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In reply to the discussion: There is nothing more pathetic than a bunch of white bourgie liberals spouting anti-police sentiment [View all]kcr
(15,481 posts)54. Glad you're not doing it, either.
That's one less problem to deal with.
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There is nothing more pathetic than a bunch of white bourgie liberals spouting anti-police sentiment [View all]
shaayecanaan
Dec 2014
OP
Yeah, it's a hard job. Who cares if they kill a few folks who didn't do anything to deserve it?
nomorenomore08
Dec 2014
#1
I don't think either is right. Treating the two murdered officers as the victims they are
nomorenomore08
Dec 2014
#87
Yeah, those cops have a long history of being killed with no accountability of the killer.. (no..
uponit7771
Dec 2014
#157
You say "they" like every LEO has killed someone in the line of duty. Very few ever encounter that.
Red State Rebel
Dec 2014
#146
I know the great majority never kill anyone. It just pisses me off when people act like the hazards
nomorenomore08
Dec 2014
#161
Way to much simplistic leaps to set in stone judgments and not enough dialogue and solutions.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#3
The leaps of logic and false parallels is astounding with some folks, they are amusing.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#57
Almost all the towns have police control points leading into and out of town.
Jesus Malverde
Dec 2014
#106
Fuck the police who kill innocent Black PEOPle... fUCK tHEM. We know the difference.
Cha
Dec 2014
#6
True. Even if it's getting harder and harder to make that distinction, for some of us.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2014
#10
There is a tendency to want to take white people out of the fight to make it a black vs white thing
Iggo
Dec 2014
#116
Good question. I probably fit the OP's description in some ways, but I've never trusted the cops
nomorenomore08
Dec 2014
#14
To your list of eminently sensible proposals, I would add that any officer-involved shooting that
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#37
A civilian. Not a cop, not a military man. Civilians to investigate all shootings.
PDJane
Dec 2014
#55
Cops don't have dangerous jobs when they aren't rage junkies. That's the problem.
PDJane
Dec 2014
#61
Friends have died fishing and yes I have cried. A friends son died logging and our community
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#71
So you think all Whites who are appalled at police brutality against Blacks are mere poseurs? Ever
WinkyDink
Dec 2014
#19
I, too, am pro-law enforcement. But as you say, not for what used to be rogue cops but are now
WinkyDink
Dec 2014
#111
LOL, after reading your post, I am REALLY glad you are not doing it. Clueless. nt
Logical
Dec 2014
#25
are you really telling people to sit down and shut up about police brutality and racism?
uppityperson
Dec 2014
#30
but we dont know half of what some ignorant kid brought up in post Reagan/Bush America knows
reddread
Dec 2014
#36
I'll tell you what is more pathetic: seeing an unarmed 18-year-old black man gunned down in
KingCharlemagne
Dec 2014
#41
There's little more inspiring than people of all sorts coming together to protest injustice
bhikkhu
Dec 2014
#49
I guess that I can continue to support the anti-police protests then because my white family
jwirr
Dec 2014
#51
Except, of course, people who go around on Dem websites calling people 'white bourgie liberals'.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Dec 2014
#53
talk all the bullshit you want - but most cops are still sociopaths and you know it!
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2014
#58
Real easy for those least likely to be abused, jailed, or slaughtered to be color blind.
TheKentuckian
Dec 2014
#90
I met a traveler from an antique land, who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of straw"
hatrack
Dec 2014
#133
There is. A bunch of working class whites voting against unions in order to show solidarity with
McCamy Taylor
Dec 2014
#97
limited knowledge.....tends to happen when one thinks without thinking it all through....
AuntPatsy
Dec 2014
#100
But the shooter in this case was obviously insane. In this case I ask why he was never treated
CTyankee
Dec 2014
#121
If you listen to rage against the machine the you get some cred even if you are a white liberal
Township75
Dec 2014
#123
OK - as another non-American, I'm going to say what the Americans have refrained from saying
LeftishBrit
Dec 2014
#128
There is nothing more pathetic that someone posting utter bollocks on message boards.
tenderfoot
Dec 2014
#136