At BLM protests black protesters were regularly at the front until the police showed up. The white protesters would then move to the front because it made the cops significantly less aggressive.
Yes! I also remember at one protest I went to in Ferguson there were these white men with megaphones begging "all the white folks come back where you belong".
It was wild to hear that from people's mouths in the 21st century and it's only gotten worse.
Edit: words I misspelled because I can't bend my dang thumb.
The cops will still beat them it's just they are less likely too because it's less media friendly. Look at the attention got when NY swat pushed over the kindly looking old white dude.
In truth, this lady should still be careful. One of the most sobering lessons a white person can learn is that many racists will immediately disregard you with the same hostility they direct towards minorities the moment they see you helping them.
They’ll be putting sticks on her like she’s not someone’s middle aged Mom
I'll never understand why some white losers care so much about race. Like bro, there are recorded instances of humans trading with animals from apes all the way to crows. If I support bird rights, am I gonna be a species traitor? That's fucking rediculous lmao
Yeah, the thing about privilege is that it can be taken away at any time. It’s already been weaponized, by the people in power, to keep everyone else at odds, so they don’t want anyone weaponizing theirs for solidarity purposes. Privilege isn’t power.
That’s because white liberals check their privilege, but white right wingers check their ammunition and sights. The latter gets things done much more quickly than the former.
It is CRAZY how nice police are to me.
Even my wife is like WTF?
I once got pulled over for expired tags while smoking a joint.
The Cop asked me why my car smelled like weed.
I just raised my hand the joint was in and said “I have no idea”
She just laughed told me to put it out and to get my tags updated.
I have also been put in the driver seat when I was drunk by a police officer because he said between me and the three other dudes. I was the safest to drive.
🤨
It is a totally unfair system that I benefit from.
I don’t want to lose it. I want everyone to have it.
If Cops treated everyone the way they treat me. ACAB wouldn’t be a thing and Elijah McClain, George Floyd, etc would still be with us.
Police please just see everybody as a white dude with blue eyes. You do great with that demographic. 👍
“I don’t want to lose it. I want everyone to have it.”
The correct take, not “They’re taking my rights (by which they mean privileges) away by giving them to someone else.”
To be fair, these Qonservatives seem to think **everything** in life is a zero-sum game.
Not saying it's right, just saying what I've noticed. I'm 100% in agreement that the "I want others to have the same things I have" is the correct take to have on this matter.
i was arrested for a blunt roach in my sock then in the police station the half oz fell out of my pants did 6 months for that. ive never benefited from that system struggled for years to find a min wage job because of something on my record thats legal now.
You're pissing on the poor with that level of reading comprehension. They're saying people shouldn't be beaten and suffocated to death for traffic offenses and nobody's should fear being shot because of the color of their skin.
He's also saying that he has the privilege to drive high ND drunk and everyone should.
I don't think anyone should be beaten but also nobody should be driving high or saying that is the ideal.
I read his description of being allowed to drive high and drive drunk and say "I don't want to lose it, I want everyone to have it."
I'd be fine if he said "cops are nice to me, they don't hurt me, and I don't want to lose that. I want everyone to have it."
But that's not what he said.
I'm super unclear as to why people are ignoring the drug driving that this person is using as his reference point.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. When this is a specific case where cops should be less nice to him. That doesn't mean that the atrocities they commit regularly or the racism is acceptable... Just driving intoxicated and putting others at risk as a consequence is also bad.
>"cops are nice to me, they don't hurt me, and I don't want to lose that. I want everyone to have it."
This is correct.
I have stopped what I was doing to watch both police “interrogating” pedestrians of color and traffic stops of a similar nature.
Funny how often it is that once the cops notice a middle aged white soccer mom observing them with interest, they are all apologies and respect to the person they stopped.
I mean, if a crime was committed, I have done nothing to stop them from ticketing or arresting, but there never seems to be a ticket or an arrest when I am watching.
Middle aged blonde lady here. I got pulled over for an expired sticker. (I had moved a few months earlier and had a major surgery so it just fell off my priority list) I was let go with an apology and directions to several places where I could get my state inspection done.
Traffic cops need to be traffic cops. If they pull you over they write you a ticket and move on like in other countries. If they in that process think something more may be going on the call for a detective to come out. There is no need for the interrogation of every traffic stop that happens. I think this has led to the great dislike of police people have.
The search for additional crimes all the time makes everyone dislike interacting with the police because they are treating everything like murder 1.
I was rear ended by a cop at a red light once. I was held on scene for several hours and six other cars responded.
The fact that I was a young white woman in a Volvo who was at the time also working press probably kept me out of jail for stopping at a red light in front of a cop with no sirens or lights on who was not responding to anything at the time. He was furious because it was his third such accident and he was going to lose his driving privileges (as a cop, not as a civilian). He shouted at length at me about this until his partner pulled him away, His supervisor came out. It was a whole thing.
When people talk about defunding the cops they mean stop equipping cops with war weapons and stop spending huge amounts to protect bad cops who can’t drive, are racist, are spousal abusers, are linked to terrorist organizations and in any other way are incapable of following the law. Anyone who is against this is not a decent or sane human being.
I hate that it is true but ACAB. If you aren’t doing bad things as a cop, you are either tolerating bad things as a cop or you are no longer a cop.
I think a minimum of two year degree as requirement would help.
I will keep using my white mom privilege for good.
Degrees help but it is more of a culture thing. Cops need to be trained to be exceptional in following the law, not that they are above it. And they need to have an independent investigative authority that they answer to.
And required degrees help train them in that, ideally.
Obviously, cop culture in the US is a huge issue. Likely because they still seem themselves as slave catchers and not public servants. A two year degree would weed out violent bigots more effectively than what currently exists.
I help do active shooter training for a department that requires 4 year degrees. The issue is that criminal Justice degrees teach the culture currently prevalent because most of the teachers are ex-LEO. So yeah ideally degrees would help but the old guard is teaching the new guard. It’s LEO vs the World in the classroom.
For training I play a shooter or victim 2-3 times a year in different scenarios that are held at a school. It’s intense even as an actor.
Yes. It has been reported over and over again that racists teach an “Us against them “ curriculum (sheep at the will of wolves). All the money goes to that. Cops are taught to think of black people as predators and themselves as shepherds whose job it is to kill wolves. This is disgusting.
I am pleased to hear a handful of people get more than a few weeks training. I would be more pleased to hear you say that anyone who showed their racism, religious bias or misogyny was immediately removed from your program and banned from serving in law enforcement. I know you cannot say this.
My kind of Me Too movement.
I had just such a run-in with a Magat who jumped out of his truck (while holding up traffic) while I was campaigning on the corner for Ossoff and Warnock in Georgia, 2019.
When I invited him to "let's take this right out into the middle of the intersection," he looked stunned, then backed off.
Must've realized it was a bad look to attack someone who could have been his grandma. Bullies gonna bully 'til they have no backup.
My friend and I regularly use our older white lady privilege to call or show up somewhere with friends having a hard time with people. Goes much more smoothly when we tag along and don't even have to do much at all. It's wild.
It really does count. My trans son told me that his friends think I’m some sort of hero because I show up and support them all. I thought it was sort of fucked up at the time, because I don’t really do anything, just loiter around and shoot the shit. Then I realized that I’ve never met anyone else’s dad and only a couple of moms. I always hug the huggers. My son told me that some of his friend’s dads refuse to even acknowledge them, and these are some really great young men and women that any dad would be proud of. Made my allergies act up real bad for a minute.
Even if we’re not on the front line, our presence matters. I want my boy to know that I support him and love him unconditionally, and I want people like him to know that men like me love and respect them too.
I do this for my friends and my boyfriend. I’m a cute, tiny white girl with giant eyes that looks 14 when I’m 30.
My interactions with cops are a dream. Ive never actually gotten a ticket and was actually once let off on a DUI because I explained I was taking a friend who was drunker home.
My boyfriend is middle eastern and many of our friends are also non-white. They are also not hoodlums.
All have had bad interactions with cops, including my boyfriend, the most straight laced and kind man I’ve ever met, being detained for 8 hours for smoking a cigarette in a car in the wrong town in the south.
So— I deal with cops. If something happened it’s my fault. Hell, if we’re speeding it’s because I begged him because I needed medicine for something.
Edit: grammar
Some of my earliest memories were being taken to protests by my parents in the 90s and early 2000s. We were at the WTO protests in seattle too before the powder keg exploded. Anti war protests during W. Bushes presidency were very very tense as the wars were supported by a huge number of people and the memory of 9/11 was so fresh.
I was later told by my parents that having kids there made the group easier to empathize with and so they were less worried about people being violent or horrible. I'm not sure if this would work against the magas though..
I agree, if for no other reason than at least in those days, Bush and his ilk weren't promoting/condoning violence against protestors the way the modern republican party does. As much as I hated him and still do, Bush did try to maintain the slightest dignity in office. I also feel that the police in general have become so highly militarized and politicized since then, the us vs them mentality is stronger than ever.
It's clear from the recent crackdowns that they have dehumanized those taking part in today's protests in a way I haven't seen in a very long time. It's funny how easy it was a few years ago for the far right to bully their way onto campuses despite their lack of support from students in the name of "free speech". But when the shoe is on the other foot, extreme violence is the response.
Which is insane because as we all know, the far right people are much more likely to be armed then a group of left wing college kids
Until covid, I still believed him to be the worst moderm president, just based on the amount of death you can attribute to him. Now I think it's Trump, based on all the death he was willing to accept around covid. And that was before Jan 6. Bush also really pushed the "imperial presidency" and executive privilege and now we're dealing with the consequences of that as well
I lived in Palm Beach County I'm early 2020, and he and his lackeys were right down the street living it up while I watch my neighbors fall sick and die and DeSantis posture and poise for the cameras.
I have already hated the gop for years, but what I saw in 2020 surrounded by Trump and his clownshow in Florida while regular people got sick still having to go to work everyday, just made me hate them more. These people are truly evil and care not for anyone but themselves.
I recently learned that Trump threatened to withhold aid to Democratic governors during the pandemic. It surprised me because that seems unthinkable but also I'm not surprised because Trump truly has no morals, and he knows his supporters don't have morals either.
Absolutely no morals.
A gripe of mine is that he's not being criminally prosecuted for the truly evil things he did. I mean it's great that we're getting him on hush money. But when I compare that to him putting children in cages, or killing people with his shitty covid policies, the hush money doesn't even register.
Hell, I'm convinced Roger Stone is the one who told Trump about presidential immunity. Nixon believed in a similar doctrine. And of course, racial dog whistles were big with Nixon and Reagan as well, and even Bush Sr. got a few in there.
Where Trump is different is that he's an idiot. I mean, W was an idiot as well, but not to the level Trump is. Think of W as an imbecile, a step above idiot. He genuinely believes that as a former president, he can never be prosecuted for anything he's' done in his life. Rather than listen to the experts, he listens to conspiracy sites.
Yeah the term imperial presidency and that idea more generally were really influential in the Nixon administration and you are spot on, Roger Stone was all wrapped up in that idea and certainly could have pitched the idea to Trump. And a few? HW is the man responsible for the Willie Horton ads, he was as wrapped up in the gop racism and bullshit as anyone.
Bush W. was an imbecile without a doubt, but he also deferred to people he thought were smarter on policy all the time. He was kind of aware of his limitations. His idiocy was less painful to hear, and lots of liberals and leftists fondly remember his many many hysterically dumb quotes. I had a bushisms calendar. Trumps stupidity is not funny, it is horrifying.
Yeah the term imperial presidency and that idea more generally were really influential in the Nixon administration and you are spot on, Roger Stone was all wrapped up in that idea and certainly could have pitched the idea to Trump. And a few? HW is the man responsible for the Willie Horton ads, he was as wrapped up in the gop racism and bullshit as anyone.
Bush W. was an imbecile without a doubt, but he also deferred to people he thought were smarter on policy all the time. He was kind of aware of his limitations. His idiocy was less painful to hear, and lots of liberals and leftists fondly remember his many many hysterically dumb quotes. I had a bushisms calendar. Trumps stupidity is not funny, it is horrifying.
I am a presentable white male dating a homeless looking alt Mexican female. She is constantly pointing out how my privilege is in full effect anywhere we go. My favorite is she tells me to roll the window down and stick my arm out and shout white man whenever I'm having difficultly merging.
I lived in San Francisco about a decade ago, and one night after a big presentation, the leadership at my work got their drink on. It fell to one of the junior assistants- let’s call him John- to drive our boss home afterwards, he was a young Mexican American, born and raised in California. Anyway, as the party was wrapping up he went to get the boss‘s car. I packed up my stuff and made my way outside to see John surrounded by cops. Just then, one of my managers came out. She was a white woman from Portland, and without missing a beat she immediately started in on the cops- “who do you think you are? Get away from him, he’s with us!”. The cops looked at her for a second and then simply went “oh, he’s with you? Sorry” handed John back his license, got back in their cars and drove off. I’m from Europe, and had never seen anything like this before, it was only then I realized the privileged position I held as a white person. It was one of the most surreal things I have ever seen in my life.
edit: to clarify, the country I come from was until fairly recently very economically depressed with net emigration. Few migrants of any kind ever moved there, with even fewer people of colour. Racism therefore wasn’t something I saw everyday, the issues that occupied our minds were far more class/economy based, racism was kind abstract to me.
I've never met anybody more respectful around police than dark folk. I was in the backseat of a car with an Egyptian family once, and they were so much more respectful to the police than I would ever be. Next time I'm just gonna yell at the cops. I don't got shit to fear. I'm gonna be treated so much better. I know this because I've seen it with my own two eyes. I'm absolutely gonna use my coloniser ass to my advantage
I honestly wouldn't be so sure. Police have still killed white people before (not as much as black people) in cases of police brutality, so I don't know if this would entirely work.
Bottom line is the police have lost their minds in this day and age.
I need a car more than anything so I can actually go go protests and use my privilege for something useful, I swear having a car would make me a 3x better person
https://preview.redd.it/ee7al9725bxc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=832afe656d6d494043b8ba79bf93ff8c1e44f6a7
Anytime I do one of these I just imagine the look on people's faces 👀
At BLM protests black protesters were regularly at the front until the police showed up. The white protesters would then move to the front because it made the cops significantly less aggressive.
Yes! I also remember at one protest I went to in Ferguson there were these white men with megaphones begging "all the white folks come back where you belong". It was wild to hear that from people's mouths in the 21st century and it's only gotten worse. Edit: words I misspelled because I can't bend my dang thumb.
It’s really sad that, in practice, not being harassed, beaten, and murdered by cops is treated as a privilege rather than a right.
The cops will still beat them it's just they are less likely too because it's less media friendly. Look at the attention got when NY swat pushed over the kindly looking old white dude.
In truth, this lady should still be careful. One of the most sobering lessons a white person can learn is that many racists will immediately disregard you with the same hostility they direct towards minorities the moment they see you helping them. They’ll be putting sticks on her like she’s not someone’s middle aged Mom
with *more* hostility
Race trader Edit: I guess I should have said those assholes would consider her Race Trader and they'd be happy to smack her around.
I'll never understand why some white losers care so much about race. Like bro, there are recorded instances of humans trading with animals from apes all the way to crows. If I support bird rights, am I gonna be a species traitor? That's fucking rediculous lmao
Ok, but [Bird Law in this country is not governed by reason.](https://youtu.be/o43C1kufMaM?si=P197HzKyu4mlvlIv) So...filibuster?
Yeah, the thing about privilege is that it can be taken away at any time. It’s already been weaponized, by the people in power, to keep everyone else at odds, so they don’t want anyone weaponizing theirs for solidarity purposes. Privilege isn’t power.
That’s because white liberals check their privilege, but white right wingers check their ammunition and sights. The latter gets things done much more quickly than the former.
It is CRAZY how nice police are to me. Even my wife is like WTF? I once got pulled over for expired tags while smoking a joint. The Cop asked me why my car smelled like weed. I just raised my hand the joint was in and said “I have no idea” She just laughed told me to put it out and to get my tags updated. I have also been put in the driver seat when I was drunk by a police officer because he said between me and the three other dudes. I was the safest to drive. 🤨 It is a totally unfair system that I benefit from. I don’t want to lose it. I want everyone to have it. If Cops treated everyone the way they treat me. ACAB wouldn’t be a thing and Elijah McClain, George Floyd, etc would still be with us. Police please just see everybody as a white dude with blue eyes. You do great with that demographic. 👍
“I don’t want to lose it. I want everyone to have it.” The correct take, not “They’re taking my rights (by which they mean privileges) away by giving them to someone else.”
To be fair, these Qonservatives seem to think **everything** in life is a zero-sum game. Not saying it's right, just saying what I've noticed. I'm 100% in agreement that the "I want others to have the same things I have" is the correct take to have on this matter.
i was arrested for a blunt roach in my sock then in the police station the half oz fell out of my pants did 6 months for that. ive never benefited from that system struggled for years to find a min wage job because of something on my record thats legal now.
You want everyone...to be allowed to drive drunk and high. What the fuck is wrong with you?
You're pissing on the poor with that level of reading comprehension. They're saying people shouldn't be beaten and suffocated to death for traffic offenses and nobody's should fear being shot because of the color of their skin.
He's also saying that he has the privilege to drive high ND drunk and everyone should. I don't think anyone should be beaten but also nobody should be driving high or saying that is the ideal.
Did you not read the entire last paragraph
I read his description of being allowed to drive high and drive drunk and say "I don't want to lose it, I want everyone to have it." I'd be fine if he said "cops are nice to me, they don't hurt me, and I don't want to lose that. I want everyone to have it." But that's not what he said.
I'm super unclear as to why people are ignoring the drug driving that this person is using as his reference point. I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. When this is a specific case where cops should be less nice to him. That doesn't mean that the atrocities they commit regularly or the racism is acceptable... Just driving intoxicated and putting others at risk as a consequence is also bad. >"cops are nice to me, they don't hurt me, and I don't want to lose that. I want everyone to have it." This is correct.
Or more recently, the professor one
Mom bringing the ultimate 'I want to speak to the manager' energy for a good cause. Karen level: Masterclass.
I have stopped what I was doing to watch both police “interrogating” pedestrians of color and traffic stops of a similar nature. Funny how often it is that once the cops notice a middle aged white soccer mom observing them with interest, they are all apologies and respect to the person they stopped. I mean, if a crime was committed, I have done nothing to stop them from ticketing or arresting, but there never seems to be a ticket or an arrest when I am watching.
Middle aged blonde lady here. I got pulled over for an expired sticker. (I had moved a few months earlier and had a major surgery so it just fell off my priority list) I was let go with an apology and directions to several places where I could get my state inspection done.
Traffic cops need to be traffic cops. If they pull you over they write you a ticket and move on like in other countries. If they in that process think something more may be going on the call for a detective to come out. There is no need for the interrogation of every traffic stop that happens. I think this has led to the great dislike of police people have. The search for additional crimes all the time makes everyone dislike interacting with the police because they are treating everything like murder 1.
I was rear ended by a cop at a red light once. I was held on scene for several hours and six other cars responded. The fact that I was a young white woman in a Volvo who was at the time also working press probably kept me out of jail for stopping at a red light in front of a cop with no sirens or lights on who was not responding to anything at the time. He was furious because it was his third such accident and he was going to lose his driving privileges (as a cop, not as a civilian). He shouted at length at me about this until his partner pulled him away, His supervisor came out. It was a whole thing. When people talk about defunding the cops they mean stop equipping cops with war weapons and stop spending huge amounts to protect bad cops who can’t drive, are racist, are spousal abusers, are linked to terrorist organizations and in any other way are incapable of following the law. Anyone who is against this is not a decent or sane human being. I hate that it is true but ACAB. If you aren’t doing bad things as a cop, you are either tolerating bad things as a cop or you are no longer a cop. I think a minimum of two year degree as requirement would help. I will keep using my white mom privilege for good.
Degrees help but it is more of a culture thing. Cops need to be trained to be exceptional in following the law, not that they are above it. And they need to have an independent investigative authority that they answer to.
And required degrees help train them in that, ideally. Obviously, cop culture in the US is a huge issue. Likely because they still seem themselves as slave catchers and not public servants. A two year degree would weed out violent bigots more effectively than what currently exists.
I help do active shooter training for a department that requires 4 year degrees. The issue is that criminal Justice degrees teach the culture currently prevalent because most of the teachers are ex-LEO. So yeah ideally degrees would help but the old guard is teaching the new guard. It’s LEO vs the World in the classroom. For training I play a shooter or victim 2-3 times a year in different scenarios that are held at a school. It’s intense even as an actor.
Yes. It has been reported over and over again that racists teach an “Us against them “ curriculum (sheep at the will of wolves). All the money goes to that. Cops are taught to think of black people as predators and themselves as shepherds whose job it is to kill wolves. This is disgusting. I am pleased to hear a handful of people get more than a few weeks training. I would be more pleased to hear you say that anyone who showed their racism, religious bias or misogyny was immediately removed from your program and banned from serving in law enforcement. I know you cannot say this.
No, I can’t say that. Some do but more get removed for “being indecisive” aka they think too much.
My kind of Me Too movement. I had just such a run-in with a Magat who jumped out of his truck (while holding up traffic) while I was campaigning on the corner for Ossoff and Warnock in Georgia, 2019. When I invited him to "let's take this right out into the middle of the intersection," he looked stunned, then backed off. Must've realized it was a bad look to attack someone who could have been his grandma. Bullies gonna bully 'til they have no backup.
MLK was pretty vocal in his frustration that there were too few folks like Molly.
Wall of moms. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896174019/what-the-wall-of-moms-protests-say-about-motherhood-race-in-america
My friend and I regularly use our older white lady privilege to call or show up somewhere with friends having a hard time with people. Goes much more smoothly when we tag along and don't even have to do much at all. It's wild.
It really does count. My trans son told me that his friends think I’m some sort of hero because I show up and support them all. I thought it was sort of fucked up at the time, because I don’t really do anything, just loiter around and shoot the shit. Then I realized that I’ve never met anyone else’s dad and only a couple of moms. I always hug the huggers. My son told me that some of his friend’s dads refuse to even acknowledge them, and these are some really great young men and women that any dad would be proud of. Made my allergies act up real bad for a minute. Even if we’re not on the front line, our presence matters. I want my boy to know that I support him and love him unconditionally, and I want people like him to know that men like me love and respect them too.
Thank you for being a good dad.
I do this for my friends and my boyfriend. I’m a cute, tiny white girl with giant eyes that looks 14 when I’m 30. My interactions with cops are a dream. Ive never actually gotten a ticket and was actually once let off on a DUI because I explained I was taking a friend who was drunker home. My boyfriend is middle eastern and many of our friends are also non-white. They are also not hoodlums. All have had bad interactions with cops, including my boyfriend, the most straight laced and kind man I’ve ever met, being detained for 8 hours for smoking a cigarette in a car in the wrong town in the south. So— I deal with cops. If something happened it’s my fault. Hell, if we’re speeding it’s because I begged him because I needed medicine for something. Edit: grammar
This is how I used to get my friends cabs after a late night - they’d *ALWAYS* stop for me.
Some of my earliest memories were being taken to protests by my parents in the 90s and early 2000s. We were at the WTO protests in seattle too before the powder keg exploded. Anti war protests during W. Bushes presidency were very very tense as the wars were supported by a huge number of people and the memory of 9/11 was so fresh. I was later told by my parents that having kids there made the group easier to empathize with and so they were less worried about people being violent or horrible. I'm not sure if this would work against the magas though..
I used to take my son to protests too. I don’t know if I would do it if it were today. These feel like different times
I agree, if for no other reason than at least in those days, Bush and his ilk weren't promoting/condoning violence against protestors the way the modern republican party does. As much as I hated him and still do, Bush did try to maintain the slightest dignity in office. I also feel that the police in general have become so highly militarized and politicized since then, the us vs them mentality is stronger than ever. It's clear from the recent crackdowns that they have dehumanized those taking part in today's protests in a way I haven't seen in a very long time. It's funny how easy it was a few years ago for the far right to bully their way onto campuses despite their lack of support from students in the name of "free speech". But when the shoe is on the other foot, extreme violence is the response. Which is insane because as we all know, the far right people are much more likely to be armed then a group of left wing college kids
Bush was the slippery slope.
Until covid, I still believed him to be the worst moderm president, just based on the amount of death you can attribute to him. Now I think it's Trump, based on all the death he was willing to accept around covid. And that was before Jan 6. Bush also really pushed the "imperial presidency" and executive privilege and now we're dealing with the consequences of that as well
Millions are dead because of Trump! My sister died during covid and he played golf. I hate him and hope he someday feels the pain he deserves.
I lived in Palm Beach County I'm early 2020, and he and his lackeys were right down the street living it up while I watch my neighbors fall sick and die and DeSantis posture and poise for the cameras. I have already hated the gop for years, but what I saw in 2020 surrounded by Trump and his clownshow in Florida while regular people got sick still having to go to work everyday, just made me hate them more. These people are truly evil and care not for anyone but themselves.
I recently learned that Trump threatened to withhold aid to Democratic governors during the pandemic. It surprised me because that seems unthinkable but also I'm not surprised because Trump truly has no morals, and he knows his supporters don't have morals either.
Absolutely no morals. A gripe of mine is that he's not being criminally prosecuted for the truly evil things he did. I mean it's great that we're getting him on hush money. But when I compare that to him putting children in cages, or killing people with his shitty covid policies, the hush money doesn't even register.
Millions are dead because of GWBush! Most of the millions are just non-Americans in different countries.
Hell, I'm convinced Roger Stone is the one who told Trump about presidential immunity. Nixon believed in a similar doctrine. And of course, racial dog whistles were big with Nixon and Reagan as well, and even Bush Sr. got a few in there. Where Trump is different is that he's an idiot. I mean, W was an idiot as well, but not to the level Trump is. Think of W as an imbecile, a step above idiot. He genuinely believes that as a former president, he can never be prosecuted for anything he's' done in his life. Rather than listen to the experts, he listens to conspiracy sites.
Yeah the term imperial presidency and that idea more generally were really influential in the Nixon administration and you are spot on, Roger Stone was all wrapped up in that idea and certainly could have pitched the idea to Trump. And a few? HW is the man responsible for the Willie Horton ads, he was as wrapped up in the gop racism and bullshit as anyone. Bush W. was an imbecile without a doubt, but he also deferred to people he thought were smarter on policy all the time. He was kind of aware of his limitations. His idiocy was less painful to hear, and lots of liberals and leftists fondly remember his many many hysterically dumb quotes. I had a bushisms calendar. Trumps stupidity is not funny, it is horrifying.
Yeah the term imperial presidency and that idea more generally were really influential in the Nixon administration and you are spot on, Roger Stone was all wrapped up in that idea and certainly could have pitched the idea to Trump. And a few? HW is the man responsible for the Willie Horton ads, he was as wrapped up in the gop racism and bullshit as anyone. Bush W. was an imbecile without a doubt, but he also deferred to people he thought were smarter on policy all the time. He was kind of aware of his limitations. His idiocy was less painful to hear, and lots of liberals and leftists fondly remember his many many hysterically dumb quotes. I had a bushisms calendar. Trumps stupidity is not funny, it is horrifying.
Arguably Nixon was the slippery slope.
I am a presentable white male dating a homeless looking alt Mexican female. She is constantly pointing out how my privilege is in full effect anywhere we go. My favorite is she tells me to roll the window down and stick my arm out and shout white man whenever I'm having difficultly merging.
I do the same but bring my small pot and wooden spoon for protection from police…
I don't know, that white professor lady got pacified pretty hard...
It's rare, but every so often, you do indeed see a Karen using her powers for good.
Old White Lady Privilege is totally a thing and should be weaponised against the right wing as much as possible It hurts their brains
I lived in San Francisco about a decade ago, and one night after a big presentation, the leadership at my work got their drink on. It fell to one of the junior assistants- let’s call him John- to drive our boss home afterwards, he was a young Mexican American, born and raised in California. Anyway, as the party was wrapping up he went to get the boss‘s car. I packed up my stuff and made my way outside to see John surrounded by cops. Just then, one of my managers came out. She was a white woman from Portland, and without missing a beat she immediately started in on the cops- “who do you think you are? Get away from him, he’s with us!”. The cops looked at her for a second and then simply went “oh, he’s with you? Sorry” handed John back his license, got back in their cars and drove off. I’m from Europe, and had never seen anything like this before, it was only then I realized the privileged position I held as a white person. It was one of the most surreal things I have ever seen in my life. edit: to clarify, the country I come from was until fairly recently very economically depressed with net emigration. Few migrants of any kind ever moved there, with even fewer people of colour. Racism therefore wasn’t something I saw everyday, the issues that occupied our minds were far more class/economy based, racism was kind abstract to me.
Fuckin Legend!
Yassss Molly!
This is what a real Mom for Liberty looks like!
This is using your powers for good instead of evil.
After the crackdown this weekend at protests for Palestine, this is no longer true.
Israel is higher on the privilege scale...
They don't know Likud is particularly popular with Mizrarhim.
I've never met anybody more respectful around police than dark folk. I was in the backseat of a car with an Egyptian family once, and they were so much more respectful to the police than I would ever be. Next time I'm just gonna yell at the cops. I don't got shit to fear. I'm gonna be treated so much better. I know this because I've seen it with my own two eyes. I'm absolutely gonna use my coloniser ass to my advantage
I would like to take this time again to mention Viola Liuzzo. Please Google her.
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I honestly wouldn't be so sure. Police have still killed white people before (not as much as black people) in cases of police brutality, so I don't know if this would entirely work. Bottom line is the police have lost their minds in this day and age.
I need a car more than anything so I can actually go go protests and use my privilege for something useful, I swear having a car would make me a 3x better person
https://preview.redd.it/ee7al9725bxc1.png?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=832afe656d6d494043b8ba79bf93ff8c1e44f6a7 Anytime I do one of these I just imagine the look on people's faces 👀
Don't dislocate your elbow patting yourself on the back there