That joke’s not about black people, it’s about liberal guilt. Most of the fucking LA looters I saw photos of weren’t black anyway.
That Chappelle piece is great.
Okay, good. I thought you had crossed over to the other side. 
You’ve posted some cool stuff on this thread, but the sentence you wrote above the clip changed the meaning. But my post wasn’t just for you. There’s many on this board and this city whose support of BLM has surprised, tickled and heartened me. But there are a few I thought were friends who have posted some things and liked some things that are really disheartening.
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To me, the Annie Hall clip parodies exactly the same kind of bizarre liberal-guilt mindset behind Silverton and Krikorian’s “what’s a little looting compared with systemic racism?”
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It is unfortunate that you have to see viewpoints of people that aren’t so open-minded like you.
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You ignored the hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters in the US and decried everyone as “them all, looting.”
You also ignore the many documented cases of journalists and peaceful protesters being attacked by the police by joking about “the cops that are so brutal!”
You could say you were being hyperbolic but now you reply with a “poor me, I’m not as advanced as you, you’re such a good person” post so it seems like you really don’t care.
Have you actually been to a protest? They’re still going on
A couple of months ago, before your self-imposed timeout, you moaned about how we’re listening to too many scientists and not enough economists and acted like since the coronavirus doesn’t seem to affect you directly why should anyone else care.
You got called out then and TheCookie called you out the other day. Get over yourself
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Thank you @butteredwaffles! 
As someone else posted, it’s exhausting having to explain this shit all the time.
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Yeah, I always loved that scene and love the dad. But I had just finished watching I Am Not Your Negro - a documentary based on an unfinished James Baldwin manuscript. There’s a part about movie depictions seeming lighthearted and fun, but do a lot to shape opinions of people of color. Now, if those movies were all done by whites and a lot of them back-in-the-day viewed blacks in the same light as Alkiegourmand it ain’t gonna’ be good.
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I did not equate protesters to looters. I thought the protestors in LA were generally well-behaved.
I disagreed with TheCookie’s position that looting should be condoned. I’m confident the vast majority of Americans would agree with me.
I agree that violence and racism are pervasive problems in American police departments that should be fixed. I also think most police officers are good people and it is bigoted and cruel to attribute the actions of individual police officers to all police officers.
I have endeavored to eat at more black-owned businesses because I believe that is the best way to support black people.
I do not support protests because I think they spread coronavirus. I also believe people should engage in more dialogue and less chanting.
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TheCookie is not telling you to condone anything. I am expressing my own feelings… and I’m sure many people don’t agree. Besides, you shouldn’t be defensive - when I mentioned my “friends” that didn’t include you.
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That’s why it’s both systematic AND institutional problem which is the whole point of these protests…to get wholesale changes. Bad actions by the individual police officers is a direct symptom of said problems.
You do have a point on the former, but not the latter. How many years and decades have the people called for more accountability in policing? Where were the dialogues then? All we had were “tough-on-crime” politicians trying to one up each other by instituting even more problematic policing tactics like stop-and-frisk specifically targeting minorities and thus exasperated these problems. It wasn’t until there were widespread protests that we finally got the dialogue going.
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And for the record TheCookie loves her white brothers and sisters and doesn’t hate cops. I recently made a big pot of Chili for a potluck my ‘hood was doing for our local police station. Although, my husband jokingly wondered if they saw it as a hostile act because I accidentally made it super spicy. 
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Did you even catch yourself up on this thread before adding your inanity?
You added a sarcastic comment under TheCookie discussing systemic racism and how more and more people who weren’t previously affected are waking up and promoting social change after viewing video of the suffocation of George Floyd.
I can respect, in standalone, your comment being directed at the looters only, but in context, especially considering this thread was revived only a few days, it just seems like you’re trolling.
Where is TheCookie condoning looting?
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I read “them all” as referring to looters in a photograph or web video or TV news broadcast, something like this one only with cops standing by doing nothing
Frank Zappa wrote a song about that 55 years ago.
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Yeah for me the tone and timing + response ruined the comment.
The cops were brutal. I’ve been at protests in the past where the cops are brutal. Where they use looters as an excuse to attack everyone.
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Yeah, being sarcastic about police brutality like it’s an overblown myth - when we’re watching people die on the street - is not having a difference of opinion. It’s being a creep.
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It looks like a few posts were removed and I realize this is at moderator discretion, but I believe these discussions are important - even if they aren’t pretty. It’s one thing if a topic needs to be locked. It’s another to delete what people are saying entirely. Hope we can consider bringing these posts back.
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