Police Power and Racial Tensions in Ferguson, Missouri
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here's the actual sign:
AlaskanAssassin
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Harvard has done a recent study that allows people to measure their subconscious prejudices through an online test. You can take it on a variety of issues (race, age, weight, sex, etc.) and it does a good job of showing how our minds work and associate positive feelings with some characteristics, and negative feelings with others. It points out that much of our prejudices are subconscious, and that we unable or unwilling to admit such feelings and prejudices. Here is the link.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
I'm posting this here because after I took a couple of these tests I wondered about D. Wilson and some of his possible prejudices. Would the situation have gone down differently if Michael Brown was White? The short answer is that it probably would have changed the outcome to some extent. To what extent, and how much fault we can place on people due to their subconscious attitudes towards others (prejudices that we all have, mind you) is a difficult question to answer. Take the test and I bet you will be surprised at some biases and prejudices that you didn't know you had.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
I'm posting this here because after I took a couple of these tests I wondered about D. Wilson and some of his possible prejudices. Would the situation have gone down differently if Michael Brown was White? The short answer is that it probably would have changed the outcome to some extent. To what extent, and how much fault we can place on people due to their subconscious attitudes towards others (prejudices that we all have, mind you) is a difficult question to answer. Take the test and I bet you will be surprised at some biases and prejudices that you didn't know you had.
freakazoid
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ehYIR26ZsK4
Those were fun. I guess I'm a closet hater of gays, Muslims, blacks, Asians, and fat people.
Really, it's not that far in the closet.
More seriously, it's about bias, not hate.
Agreed. I thought that cop would be charged with something for sure. Hopefully things don't get violent.
candrew
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I'm sure they'll be some but the one major difference between this and Ferguson is there wasn't the polarization of opinion along racial lines regarding the incident. Pretty much everyone, black, white, whatever felt this cop should be facing some serious jail time - except the jurors and the prosecutor, apparently.
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Now they're talking about indicting Brown's stepfather.
https://news.yahoo.com/michael-browns-stepdad-investigated-comments-204459408.html
https://news.yahoo.com/michael-browns-stepdad-investigated-comments-204459408.html
Link for the no-bill in the death of Eric Gardner:
https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-grand-jury-return-no-indictment-police-choke-193254083.html
I will never again be surprised by a lack of an indictment against a police officer. They have all-but-immunity.
https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-grand-jury-return-no-indictment-police-choke-193254083.html
I will never again be surprised by a lack of an indictment against a police officer. They have all-but-immunity.
So I must be pro-gay rights, fascinated by Islam and saddened when it gets dragged through the mud by fanatical *** wipes, jealous of freakishly good black athletes, a major fan of Asian food and Asian chicks while at the same time being jealous of their intellectual dominance, all while being married to a fat chick -- because deep down, I'm trying to hide my bias?
Tell me more.
As they should. He should be responsible for every bitch that was burned down.
Do you know if the prosecutor recommended any charges to the grand jury?
You can be pro-gay-rights and has an unconscious bias against gays at the same time, absolutely. I don't make any claim for either causing the other; in all likelihood, you're not aware enough of your biases to compensate in such a fashion.
As should go without saying, the same applies to me an my biases.
Why?
If I am at a bank when someone is robbing it, and I don't like the decision that the bank made to deny me a car loan, and I tell the robber to go ahead and "shoot that bitch" as I point to the loan officer who denied me, then I should be held responsible for the loan officer getting shot -- along with the bank robber.
Totally different, but not really.
Also, your take on my biases (is that the correct plurality??) is a total joke. I love you still, but damn, man.
Totally different, but not really.
Also, your take on my biases (is that the correct plurality??) is a total joke. I love you still, but damn, man.
Nightmare
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Cop cleared for Eric Garner chokehold (banned technique for 21 years) conveniently the cops called it a headlock rather than a chokehold.
https://nypost.com/2014/12/03/cop-cleared-in-eric-garner-chokehold-death/
https://nypost.com/2014/12/03/cop-cleared-in-eric-garner-chokehold-death/
Yeah, the difference between hearing you won't get a loan and that your stepson's killer will not even be indicted, such a small thing to you. For you, it's not at all mitigated the hours of time that Head has joined with his wife in the pleas for non-violence. No, that one comment is enough to convict the man in your eyes.
Your previous paragraph is more than enough evidence for my take on your biases.
This seems appropriate for this thread
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014...-walking-with-hands-in-pockets_n_6242584.html
I saw it on Jon Stewart's show. Now the sheriff said he acted appropriately for stopping a black man for making people nervous by walking with his hands in his pockets. Our country is a sad state of affairs when the guy had to explain WHY he had to walk with hands in pockets (cold weather)...
The system is definitely broken.
The guy is lucky he didn't get shot. Obviously the sheriff was one of the "cool" policemen.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014...-walking-with-hands-in-pockets_n_6242584.html
I saw it on Jon Stewart's show. Now the sheriff said he acted appropriately for stopping a black man for making people nervous by walking with his hands in his pockets. Our country is a sad state of affairs when the guy had to explain WHY he had to walk with hands in pockets (cold weather)...
The system is definitely broken.
The guy is lucky he didn't get shot. Obviously the sheriff was one of the "cool" policemen.