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Black Lives Matter Thread 4
TheySlashThem
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and then selling that information to the police! whoopsie!
I was just remarking that, at least for me, the topic was never covered in school.
Also fuck Ted Cruz, just in general.
Like locally my reserve is in a decades long fight to regain land that was illegally taken from it over the past three centuries. This is based, of course, on the written decree of the king of France setting the boundaries around our territory because that is what "counts" in the colonizer rules.
yeah they make it a point to not teach it in schools
I am both surprised and not at all surprised that the flimsy declaration of a democratically decapitated king is still being used to hem in First Nations people in this day and age.
It's great for other nations in Oklahoma, but the bigger impact to tribes outside of Oklahoma is kinda "preventative care."
Like, if Oklahoma's argument had succeeded, that you can pretend a treaty doesn't exist and then it doesn't, that would've been terrible for tribal sovereignty nationwide. This decision at least affirms that treaties don't have expiration dates.
That says June 8, not July 8.
naw it was his great-grandad and the thing is we're trying to get *up* to what Louis XIV set aside because this is what we can prove is rightfully ours in writing.
Think the current result is we're being offered crown land elsewhere because, well, the original area in question has several large white towns on it.
This is of course not talking about the various surveying scams that sliced down the reserve on the "official" borders bit by bit.
Between this and the rampant abuse by Twitch partners that they seem to have known all about, Twitch has been showing its whole ass lately
It's not that they're just morally bankrupt, but the sheer extent of just how tone-deaf and out of touch they are is absolutely staggering. Especially for a platform that is 100% about image and presentation!
I would take the most pessimistic view possible and say an Amazon owned business like Twitch excluding Black creators was deliberate
Twitch is mostly a bunch of shut-in nerds who suddenly found themselves running one of the biggest companies in the world ha ha whoops how do we do this what's going on oh god
Which is not an excuse, but I think it means stupid shit is just that: stupid. Not malicious.
Which hopefully means this is at least a learning experience for them, but my god, the idiocy.
in my experience it is basically impossible to get someone to just abstractly think themselves into leftism, they need to have skin in the game, to see how what you're talking about affects them, and actually fits with the values they already hold
It is surely an uphill battle.
Also, based on my experience, never underestimate the fact that people what to think for themselves, or at least feel like they do. They are usually against being to their ideas are wrong, cause those are their ideas and that would mean they were wrong.
At least some part of your brain has to be going "Wait hold up, why aren't you asking a black person to be in your black streamer showcase?"
I mean I know the answer is because it spreads awareness of their channel which = $$$, but still.
I imagine the pitch was more "do you want to show support", rather than "do you want to represent"
Cop with the gloves is so clearly trying to hide his badge from the camera.
That said, there are certainly inroads to getting them to have that skin in the game. I don't know what those might necessarily be for this friend of yours, but it is possible.
In terms of concrete resources, I'd probably recommend going straight to the source, at least to start. The Black Lives Matter website covers a lot of their basic tenets, 8toabolition.com covers their shit pretty well, that sort of thing.
See also: Space Force.
This is the guy from that meme youtube comment.
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Point out the story of the cop dragged to the asylum by his fellow officers for investigating corruption.
Explain dudes that do that to their own will be even less gentle and honorable to people outside their cohort, like George Floyd
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I've heard some good things about people who walk folks through redlining managing to start bursting the bubble. It's something that should, so obviously, be illegal that finding out about it sets a person to spin a bit. Then just, "so, if you rent your entire life, how do you build up a nest egg?" And you can crack through into helping them understand what institutionalized racism is and how it carries over into today
SPD is corrupt top to bottom. It's too bad our city council is too feckless and timid to do anything about it!