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>Isn’t /r/politics completely one sided fake news to prop up the democrats??? /r/politics is how I imagine the "Two Minutes Hate" from 1984. A complete circle-

>Isn’t /r/politics completely one sided fake news to prop up the democrats??? /r/politics is how I imagine the "Two Minutes Hate" from 1984. A complete circle-jerk that has infested many of the main subreddits. /r/pics, /r/nextfuckinglevel, /r/publicfreakout are rather outposts of /r/politics these days. No wonder, when a small clique of politically aligned mods controls the major subreddits. Even /r/askhistorians joined the blackout in support of 'Black Lives Matter'. What's neutral about that?

Can_Not 6y ago
Damn, I can't believe they took a non-neutral stance on extrajudicial murder of black people. Crazy stuff.
- postphoned 6y ago
  >extrajudicial murder of black people. Thought experiment: If that were true, prisons wouldn't be full of black people as it would be more much more convenient (and economical advantageous) to extrajudicially 'murder' them, as you claim. But since reality shows, most black criminals don't die in altercations with the police, even when getting belligerent, your assertion is wrong. African Americans commit crimes at a disproportionally higher rate than any other race, therefore have more run-ins with the police and despite having a much higher tendency for violent outbursts[1], only a 2-digit number of arrets led to deaths of the arrestee and of those only an even smaller fraction could be considered "wrongful". Even the death of George Floyd is better explained by "heart-attack induced by stress and exertion while resisting the arrest while overdosing on Fentanyl" than being choked to death by racist cop, especially when the medical examiner found no signs of asphyxation. But to BLM actual facts don't matter, for them it's Black vs White, manufacturing the narrative that Black people "are being hunted down in the streets" and "extrajudicially murdered". The internalized victim-complex and tribal thinking inside the Black community leads to this dangerous reversal of cause and effect and that is also why it's unlikely the situation will improve. 'Live by sword, die by the sword', so to speak. You will be hard-pressed to find a video where white people will act like these guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQeZDE1t1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQeZDE1t1c Rap music is THE pillar of Black culture. And these artists will be the role models for all those Black adolescents. And I'm not even touching the issue the 'Black Lives Matter' org is run by Marxist ideologues to instigate a violent communist revolution in the US. /r/askhistorians should be impartial enough not to pander to a trendy movement based on a false narrative and especially not condone an org with ulterior political motives. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886912004047 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...
- spamuel 6y ago
  There are an endless number of causes one could "black out" for. But they just so happened to black out for the one with a pressure campaign and mob backing, that has intertwined itself with American national political ambitions? The emotional blackmail of this movement will probably be its undoing.
  - Can_Not 6y ago
    Imagine feeling "emotionally blackmailed" into not supporting extrajudicial murder...
- wooger 6y ago
  It is easy to support that stance. Or even perhaps just stopping extrajudicial murder by police as a whole. Go look at the official BLM list of goals - they are advocating to abolish the police, end capitalism, abolish the western nuclear family & several other far left, badly thought out, unsupportable concepts. Worse still, the same campaign has spread to the UK, unfiltered and unchanged, despite the fact that we have almost zero people killed by police outside of terrorist attacks, our police don't carry guns, and due to our government's austerity policies, they're woefully underfunded.

Can_Not 6y ago

Damn, I can't believe they took a non-neutral stance on extrajudicial murder of black people. Crazy stuff.

postphoned 6y ago
>extrajudicial murder of black people. Thought experiment: If that were true, prisons wouldn't be full of black people as it would be more much more convenient (and economical advantageous) to extrajudicially 'murder' them, as you claim. But since reality shows, most black criminals don't die in altercations with the police, even when getting belligerent, your assertion is wrong. African Americans commit crimes at a disproportionally higher rate than any other race, therefore have more run-ins with the police and despite having a much higher tendency for violent outbursts[1], only a 2-digit number of arrets led to deaths of the arrestee and of those only an even smaller fraction could be considered "wrongful". Even the death of George Floyd is better explained by "heart-attack induced by stress and exertion while resisting the arrest while overdosing on Fentanyl" than being choked to death by racist cop, especially when the medical examiner found no signs of asphyxation. But to BLM actual facts don't matter, for them it's Black vs White, manufacturing the narrative that Black people "are being hunted down in the streets" and "extrajudicially murdered". The internalized victim-complex and tribal thinking inside the Black community leads to this dangerous reversal of cause and effect and that is also why it's unlikely the situation will improve. 'Live by sword, die by the sword', so to speak. You will be hard-pressed to find a video where white people will act like these guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQeZDE1t1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiQeZDE1t1c Rap music is THE pillar of Black culture. And these artists will be the role models for all those Black adolescents. And I'm not even touching the issue the 'Black Lives Matter' org is run by Marxist ideologues to instigate a violent communist revolution in the US. /r/askhistorians should be impartial enough not to pander to a trendy movement based on a false narrative and especially not condone an org with ulterior political motives. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886912004047 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01918...
spamuel 6y ago
There are an endless number of causes one could "black out" for. But they just so happened to black out for the one with a pressure campaign and mob backing, that has intertwined itself with American national political ambitions? The emotional blackmail of this movement will probably be its undoing.
- Can_Not 6y ago
  Imagine feeling "emotionally blackmailed" into not supporting extrajudicial murder...
wooger 6y ago
It is easy to support that stance. Or even perhaps just stopping extrajudicial murder by police as a whole. Go look at the official BLM list of goals - they are advocating to abolish the police, end capitalism, abolish the western nuclear family & several other far left, badly thought out, unsupportable concepts. Worse still, the same campaign has spread to the UK, unfiltered and unchanged, despite the fact that we have almost zero people killed by police outside of terrorist attacks, our police don't carry guns, and due to our government's austerity policies, they're woefully underfunded.