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BUT WHAT IF COPS AND WHITE PEOPLE AREN'T BAD?
boblonsberry.com ^ | 06/02/2020 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 06/02/2020 5:43:30 AM PDT by shortstop

But what if I don’t believe that, as a general rule, cops are racists and white people are bad?

What if I believe that the cops are the good guys and that white people aren’t the bad guys?

Is there room in progressive America for me?

Are those opinions still expressible in a nation that once practiced free speech?

Maybe not.

Especially now in crisis-of-the-week America, as the Democrats foment and exploit crises in ever more desperate attempts to claim power in November.

They did global warming for a while, and that didn’t work. They did impeachment for a while, and that didn’t work. They did covid for a while, and that didn’t work. And now they’re trying race war.

And it’s all the Republicans’ fault.

You saw that yesterday. After Democrat protesters, rioters and looters in Democrat cities lashed out against police departments overseen by Democrat mayors, the Democrats told us it was Trump’s fault.

He’s sending the Army to kill the citizens, or something like that. You’ll have to check the network anchors’ TelePrompTers to get the exact Democrat talking points.

And as Democrat pep rallies in city after city turn into free flatscreens and sneakers for anybody with a brick, the Democrat response is to shaft the police. The nation gets fried by law breakers, and the Democrat impulse is to crack down on law enforcers.

Especially in New York.

Where the legislature, controlled by Democrats, is putting together a special session to pass criminal justice “reforms” restricting what police officers can do and opening their personnel records to public scrutiny.

Reviewing: Democrats loot, burn and pillage, and Democrats respond to that by hamstringing the police.

It’s almost like the Democratic Party is the anti-law and order party. It is the party of the streets. The streets of broken glass and burning buildings.

Which is ironic because mobs are not democratic, and governments driven by mobs are not democratic. In fact, the voice of the streets is never the voice of the people. In a Republic, under our Constitution, the voice of the people is heard at the ballot box. In a mobocracy, anybody who can burn down enough buildings gets to be in charge.

It’s the difference between the American revolution and the French revolution. Ours led to a representative government, theirs led to the Reign of Terror.

And in its desperate grab for power, the progressive movement is fine with tearing America apart, fine with destroying rule of law and fine with turning people tribally against one another.

The reality of a murderous cop in Minneapolis is exploited to advance the theory of universal white racism, the notion that members of one race are morally defective by virtue of their inescapable history and current circumstance. To be white is to be racist. To be white is to be privileged. To be white is to be the problem. Which is all crap. People are individuals, to be judged – one man said once – by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Yet the empowering bigotry of the Democratic Party is that white people, by the color of their skin, are the oppressors and occupiers of society, engaged collectively in a centuries-long conspiracy against people of color, and deserving of society’s rage and vengeance.

Which is all nothing but bigotry.

It has been decided not to eliminate bigotry in America, but to replace one bigotry with another.

Or, more correctly, another two bigotries.

Because the prejudice against police officers is the intellectual and moral equivalent of any other sort of bigotry. When you group people, and disparage those people by virtue of their membership in that group, that is bigotry – whether you group them by their sexual orientation, their religion, their race or their occupation.

Hating somebody because she wears a badge is the same thing as hating somebody because of the color of her skin. Seeing one bad cop – or a thousand bad cops – and judging all police officers as a consequence, is the same thing as seeing one bad person of a certain color – or a thousand bad people of a certain color – and judging all people of a certain color.

The Democratic Party is insidiously promoting hatred of police officers and white people. You see it every night on the evening news, and the recent riots – and much of the rhetoric of the demonstrations – promote it.

Which is an evil way to honor a murdered man.

The most recent picture of George Floyd shows him smiling and holding up a Bible.

A Bible which teaches that all men are brothers and that we should love one another.

Those are the truths that should be advanced. Applied earnestly, they will improve conduct and build bonds on both sides of the badge and on both sides of the color barrier.

We are meant to live in peace and respect, for all people, in all circumstances.

That is more important than the November election.

No party should seek to burn down the nation in order to preside over the ruins.


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The Democratic Party is insidiously promoting hatred of police officers and white people. You see it every night on the evening news, and the recent riots – and much of the rhetoric of the demonstrations – promote it.
1 posted on 06/02/2020 5:43:30 AM PDT by shortstop
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To: shortstop

yet whites keeping voting for democrats.


2 posted on 06/02/2020 5:47:15 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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To: shortstop
No party should seek to burn down the nation in order to preside over the ruins.

Time for a Game of Thrones quote: "Littlefinger would see the realm burn if he could be king of the ashes."

3 posted on 06/02/2020 5:55:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: shortstop

If you are white- BAD
If you are a cop - BAD

If you are black and a cop..too bad - BAD


4 posted on 06/02/2020 5:57:38 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: shortstop

this has fractured my family

i want nothing to do with the idiots in my family circle that think they are justified in burning down the US and detroying the lifes of innocent peple.

Here that NSA...i disavow it.

They claim they arent participating but that it should be allowed

Screw that


5 posted on 06/02/2020 6:01:08 AM PDT by RummyChick ( Yeah, it's Daily Mail. So what.)
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To: shortstop
I am in awe of the eloquence of this:

the theory of universal white racism, the notion that members of one race are morally defective by virtue of their inescapable history and current circumstance. To be white is to be racist. To be white is to be privileged. To be white is to be the problem. Which is all crap. People are individuals, to be judged – one man said once – by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Yet the empowering bigotry of the Democratic Party is that white people, by the color of their skin, are the oppressors and occupiers of society, engaged collectively in a centuries-long conspiracy against people of color, and deserving of society’s rage and vengeance.

6 posted on 06/02/2020 6:02:24 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Quando omni flunkus moritati)
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To: 2banana

“ yet whites keeping voting for democrats.”

That is because 50% of people have below average IQ. Plus any given population will have some percentage of sociopaths and psychopaths


7 posted on 06/02/2020 6:02:34 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The Democrats mantra:

Better to reign in hell than to serve in Heaven.


8 posted on 06/02/2020 6:03:13 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: shortstop

Well that’s a silly idea.


9 posted on 06/02/2020 6:06:13 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Old Sarge

The reason there are Africans in America is because their ancestors were unequal to those Africans that captured and sold them into slavery.


10 posted on 06/02/2020 6:06:32 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: shortstop
The Democratic Party is insidiously promoting hatred of police officers and white people.

With the full cooperation of the MSM. I watched cBS national news last night and you'd swear it was cops and white folk who FORCED the "peaceful protestors" to riot in the streets and loot the stores.
This morning, the pastor of the burning Saint John's church in DC was all over the different news shows claiming it was Trump who did it.
Unbelievable.
11 posted on 06/02/2020 6:09:52 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: shortstop
Well, I'm bad now.

They might end up not liking very much the new attitudes they are creating among the white majority - and the consequences that will follow.

12 posted on 06/02/2020 6:11:24 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: shortstop

Cops and White people aren’t bad. But we must be destroyed or the Left cannot take over the country again. Sheesh, can you just imagine what would be going on if Hillary were in the WH?? This chaos would be exponentially worse. But that is what the Left wants.


13 posted on 06/02/2020 6:13:50 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act'- George Orwell..?)
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To: bert

True - buried and suppressed as crimethink, but no less true.


14 posted on 06/02/2020 6:16:21 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Quando omni flunkus moritati)
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To: 2banana
yet whites keeping voting for democrats

They are being brought up to believe that they can achieve the status of "goodwhite" by betraying their people, and lots of them believe it.

15 posted on 06/02/2020 6:17:18 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: shortstop
I think it's high time for conservatives to get off this idea that we should reflexively defend police officers because they somehow reinforce our idea of a "law and order" society.

That's nonsense. An armed citizen should reinforce our idea of a "law and order" society. A police officer is emblematic of: (1) a society where crime is so rampant that a permanent police presence is needed, and/or (2) a citizenry too weak and cowardly to defend itself who see the police as nothing more than taxpayer-funded security guards.

16 posted on 06/02/2020 6:17:37 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.")
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To: shortstop

There is no reasoning with the Left now. They have been so conditioned, so programmed with their lies that there is no room for them to think independently, to consider alternatives, to question their own beliefs.

I’m thinking of the scene from A Clockwork Orange where Alex is in the chair, eyes propped open as they try to re-condition him to shun violence. This is what has happened on the Left. Years YEARS of young eyes “propped open” to receive the deceptive messages of the Left. Years of schooling, years of “experts” telling us how to raise our children, years of a political party slowly moving us ever-deeper into governmental socialism, years of the media promoting of Leftist ideas while gradually, gradually re-casting the great American story until it has become unrecognizable.


17 posted on 06/02/2020 6:22:01 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: ClearCase_guy
"Littlefinger would see the realm burn if he could be king of the ashes."

That is a line I shall use in time to come.

If there is any...

18 posted on 06/02/2020 6:24:04 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Quando omni flunkus moritati)
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To: MarDav

I stopped trying to reason with the Left years ago. It’s cost me family, friends, even jobs.


19 posted on 06/02/2020 6:26:15 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Quando omni flunkus moritati)
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To: 2banana

Mostly in places without much diversity. Trump got more of the white vote than Reagan. It was barely enough.


20 posted on 06/02/2020 6:36:22 AM PDT by cdcdawg ("Americanism, not Globalism, will be our credo." DJT 2016)
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