It kind of added up

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Actually, the problem is you make statements without realizing what they mean. And when I seek clarification you get very upset.

What is the culpability that both parties bear?

The tension that exists now. The disconnect - the lack of communication. The hostility, anger & racial division.

It's a simple concept, even for your simple mind.

Trust me: you're a very stupid person. You shouldn't even try to deal w/ concepts like this.

 

[Darth Omar]

Any black person who speaks out against this kind of violence is labeled a racialist huckster to these guys. When have we ever heard those words applied to whites speaking out on white violence?

Racialists hucksters and hacks introduce race into the equation when it's not necessary. If a white cop shoots a black person, racism is the motivation until proven otherwise.

By no means do they have to be black. Neither does it have to involve cops.

 

[Legion Troll]

Bark, little lapdog.

 

[Seahawk]

The tension that exists now. The disconnect - the lack of communication. The hostility, anger & racial division.

It's a simple concept, even for your simple mind.

Trust me: you're a very stupid person. You shouldn't even try to deal w/ concepts like this.

I've noticed that ever since you came to believe I am the former poster everyone talks about, you are far less polite with me. I really don't deserve that, but I can understand it since you think I'm someone else. When we first started discussing things, you thanked me for not going over the top or some such thing, basically for keeping the discussion cool, most of the time. Now, you are the one who immediately takes anything I say as an insult and then you turn around and insult me when I never meant to insult you.

If both parties are culpable, did not the white cop party start this? As you said to me in another thread, yes or no.

 

[christiefan915]

Racialists hucksters and hacks introduce race into the equation when it's not necessary. If a white cop shoots a black person, racism is the motivation until proven otherwise.

By no means do they have to be black. Neither does it have to involve cops.

While not all gun owners are racist (obviously), a growing body of research suggests that hostility to gun control is less about belief that guns are a “right” and more about white paranoia about people of color and crime.

Last year, social scientists Alexandra Filindra and Noah J. Kaplan published a study in the journal Political Behavior that found that showing pictures of black people to white people reduced white support for gun control. The effect was much stronger in white people who held higher levels of racial prejudice.

“Juxtapositions of ‘law abiding citizens’ and ‘criminals’ [are] evocative of racialized themes as crime has long been associated with blacks in the white mind,” the researchers wrote.

Gun ownership is a way of “expressing my ‘more-equal-than-others’ status in a society where egalitarianism is the norm,” Filindra told the Washington Post.

This confirms previous research, published in PLoS One in 2013 that found that the more racist a white person is, the likelier he is to own a gun.

 

[Darth Omar]

While not all gun owners are racist (obviously), a growing body of research suggests that hostility to gun control is less about belief that guns are a “right” and more about white paranoia about people of color and crime.

Last year, social scientists Alexandra Filindra and Noah J. Kaplan published a study in the journal Political Behavior that found that showing pictures of black people to white people reduced white support for gun control. The effect was much stronger in white people who held higher levels of racial prejudice.

“Juxtapositions of ‘law abiding citizens’ and ‘criminals’ [are] evocative of racialized themes as crime has long been associated with blacks in the white mind,” the researchers wrote.

Gun ownership is a way of “expressing my ‘more-equal-than-others’ status in a society where egalitarianism is the norm,” Filindra told the Washington Post.

This confirms previous research, published in PLoS One in 2013 that found that the more racist a white person is, the likelier he is to own a gun.

People typically buy guns either to hunt or as a need for protection. I have plenty of friends who just like to shoot for a hobby. In many parts of the country, particularly in urban areas, if you get robbed, chances are good it will be by a person of color. But in my particular area I'm more likely to get threatened by another white person.

Did any of your sources factor that little tidbit into their conclusions?