Polls: Society & Politics

Ok so I’ve been going over a college us history book because I’m bored and I just learned today that the word picnic was actually from the slavery days which mans “pic a N word” (the racial slur). So apparently picnics were done when slavery was a thing and people would gather around the slave and lynch things at them and torture them. I just thought this was interesting that they don’t teach us this in school and we use the word everyday as a mundane fun family gathering when it’s actually very disturbing. Did anyone know this orrrr, this happened between 1862-1892

Does what is happening now REALLY look different from PRE nazi Germany... Little by little rights are stripped under the guise of “ protecting the people from outside agitators”?

Who protects the people from their “ protectors... And where do we go from here?

I’m genuinely interested to hear what you all are thinking. It’s not meant to be sarcastic.

Thank You🌺

Recent examples of arbitrary and extreme, police brutality.



1 D. C. Monday Lafayette park evening

“The Washington Post reports U. S. Attorney General William Barr personally ordered police to beat and tear-gas peaceful protesters gathered near the White House Monday in order to clear a path for President Donald Trump to walk to the nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church, where Trump posed for photos holding a Bible. Among the hundreds of people tear-gassed was the former assistant rector of St. John’s. President Trump visited the Saint John Paul II National Shrine on Tuesday, sparking a new round of criticism from religious leaders. Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory said Trump’s visit at this time was “baffling and reprehensible.”

2 ATLANTA Saturday

Arrest warrants have been issued for six Atlanta police officers after they tased two Black college students and dragged them from their car for allegedly violating the city’s curfew Saturday night. One officer was filmed smashing the window of the car. Another slashed the car’s tires. Two of the officers have already been fired. The victims were 20-year-old Spelman College student Taniyah Pilgrim and 22-year-old Morehouse College student Messiah Young, who suffered a fractured wrist and needed 24 stitches.

3 D. C. Monday

“... Monday’s peaceful protest outside the White House. Seven Network reporter Amelia Brace was clubbed, tear-gassed and shot with rubber-coated bullets while her camera operator, Tim Myers, was hit with a riot shield and punched in the face in a live broadcast that aired across Australia.

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I just found out a few hours ago basically that we find ourselves more attractive than we are like we're off 1-2 points out of 10 usually except for attractive people or ugly people (by the way ugly people think they're cute apparently. 2-4 points more).

And I'm having a mini existential crisis cos now I'm clueless about how I look so, I don't know a bit obssessed with this now. hope that I'm actually pretty. but I really could be average or maybe busted. by the way how attractive do y'all see yourselves in the mirror vs pics?

for me 7 in the mirror. in pics depends but usually like a 6. apparently pics according to science are a lot more accurate (or even extremely accurate if my memory is right), and that's why you don't like them as much.

a few linkies here:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-are-less-beautiful-than-you-think/ (one of the fast lay person thing)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5305893_Mirror_Mirror_on_the_Wall_Enhancement_in_Self-Recognition (a full study on how we see ourselves as more attractive)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12631

(the whole study on how unattractive people see themselves as cute. but also about how attractive people see themselves as a bit uglier, and on a lot of other stuff related)

Commits over 50% of all homicides
90% of interacial attacks between whites and blacks.
The highest rate of R@pe.
Highest rate of assault.
Homicide of thousands of other blacks annually.
Highest hate crime rate.
Over 33% of police killings.

"LGBTQ advocates are calling for a full investigation and accountability into the shooting death of a black trans man by a police officer in Tallahassee, Florida, last week.

The Tallahassee Police Department said an officer was responding to a deadly stabbing incident on May 27 when they came across Tony McDade, who matched the description of the stabbing suspect, in the area. McDade allegedly pointed a gun at the officer, and the officer fatally shot him, Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said in a press briefing following the shooting...

His death -- two days after George Floyd's while in police custody -- has sparked an outcry from advocacy groups."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/lgbtq-community-calls-justice-black-trans-man-shot/story?id=71022981

I'm mostly curious to hear from the advocates who are crying out against this, because I agree that police brutality is a problem, but this specific situation sounds to me like the cop was just defending himself. Are these advocates not aware of the backstory? Or is there something missing from the story that these advocates know & that I don't?