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  McKinney Texas pool party?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

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  so today i was asked my thoughts on the pool party incident in mcminney, texas.

  my response: it shows a clash of expectations.

  i saw police officers who expected citizens to listen to and follow instructions.

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  paulmolark

  Over reaction to teenager behavior because of teenager skin color... Is that possible? Yes. Probable... Welllllllll
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  McKinney Texas pool party?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. social
  2. current

  so today i was asked my thoughts on the pool party incident in mcminney, texas.

  my response: it shows a clash of expectations.

  i saw police officers who expected citizens to listen to and follow instructions.

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  paulmolark

  Lol. When things happen all the time to certain groups of people in a country it is sensible for people to compare past experiences with current ones... My experience across this country and from family and from friends is that police often lack respect and take liberties they should not.

  happens frequently with minorities. The department of justice is aware of it. Recorded history is a testament to it.

  people March because they experience it.

  the police chief said this officers actions were indefensible.

  This country has a history and a current story of those in power using it unfairly because they think the rules do not apply.
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  McKinney Texas pool party?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. social
  2. current

  so today i was asked my thoughts on the pool party incident in mcminney, texas.

  my response: it shows a clash of expectations.

  i saw police officers who expected citizens to listen to and follow instructions.

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  paulmolark

  " As a white kid I was a minority in that neighborhood. I found myself preyed upon by black kids in the neighborhood."

  Those were kids... not police officers. However if you want to do this we can. I was in Bethel and assigned to a congregation in Flatbush. Same thing happened there. I lived the first 9 years of my life in North Carolina. Family moved back to the North because of prejudice.

  I now live in an upper-class neighborhood in Florida where we are the only black family. It happens here as well. If you have read any of my previous posts. I have brothers and sister in-laws from another country who felt that Black Americans always complain about things like this. They are both upper-class families living in an upper-class neighborhood outside the capitol. After being here for a number of years they have also experienced this and remarked how they were extremely wrong.

  So regardless of it being Newark, Brooklyn upper class neighborhoods in Florida or suburbs outside of DC or lower class inter-racial cities in NC it has happened. Family members from the West-Indies who moved to this country and have lived in Chicago and suburbs outside the capitol it has happened.

  So the point here is that it doesn't matter. Discrimination is there regardless of ones station in life. There is no way to explain to your child that things are fair. There is no explaining to her friends why her dad was pulled over in front of his own home because the officer did not believe he lived in his home etc... etc...

  We just learn to deal with it. However once people start getting hurt things kind of change
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  McKinney Texas pool party?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. social
  2. current

  so today i was asked my thoughts on the pool party incident in mcminney, texas.

  my response: it shows a clash of expectations.

  i saw police officers who expected citizens to listen to and follow instructions.

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  paulmolark

  "Officers are citizens, and also public servants."

  Not in the USofA

  Officers are demi-gods in the united states along with former military veterans. In the eyes of the 40 - 80 year olds they are to be praised regardless of their actions. Especially in the Southern States and the Mid-West
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  McKinney Texas pool party?

  by Marvin Shilmer in

  1. social
  2. current

  so today i was asked my thoughts on the pool party incident in mcminney, texas.

  my response: it shows a clash of expectations.

  i saw police officers who expected citizens to listen to and follow instructions.

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  paulmolark

  Ten years let me start by saying I am not being anal here or start a fight. I assume you came from a police district where the officers did their job.

  I saw literally... Not an exaggeration of instances of multiple police violating people. It happened to me on 3 occasions my dad twice my friend who were jw's as well.

  i watch my friends father a ministerial servant and 4 other men get completely violated on his own porch because the officer said he had drugs. 2 went in their home turned things over and acted completely out of order. They came outside and after all this and grabbed this man by his throat and acted as if he would punch him... Drew his hand back and laughed and walked away.

  Everyone sat there feeling so sorry he was emasculated but since most had been through similar life went back to normal and things continued.

  this was Newark New Jersey. The Italian police preyed on the black community this way. The stories could go on and on. So generally when people make the argument that if you comply all goes all I know better.
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  How do you distinguish Americans?

  by paulmolark in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igk4xvzwocw.

  apparently americans are all chubby, baggy clothes wearing optimistic fast food eaters.

  who knew.

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  paulmolark

  Boc I don't eat fast food either. I can be very loud at times though. One thing I do appreciate about Americans is that GENERALLY speaking we care about our teeth lol.
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  How do you distinguish Americans?

  by paulmolark in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igk4xvzwocw.

  apparently americans are all chubby, baggy clothes wearing optimistic fast food eaters.

  who knew.

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  paulmolark

  I think you are right about that. I have friends in London and when I was a JW I had JW friends there as well.

  They definitely were not as strict as they are in the U.S. There was this real desire to avoid service when I was there and when they would visit they had NOOOOOO desire to do anything that involved a kingdom hall.
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  Richard Dawkins espouses Militant Atheism: "Mock them, Ridicule them." Attack Religious People with Insults!

  by MagicMItchJensen in

  1. watchtower
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  richard dawkins has said frequently if we don't agree with religious or spiritual people we need to "insult them!

  " tell their their out of their "fucking gourds!

  " and make sure you really show them how stupid they are for believing in something they can't prove!".

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  paulmolark

  Is he the one that said something about "mild pedophilia"???
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  How do you distinguish Americans?

  by paulmolark in

  1. social
  2. humour

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igk4xvzwocw.

  apparently americans are all chubby, baggy clothes wearing optimistic fast food eaters.

  who knew.

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  paulmolark

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igk4XvzwOCw

  Apparently Americans are all chubby, baggy clothes wearing optimistic fast food eaters. Who knew
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  Richard Dawkins espouses Militant Atheism: "Mock them, Ridicule them." Attack Religious People with Insults!

  by MagicMItchJensen in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  richard dawkins has said frequently if we don't agree with religious or spiritual people we need to "insult them!

  " tell their their out of their "fucking gourds!

  " and make sure you really show them how stupid they are for believing in something they can't prove!".

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  paulmolark

  What is funny is the men of his age range who have abandon the church see him as their new GOD. Then spend just as much time quoting Dawkins now as they did quoting scripture. People need something to follow. I am an atheist, I get annoyed by religion as much as anyone else. However, I can't spend my time being smug and snarky all the time.

  "My question though is his offer to attack religious people and insult them is very dangerous. Why would he want people to insult others who are radicals or zealots."

  Do you think Dawkins sans protection would walk into a Mosque and say these things? A BAPTIST CHURCH? Do you think most people who are intelligent would walk up to someone and say, "You are out of your fucking gourd?" No... this frail old half-dead fucked would get beat the fuck down. However, he will encourage his disciples to do it because it makes him seem cool.