Posted on 06/05/2020 10:44:21 AM PDT by knighthawk
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), in an interview published Wednesday, explained why she rejects the term “rioting” in describing violent protests, contending that the word is part of “negative language used far too often in a description of black people by folks who fundamentally don’t see black people the same way they see whites and others.”
Waters spoke to The Cut about her “longtime fight over the language of insurrection and unrest versus rioting” and told the outlet that the unrest in recent days brought her to reflect on “what was going on back in the day, when I was confronting Daryl Gates, starting when the police shot Eula Love, which brought me in contact with the police commission and brought me to taking a look at what was going on with police community relations” years ago.
She spoke in depth about her experience with Gates, Los Angeles’s former police chief, and explained how those events shaped her view of the “negative language” used today.
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To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, “The only thing she wouldn’t steal is a red-hot stove.”
I saw plenty of crackers rioting, too.
Hmm, how about roving bands of thieves?
Bkmk
If the shoe fits, wear it. Even if you did steal it.
I suppose we could use the word “violent” instead. Any other suggestions?
Does that mean blacks can call other blacks rioters?
Seeing as that’s ok for OTHER words blacks allegedly find offensive....
Notice when these protestors were all in Hancock Park you know who was protecting Waters and Garcetti’s mansions, the POLICE..gee Maxine, how could you afford a 6 million dollar house on a Congressional salary
That’s it Maxine. Just stick your STUPID head in the sand..and maybe your FAILED DEMOCRAT world will go away....
I prefer dirtbag criminals.
From what I can see, 95% of the people in all the crowds, in every city, are white guilt-ridden snowflake fools. Blame everything on them Max.
I drove past a very white black lives matter rally in Pennsylvania yesterday
Proof positive that polling shows the word is devastating to the Left.
We prefer the term “protesting with bricks”. Thank you.
Is Maxine an editor of the 10th Edition of the Newspeak Dictionary?
Maxine should press her face in some dough and make gorilla cookies.
-Fred Sanford
If the shoe fits.... ;-)
From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Riot:
1a: a violent public disorder
specifically : a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent
b: public violence, tumult, or disorder
Seems pretty racially-neutral to me.
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