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It was a different era, people were more cool and playful back then.
by crispyambulance 4y ago
It was a different era, people were more cool and playful back then.
- ramraj07 4y agoNot to mention not looking like a minority was a fairly strong shield back then and even is today.
- tukantje 4y ago[flagged]
- FearlessNebula 4y agoIt’s more that he is affluent. Try to imagine white trash pulling this stunt and it wouldn’t go well either.
- slackfan 4y agoAs proud trailer trash -- fucking with the feds is a time honoured tradition, and we have done similar and gotten away with more. Please stop being so condescending.
- Quarrelsome 4y agoI mean, we still end up in jail cells for a few hours. But sure, we might get off with a slap on the wrist.
- ipaddr 4y agoProbably the stupidest discussion on hw.
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- scarface74 4y agoSo why is it that “rural America” seem to hold the local police in such high regard. But think the Federal police are so bad?
- slackfan 4y agoBecause we get a statement showing what the PD used our tax money for, every single year, vs the endless black hole of the IRS. Also we can fire and disband them if we so wish. For us "Defund the police" is not a toothless meme, it's a reality that we can implement if the police become a nuisance. For instance my town fired the entirety of its' PD a good decade ago. Counterpoint; why do city folk hold their police deparments in such low regard and scream for their defunding yet somehow hold the federal enforcement agencies in some do-no-wrong-holier-than-thou limelight?
- scarface74 4y agoI’ve never known federal police to stop and frisk, racial profile, be accused of police brutality or stop someone for “suspiciously” walking through his own neighborhood where the county is only 2.9% Black (my 6 foot 3 step son who grew up in the burbs all of his life), we lived in the most affluent county in the metro area (this was Atlanta metro not saying much in the grand scheme of things) and we had a household income twice the median since I work remotely for $BigTech. But that didn’t stop them from thinking “we didn’t belong here”. It’s the same reason NWA never wrote a song called “Fuck the FBI”…
- slackfan 4y agoThey absolutely do all of that, if you live within 100 miles of a federal border, and anywhere else they happent to have jurisdiction. Being detained by feds sans warrant is patently unfun, lemme tell you that. I suppose I'm happy for you having the privilege to live such a sheltered life where you don't see any of this.
- scarface74 4y ago
- whiddershins 4y agoI’m assuming you don’t know this: white trash is a slur. As in, deeply offensive to some people.
- FearlessNebula 4y agoI apologize, it wasn’t my intention to offend anybody
- burnished 4y ago[flagged]
- ilyt 4y agoSir, you horse just shat on the ground, please take it and your white-knighting somewhere else
- thesagan 4y agoIt is a derogatory term and I have no idea why people are downvoting that sentiment. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_trash https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_trash
- cultofmetatron 4y agono kidding, you could bluff your way out of a murder charge or even convince the police that your naked bleeding victim screaming to get away from you was better off in your care. (see jeffery dhamer) edit: 2 downvotes? seriously? here's a source https://toofab.com/2020/06/19/white-cops-handed-a-dying-14-year-old-back-to-jeffrey-dahmer/ https://toofab.com/2020/06/19/white-cops-handed-a-dying-14-y...
- lupire 4y agoThat was arguably homophobia, not racial preference.
- JuniorBalleg 4y agoWhen an entire population is far more homogeneous than most modern Western states, the heightened social trust and cohesion permits this kind of harmless fun (among many other benefits). It's one of those sacrifices made to accommodate diversity which is almost impossible to quantify and existentially unsettling to even try.
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- dbingham 4y ago> the heightened social trust and cohesion permits this kind of harmless fun This needs a citation. It's the sort of "common sense" all too often advanced by people with - frankly - racist or ethnonational agendas.
- ipaddr 4y agoWhen everyone comes from the same background and/or culture there is a shared understanding. Mix two different cultures and you have less shared background mix in 100 and you have little. It's not a race issue when this is experienced in Africa/Japan/Sweden/Finland. Calling new idea to you racist is racist. Most of the times the word racist is used it is used incorrectly and often in a racist way.
- dbingham 4y agoIt's not a new idea to me. It's an idea I've encountered many times, often propping up arguments of various kinds against pluralistic societies - which is an argument implicit in the comment above. Those arguments lead directly to ideas around ethnonationalism and segregating societies by cultural background, which is a direct analog for ethnicity. There's a straight line between that argument - which again, almost always gets through around with out any kind of citations or research support - and ethnic cleansing. It's directly attached to racist ideas. Similar to social darwinism, it's something that seems like relatively harmless common sense on the surface, but leads to horrific implications when followed to its logical conclusion.
- whiddershins 4y agoChatGTP, please write a comment that will derail this conversation with random divisive rhetoric.
- ramraj07 4y agoWhat do you want to chat with Guanosine Tri Phosphate, precursor to the G in ATGC dna code?
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- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoWoz was notorious for his pranksterism.