Posted on 11/01/2015 8:12:58 AM PST by artichokegrower
Is it wrong to call someone who steals a "criminal"?
In a recent thread on NextDoor, a group of neighbors living in the Noe Valley-Glen Park area were engaged in a discussion around the city's crime and debated whether labeling a person who commits petty theft as a "criminal" is offensive.
In the site's Crime and Safety area, where residents share strategies for fighting crime, Malkia Cyril of S.F. suggests that her neighbors stop using the label because it shows lack of empathy and understanding.
Cyril pointed out that instead of calling the thief who took the bicycle from your garage a criminal, you could be more respectful and call him or her "the person who stole my bicycle."
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What is it with left-wingers that they demand everyone else in the think the way they think and do the things they do and stop doing the things they don't like doing?
On our NextDoor forum, the posters call the City Council members “thieves” and “criminals.” Is that insensitive? Would it be gentler to call them, “The people who spend the city budget on stuff I don’t care about and probably line their own pockets, too”?
Leftists love using sematics to distract from the core issue, like thieves, sodomites, pedophiles, etc. When I find that magic lantern with the genie, one of my three wishes will be that every lefty gets paid a visit by the random criminals, no matter what name those leftys used to distract from what the criminals actually do, and get a good zesty bite of that criminal’s favored crime. Every single one of them.
NextDoor really brings out the kooks.
Don’t cal thieves criminals, call them democrats.
What do these liberals call them after one of these non-criminals steals their iPhone, or some other trinket?
Anyone who calls a thief a thief must be a “thiefist”. But we should be empathetic and call such person “someone who calls a thief a thief”.
To a liberal, it’s now as evil to be a realist as it is to be a racist.
Slap them upside the head and tell them it wasn’t assault but rather a cry for help by an oppressed conservative who’s views are being marginalized because of the prevailing liberal dialectic.
Minor oversite... you left out the word handcuffed after the.
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...call them democrats who stole my hard-earned income to spend on themselves.
Words fail me.
These people are so damned stupid...they deserve every crap sandwich that comes their way.
Idiots.
Cyril pointed out that...you could be more respectful and call him or her "the person who stole my bicycle."
Well, Malkia, if that is your name, how 'bout I call them an ambulance, after I beat them to a bloody mess for being a freakin' criminal!
I just cannot understand these damn people.
I'm telling you, all those drugs, the LSD, peyote, mescaline, speed, all that crap their parents took back in the '60's, must be affecting their DNA, genes, genetic order...something..., I have never seen such stupidity coming out of any one place.
Unbelievable!
How about goniff?
My mother always used that in conjunction with scungelli, and for an added fillip, threw in an unprintable German phrase.
She prided herself on being diverse when she lived in Brooklyn.
Just feel sorry for the thief who took her rabbits. Not everyone called the police in 1920.
Mother of God. Alice of Wonderland fame, or more accurately, the Mad hatter would be right at home with these people. They are so out of touch they might as well be on another planet.
The Muslims would have a field day with these people - 100% converts and willing gang rape victims.
I though the reporter did a good job in exposing this lunacy.
“What do these liberals call them after one of these non-criminals steals their iPhone, or some other trinket?”
They thank them for calling them on their white privilege and apologize for displaying their wealth in front of the underprivileged.
If someone is stealing my stuff I won’t have empathy or understanding. What I will have is a Remington 870. and I am not afraid to use it in the interests of the thiefs “career guidance”.
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Come on! Tell us! What was the "unprintable" German phrase? Inquiring minds (with German-English dictionaries) want to know!
Regards,
That's till so offensive! How about, "the person who made off with my bicycle and never returned it?"
Regards,
I don't have much but it took 70 hour work weeks to get it. I don't have the time or the strength left to do it again.
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