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Ben Stein: Michael Brown 'Wasn't Unarmed. He Was Armed With His Incredibly Strong, Scary Self'
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Wednesday, 8/27/2014 12:14 pm
In an interview with Newsmaxs Steve Malzberg yesterday, conservative pundit Ben Stein insisted that Michael Brown, the black teenager who was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, wasnt unarmed because he was armed with his incredibly strong, scary self. The idea of calling this poor man unarmed when he was six-foot-four, 300 pounds, full of muscles, apparently from what I read in the New York Times on marijuana, to call him unarmed is like calling Sonny Liston unarmed or Cassius Clay unarmed, Stein said.
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JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)... way to say really stupid things.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)So any scary black man, the bigger the scarier, is "armed" at all times....can all the Ben Stein racists and fools of the world shoot them dead in the streets?
Stein is a sick man
Orrex
(63,185 posts)Lesson learned.
Iggo
(47,545 posts)Come on...
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Jeezus, I'm the most straightedge drug-free person on DU and that sounds fucking idiotic even to me! "On marijuana" my ass.
bluesbassman
(19,366 posts)Unfortunately those legs didn't allow him to escape being executed.
Fuck Ben Stein.
AZ Mike
(468 posts)So this begs the question of what are the height/weight parameters that differentiate between armed and unarmed?
If I am 5'3"/300 lbs am I unarmed or armed?
If I am 6'6"/170 lbs am I unarmed or armed?
If I am tall and heavy I must be automatically armed and my death would be just?
If I am short and lightweight I must be automatically unarmed and my death would be unjust?
Just where is the line drawn on body proportions relative to scariness?
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Check the skin tone chart...
lpbk2713
(42,750 posts)I wish he would just go away and stay there.
TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)Terrifying.
All respect to Michael Brown, I'm just pointing out that there is a very different way of characterizing this young man, depending on who is doing it and what their agenda is. I hope this doesn't come across as insensitive and people can see the point I am making.
RIP Michael Brown
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)Iggo
(47,545 posts)Johonny
(20,827 posts)know that he did. Ben Stein living in the bigot's fictitious past.
Iggo
(47,545 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,157 posts)Dumbass.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)underpants
(182,717 posts)but they still won't come out from under the rock they have hiding under
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Sonny Liston?
"Cassius Clay"?
Michael Brown?
So as far as Ben Stein is concerned, big black men must always be considered "armed" even when they are not.