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The sanctification of George Floyd: Killed by a brutal policeman does not change a man’s life from bad to good
The Critic ^ | June 21, 2020 | Theodore Dalrymple

Posted on 06/23/2020 2:12:20 PM PDT by billorites

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1 posted on 06/23/2020 2:12:20 PM PDT by billorites
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“I make a modest proposal: that it should be against the law for children under the age of 15 (say) to attend political demonstrations or rallies...”

Let’s go with a No on that one, but good luck in your futile efforts to get the law passed.


2 posted on 06/23/2020 2:16:05 PM PDT by Meatspace
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To: billorites

I suppose Trayvon Martin doesn’t deserve Saint Hood either??


3 posted on 06/23/2020 2:16:18 PM PDT by eyeamok
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Wether he was good or bad isn’t the issue.

If a cop can be that brazen, callous and careless with any life, yours doesn’t matter to him either...


4 posted on 06/23/2020 2:18:13 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: eyeamok

Only if it’s virtuous to, having gotten away, turn back and attack a guy just for being a creepy ass cracker.


5 posted on 06/23/2020 2:20:18 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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George Floyd died at the hospital. The technique used to keep him down after he resisted getting into the patrol car does not cut off his breathing. It keeps him from getting up. He was on drugs. Probably in what id called extreme stress disorder. Sorry he died but the cop did not kill him.


6 posted on 06/23/2020 2:20:40 PM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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None of this exculpates the policeman, Derek Chauvin, and no decent person would suggest that it did.

Mr. Dalrymple comes very close to doing that.

7 posted on 06/23/2020 2:20:59 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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You nail my discomfort with this piece.


8 posted on 06/23/2020 2:21:56 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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Candace Owens is so right. If I were black, I’d be ashamed that my community, egged on by a bunch of fake-ass white liberals and media, put people like this guy on the pedestal as our model.

Blacks can do much better but choose not to. Instead they call exceptional people like Condi Rice and Justice Thomas all kinds of horrible names.


9 posted on 06/23/2020 2:24:09 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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2 facts: 1) George Floyd didn’t have to die. 2)The death of George Floyd was good for the gene pool. BLM will acknowledge one but not the other. Antifa? They could care less about either.


10 posted on 06/23/2020 2:24:24 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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The sort of person who might be edified by this article will get to the fourth word and then give up.


11 posted on 06/23/2020 2:24:27 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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BLM could care less about either as well— they are Marxists, Antifa are a mix of anarchists and various sorts of radical socialists. The motives of both are purely anti-capitalist and anti-God, and stating otherwise only helps them.


12 posted on 06/23/2020 2:27:39 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: dblshot
George Floyd died at the hospital.

He was pronounced at the hospital. According to the paramedics who put him in the ambulance he was unresponsive and without a pulse. George Floyd died at the scene.

The technique used to keep him down after he resisted getting into the patrol car does not cut off his breathing.

If done improperly or for an extended period of time it does cut off breathing, which is why most police departments don't use it.

Sorry he died but the cop did not kill him.

You don't seem all that broken up about it. And the coroner has said that the officer's actions were a contributing factor to Floyd's death.

13 posted on 06/23/2020 2:38:28 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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… a cause is justified or strengthened by the use of parroting children of nine and seven?

And, of course, the spokesperson role for the environment was assumed by a Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg who evidently spent the majority of her 16 year life diligently studying the causes and effect of climate change to become the end all expert followed by a fawning media and its left wing sycophants. And no one in academic community objected!

14 posted on 06/23/2020 2:42:54 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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The mob doesn’t get to determine whether the cop was “brutal” or whether a chemical-filled Floyd died resisting arrest.


15 posted on 06/23/2020 2:44:56 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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Correct.


16 posted on 06/23/2020 2:47:47 PM PDT by deadrock (<img src="DonaldTrumpisthegreatest.jpeg" width="80%">)
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To: billorites
The phrase, totalitarian democracy

By definition, tyrants seize power on behalf of "the people."
17 posted on 06/23/2020 3:06:40 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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trayvon martin was a little punk burglar thug wannabe

so, no


18 posted on 06/23/2020 3:08:39 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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The mob doesn’t get to determine whether the cop was “brutal” or whether a chemical-filled Floyd died resisting arrest.

True. The coroner and the DA do. And they charged him with second degree murder.

19 posted on 06/23/2020 3:51:09 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: deadrock
Correct.

Alas, no.

20 posted on 06/23/2020 3:51:57 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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