Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:35 last edited by
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
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It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:41 last edited by@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
The end result is actual racism.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:48 last edited by
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 16:49 last edited by@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
And that is the truth.
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@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
The end result is actual racism.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 17:08 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
It seems unrealistic to think anything is going to “fix” this. The left is content to be overtly tribal in the service of their full stop stance against racism, and the right has a choice to join them so that all their acquaintances know they are not racist, or continue to side politically with the right while being not racist but thought of as such. At least it beats joining them.
The end result is actual racism.
Yup. McWhorter wrote a book about it. The ideas therein are our best hope at shaming the masses of indoctrinated idiots away from their indoctrination.
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 17:37 last edited by@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
A train wreck might get some eyeballs, but train wrecks don't make people feel good about themselves, unless they can somehow blame their tribe's enemy for it. The eyeballs are attracted to corporate media mostly because the media is in service of the tribalism. And tribalism is effective because it relates directly to meaning in a person's life. It reinforces their belief that they are on right side of history.
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@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
And that is the truth.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 18:00 last edited by@mik said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
And that is the truth.
But they apply the tribal spin to get those eyeballs. If we were better viewers and consumers of media, we wouldn’t be in this situation and the media wouldn’t be as bad as it is.
And that does apply to both sides. One side may be more extreme about it, but that doesn’t absolve the other.
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@mik said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
And that is the truth.
But they apply the tribal spin to get those eyeballs. If we were better viewers and consumers of media, we wouldn’t be in this situation and the media wouldn’t be as bad as it is.
And that does apply to both sides. One side may be more extreme about it, but that doesn’t absolve the other.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 18:22 last edited by Horace@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@mik said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
And that is the truth.
But they apply the tribal spin to get those eyeballs. If we were better viewers and consumers of media, we wouldn’t be in this situation and the media wouldn’t be as bad as it is.
It's not just the CNNs and MSNBCs of the world. Fictitious leftist narratives are propagated everywhere from TV to movies to music to the classroom, grade one through university. But those reacting against "critical race theory" are just whatabouted out of the conversation, as if they're just as bad as the other tribe. Because they're reacting against total cultural domination of fictitious and destructive narratives. There's no way humans are going to be able to discard the nonsense out of the overwhelming tide of fiction they're fed from birth. That's not how humans operate.
And that does apply to both sides. One side may be more extreme about it, but that doesn’t absolve the other.
Well, it's about triaging the problems.
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@mik said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
And that is the truth.
But they apply the tribal spin to get those eyeballs. If we were better viewers and consumers of media, we wouldn’t be in this situation and the media wouldn’t be as bad as it is.
It's not just the CNNs and MSNBCs of the world. Fictitious leftist narratives are propagated everywhere from TV to movies to music to the classroom, grade one through university. But those reacting against "critical race theory" are just whatabouted out of the conversation, as if they're just as bad as the other tribe. Because they're reacting against total cultural domination of fictitious and destructive narratives. There's no way humans are going to be able to discard the nonsense out of the overwhelming tide of fiction they're fed from birth. That's not how humans operate.
And that does apply to both sides. One side may be more extreme about it, but that doesn’t absolve the other.
Well, it's about triaging the problems.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 18:33 last edited by@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
critical race theory
There is no equivalence there, CRT has been and is being promoted in schools. Oh, it might not be the exact same legal theory as proposed in Law Schools, but it is still based on the same “Antiracist, white fragility” crap, and the problem is that a milder version of the same curriculum has been in the schools for a generation without us realizing it. That’s why there is such a huge disconnect.
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@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
critical race theory
There is no equivalence there, CRT has been and is being promoted in schools. Oh, it might not be the exact same legal theory as proposed in Law Schools, but it is still based on the same “Antiracist, white fragility” crap, and the problem is that a milder version of the same curriculum has been in the schools for a generation without us realizing it. That’s why there is such a huge disconnect.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 18:35 last edited by@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
critical race theory
There is no equivalence there, CRT has been and is being promoted in schools. Oh, it might not be the exact same legal theory as proposed in Law Schools, but it is still based on the same “Antiracist, white fragility” crap, and the problem is that a milder version of the same curriculum has been in the schools for a generation without us realizing it. That’s why there is such a huge disconnect.
Ask me why I got my humanities Master's overseas.
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This shit.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 18:49 last edited by
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 19:11 last edited by
well, they wanted to be black, anyway.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 19:11 last edited by
We are all black.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 20:11 last edited by
Norfolk VA cop fired because he anonymously donated $25 to Rittenhouse defense fund. He should end up with a big settlement if the facts are as he states.
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@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
At the danger of repeating myself once again, the US needs to tighten up the laws regarding the reporting of criminal cases.
Journalists who attempt to follow a juror home should go to jail.
Taking cameras out of the court room wouldn’t hurt, either. The media and a lot of the public are treating this like reality TV.
Complaining isn’t going to fix this.
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 20:50 last edited by Jolly@doctor-phibes said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
This tribalism is about to destroy this whole frigging thing.
It's not as much tribalism as media sensationalism. They want eyeballs, Truth be damned.
At the danger of repeating myself once again, the US needs to tighten up the laws regarding the reporting of criminal cases.
Journalists who attempt to follow a juror home should go to jail.
Taking cameras out of the court room wouldn’t hurt, either. The media and a lot of the public are treating this like reality TV.
Complaining isn’t going to fix this.
I agree with you. I'd also like to see the defendant's name not released until after the trial is over.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 21:23 last edited by
No more crossing state lines.
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@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
critical race theory
There is no equivalence there, CRT has been and is being promoted in schools. Oh, it might not be the exact same legal theory as proposed in Law Schools, but it is still based on the same “Antiracist, white fragility” crap, and the problem is that a milder version of the same curriculum has been in the schools for a generation without us realizing it. That’s why there is such a huge disconnect.
Ask me why I got my humanities Master's overseas.
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This shit.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 23:15 last edited by@aqua-letifer said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
critical race theory
There is no equivalence there, CRT has been and is being promoted in schools. Oh, it might not be the exact same legal theory as proposed in Law Schools, but it is still based on the same “Antiracist, white fragility” crap, and the problem is that a milder version of the same curriculum has been in the schools for a generation without us realizing it. That’s why there is such a huge disconnect.
Ask me why I got my humanities Master's overseas.
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This shit.
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Hot Aussie wimmenz?
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@aqua-letifer said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@lufins-dad said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
@horace said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
critical race theory
There is no equivalence there, CRT has been and is being promoted in schools. Oh, it might not be the exact same legal theory as proposed in Law Schools, but it is still based on the same “Antiracist, white fragility” crap, and the problem is that a milder version of the same curriculum has been in the schools for a generation without us realizing it. That’s why there is such a huge disconnect.
Ask me why I got my humanities Master's overseas.
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This shit.
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Hot Aussie wimmenz?
wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 23:17 last edited by@jolly said in Rittenhouse verdict - how will America react?:
Hot Aussie wimmenz?
Well, there is that.
But also far less liberal poisoning in the universities.
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wrote on 21 Nov 2021, 23:18 last edited by
The ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America) posted a Pastoral Letter)
11/19/2021 4:00:00 PM
Dear church,
In the book of Leviticus we read: "You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor" (19:15).
Our social message on Community Violence urges us to become more involved in countering the reality and fear of violence in our communities and our neighbors' communities, pursuing justice and seeking peace no matter how long the journey or complex the challenge.
When a child is allowed to become a vigilante without recourse, we are forced to confront the idols of our society: guns, violence and white supremacy. To be sure, this is not about one person, but indeed about all of us, together.
Today's acquittal is an injustice. It points to the disorder in which we all live. As we seek to restore justice; so also will we restore God to God's rightful place at the center of our life together.
In Christ,
The Rev. Elizabeth A. Eaton
Presiding Bishop
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
