Posted on 07/11/2016 7:45:46 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Don't follow media narratives designed to divide us
Tragedies happen all the time, but the tragedies last week left so many of us asking more questions than there are answers.
In Louisiana, a black man was killed by white police officers while being subdued on the ground.
In Minnesota, a black man was killed by a white police officer during a routine traffic stop over a broken tail light.
In Texas, five police officers were killed by a black sniper during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Dallas.
re: “In Louisiana, a black man was killed by white police officers while being subdued on the ground.
In Minnesota, a black man was killed by a white police officer during a routine traffic stop over a broken tail light.
In Texas, five police officers were killed by a black sniper during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Dallas.”
Sorry Herm, getting one out of three right is a success only in baseball.
Alex, I believe the answer would be “What is buy more ammo?”
For now, I am engaged in civil indifference towards BLM, BAMN, The New Black Panthers, etc., etc., etc. I refuse to let it affect me to the extent that I might do something I wouldn’t ordinarily do. It’s not worth getting my name and face in the newspapers or social media, even if I wouldn’t necessarily regret it.
1. The first thing not to do ... is to call the events tragedies. A tragedy is an unfortunate, even accidental, event. What we have here is a series of outrages. Outrages provoke anger and retaliation. When we relabel them as tragic, we are smuggling in the premise that mourning, ie the yellow ribbon syndrome, and regret are the proper responses. Was the attack on Pearl Harbor deemed a tragedy?
It would be helpful if people, including Herman here and other conservatives, would stop using the term “routine traffic stop.” Every police officer knows there is no such thing. It implicitly serves the left’s narrative that traffic stops are by their nature peaceful and boring, and thereby blaming the police when dirtbags drivers do what they do, while, again, every cop knows the ominous feeling attending every such encounter with a stranger, and the job of determining what weapons are at his command and what the hands are doing. Add one or more passengers, and the sense of impending doom advances yet closer.
In the Minnesota one, I read that the officer before he approached the car, said into his car Mike that he thought they matched the description of the armed robbery suspects. That does present a little different picture than pulled over for a busted taillight.
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