 2019, i.e. several galactic eons ago
If you remember correctly, the commentariat decided it was OK for him to be up in the face of an old guy because elsewhere on the National Mall and the Black Hebrews had yelled at him several minutes earlier
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
apparently that's not actually him. seem to be some pics of him front & center at a Trump rally though
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
I rarely (never?) post on this thread, so I don't know if this would be considered frivolous.http://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/entertainment/jimmy-fallon-apology/index.html
fwiw Fallon (who I assume was a 1st year cast member at the time?) probably isn't the person to be upset at for this, a bunch of writers & Lorne Michaels had to sign off on that
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:19 (three years ago) link
If you remember correctly, the commentariat decided it was OK for him to be up in the face of an old guy because elsewhere on the National Mall and the Black Hebrews had yelled at him several minutes earlier.
iirc the old guy came up to the kid and the internet libs went crazy about a minor making a face that reminded them of bullies in high school. that incident imo was shameful + has v little to do with cooper or the minneapolis killing which were serious crimes and not the fever dreams of angry twitterers.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
that's... one reading of it
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
maybe none of us rc
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
The man on the right isn’t Derek Chauvin. He isn’t a cop. He is Jonathan Lee Riches, a notorious con man, troll and prankster, not to mention the "world's most litigious man." Riches injects himself, indefensibly, into tragic news events, even if it means going to prison. https://t.co/Y66mXihrYB— Luke O'Brien (@lukeobrien) May 27, 2020
― fatuous salad (symsymsym), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
sorry for introducing that into the thread. shit is bad enough without introducing whatever the hell is going on with that dude
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
(but thank you to symsymsym and frogbs for pointing it out)
iirc the old guy came up to the kid and the internet libs went crazy about a minor making a face that reminded them of bullies in high school. that incident imo was shameful
what the fuck is wrong with you
― no (Left), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
just credulously (I hope) repeating the 4chan/fox news line here
― no (Left), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
oh no don't cancel me plz mister
― Mordy, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
too late
― no (Left), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 18:28 (three years ago) link
did you get outraged over that scary muslim woman yelling at poor pregnant chelsea too
― no (Left), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
on a lighter (?) note, here's Christian Cooper's measured response following Amy Cooper's firinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/nyregion/amy-cooper-dog-central-park.html
“I am one of the few male African-Americans who birds the Ramble regularly,” he said. “And I have always been aware that if I am crawling around behind a shrub trying to catch a glimpse of that rare bird, holding a metal object in my hands, I will be perceived differently than a white man if police come across that scene. I didn’t want to kowtow to that, I didn’t want to give it any power,” he added. “I am pretty adamant about not being a participant in my own dehumanization.”“It’s a little bit of a frenzy, and I am uncomfortable with that,” he said. “If our goal is to change the underlying factors, I am not sure that this young woman having her life completely torn apart serves that goal.”
“It’s a little bit of a frenzy, and I am uncomfortable with that,” he said. “If our goal is to change the underlying factors, I am not sure that this young woman having her life completely torn apart serves that goal.”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
or, alternately, Damon Young's brief meditation on forgiveness
https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/thoughts-on-forgiving-amy-cooper-aka-darth-karen-who-1843701476
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
^^^v thought-provoking and dignified piece
― imago, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
I have to admit I'm almost convinced by that.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
enjoyed that quite a bit
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 21:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/black-parents-children-safety-talk-blake/index.html
― (so serious) (DJP), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
WNYC putting David Brooks on to talk about moral leadership is odious
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
feel like wnyc has lost their way a bit
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 May 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
And I’ll just leave this here. And not one of these other actors spoke up for me and the fact I was not on here, being as well known as most of them. pic.twitter.com/z3t3rXPBNy— Noel Clarke (@NoelClarke) May 29, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 29 May 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
poor Mickey!naw really that is lame
― Nhex, Friday, 29 May 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
FYI: I’m not impressed with the violence. I’m not impressed with the looting… I am Fn Happy as Hell!! That the people finally Stood Up Nationally to the BS..— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) May 31, 2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile, in Britain:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/01/uk-police-accused-of-targeting-black-people-during-lockdown
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
xp: I have never been so uncomfortable surrounded by NYPD as when I attended Ice-T's Body Count show in the '90s, which brought out extra "Cop Killer" Blue Wall ... not until OWS. It sort of crystallized my contempt for cops.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
and i share that, but now is when the world needs cops like you would be, because still, imo.
― inveterate practitioner of antisocial distancing (Hunt3r), Monday, 1 June 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
Skai Jackson is spending the day on Twitter ruining the lives of racist high schoolers by identifying them along with their online racism and it's kind of hilarious
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
In more direct news, one of my coworkers is fundraising for the Black Lives Matter Foundation
https://www.gofundme.com/f/zdku77-black-lives-matter
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
Here is a weird one. my friend (who is white), just posted a graphic today of an exchange with a business owner, calling for boycott. one of his employees has a picture of a license plate that says Florida Cracker, and the friend claims that cracker means "slave owner", and thus this employee is bragging about being a slave owner. when she reported it tot he owner, he was confused, so she posted the conversation and asked us to boycott the business since he didn't terminate or discipline the employee.
I can't find any corroboration on the idea of cracker meaning "slave owner", as it was usually used to describe poor white people, plus it runs counter to what I've always been told about what 'cracker' mean, and I've always understood "Florida cracker" to be something completely different. Am I missing something?
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/07/01/197644761/word-watch-on-crackers
https://tampamagazines.com/florida-cracker-cowboys-history/
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Yeah I think your friend is confused. They will feel pretty bad when they figure it out
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
In Florida, we don't leave crackers on the counter for fear of ants and roaches iirc
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
on the plus side, though, last week she did get an unrepentant, virulent FB racist who was saying some really vile shit fired from a local eatery after going to the owner and sharing the employee's dirty work with him so....I commend her for that.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
lol Alfred
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
I always thought cracker = whip-cracker and def associated with slavery in that sense, like enforcer if not owner
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
in fact I never really gave it this much thought before but I wonder if it has an even more nuanced meaning, like the "cracker" is not the rich white slave owner, but the lower status white who takes the job as enforcer and deserves special contempt for taking the side of the oppressor.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_(term)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
sounds like maybe all of the above
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:08 (three years ago) link
xp lol, sorry man alive
just saw that.
compounding things even more is this person's plate clearly said Florida Cracker, which....is apparently its own separate thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker
ugh slang is so confusing
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
I suppose I assumed “cracker” came from crackers the food being uh. White-ish. And dry.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
Good craic.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
xpost i like that reading.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
I think it's a good example of how multi-layered language can be. Like it may well be that certain southern whites were referred to as "crackers" for reasons having nothing to do with whip-cracking or being white and dry like a cracker, and that the same term was also repurposed for its double entendre.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link