Taking a knee conversations
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Swamp Yankee
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Most in this state of Massachusetts don’t want to offend anyone, keep up the good work!
I'll run with the direction I was headed, rightly or wrongly.
A black gay woman is in a fairly unique position to understand multiple fronts of societal inequality and marginalization. Organizing something like BLM isn't too far of a stretch in the realm of things that hit close to home in the larger interests of social justice.
Ahh, I thought that was gonna go a different way!
I've found as long as you're not in the city, MA is a lot less liberal than most think.
Cheers!
Many of the protesters were bussed in from other states to help bolster the narrative. This was not too long after the Zimmerman shooting in FL and the media as well as the outside agitators inflamed an already volatile situation. Rest assured anytime race baiters Sharpton or Jackson insert themselves into a situation they will fan the flames of racism. That is the only way they can survive.
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Get away from the big urban areas and you will find the regular salt of the earth people are pragmatic, sensible and conservative in their belief system and how they live their lives. Again, the wisdom of the electoral college becomes apparent in the vision the Founders possessed.
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The "witness" had some stuff that was just bizarre. Sitting in a booth at a diner and overhearing the discussion from protesters he had seen earlier on the lines about per diem and how much it was, which bus was better, where the hot spots were that the media was covering and similar.
The command from the State police to remove their vests and other protective gear so they looked less military. Really left them open to more damage if it turned violent.
I grew up away from the big urban area. I didn't really see any more or less pragmatic and sensible people than I have encountered in the various big cities I have lived in and spent time in. There are just more people crammed together. Oddly, some of the most immoral, unethical people I have encountered are from my small town childhood.
Perhaps my view is tainted by the fact that I seek these areas out and shun the big metropolitan areas.
I like both rural and urban for different reasons. I wish I could somehow have both. What I can't stand to be in are the suburbs.
Small is a very subjective word when talking about town size. I've lived in large metropolitan cities as well as the current town of less than 1000 people and places with populations in between most of my life. I'm my experience small towns have both liberal and conservative view just like large urban areas. The major difference being small towns people usually tend to lean more toward the center than the extreme. Small towns are a great place to live because community seems tighter knit and usually people will go out of their way to help each other out.
The NFL already violates the flag code in several ways, so how are CK's antics that much worse?
MallCrawlOnTons
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Not off the clock. Kids around here get in trouble at school for stuff they do outside of school.
Same with work. You can’t be smoking weed on a Friday night, return to work on Monday and think you got job security.
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Essentially, using a wrong or impropriety as justification to ignore or condone a separate wrong or impropriety is the mark of a fool. Put succinctly, two wrongs don't make a right. That and there is the obvious, if the NFL is indeed in violation of the flag code, they are not doing it in protest of socially perceived injustice. It is also their venue and they have right to treat it as they see fit. If enough folks are in disagreement to turn their money elsewhere, the violations will stop.
I've always found that the biggest difference between big city and small town folks is that they tend not to really understand each other.
There's exceptions to every rule, but my experience has been that generally small town people are usually better at managing relationships on a personal basis with other people that are more genuine. At the same time, when it comes to people far away or different, they're less likely to really be open or trusting of them, which is why you don't really find anything resembling social justice warriors outside city limits.
On the other end, city dwellers are great at being open minded and understanding of people they've never met in a lot of ways. However, when it comes to actually interacting with other people, they're less warm and less reliable. They are less pragmatic in some ways maybe (I mean, they're at least less likely to see a gun as a tool), but that additional pragmatism of rural folk is generally restricted by traditional guidelines, especially when it comes to religious stuff.
There's exceptions to every rule, but my experience has been that generally small town people are usually better at managing relationships on a personal basis with other people that are more genuine. At the same time, when it comes to people far away or different, they're less likely to really be open or trusting of them, which is why you don't really find anything resembling social justice warriors outside city limits.
On the other end, city dwellers are great at being open minded and understanding of people they've never met in a lot of ways. However, when it comes to actually interacting with other people, they're less warm and less reliable. They are less pragmatic in some ways maybe (I mean, they're at least less likely to see a gun as a tool), but that additional pragmatism of rural folk is generally restricted by traditional guidelines, especially when it comes to religious stuff.
No, I just didn’t have much time at the time and I thought @jjvw caught my thinking. I’m still swamped, but I was doing some background reading on BLM and it appeared to be another segway into a special interest groups rights type of movement, but more all-encompassing; blending all minority groups whether ethnic or moral into one pot. Seemed highly suspect rather than legitimate.
The urban folk are just as religious, just not traditional religion. That’s where they seem to be confused. Bc they don’t subscribe to a traditional religion they ASSUME without any warrant, they are not religious.
Their forebears, the Greeks, were not as ignorant.
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