White Fragility/White Fear/White Privilege/White Entitlement in one 30-second video

[StarfishSaver]

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Touré
@Toure

This may be what white fragility and white fear looks like but it’s also what white privilege and white power looks like.

Joshua Potash
@JoshuaPotash

Holy shit protesters in St. Louis were just peacefully walking by a house when this couple came out brandishing guns.

[Nevilledog]

1. That's just fucking nuts.

[GulfCoast66]

2. Also a fucking idiot who could have shot his wife.

I grew up hunting and still do. We enjoy eating game rather than factory farmed meat. Don’t own any of those black military type guns, but firearm safety is universal.

Blow up the photo and look closely. The dumb ass has his finger on the trigger! Even when about to shoot a deer my finger does not go to the trigger until I’m about ready to shoot. I know many on DU don’t have firearms and many don’t much like them much. But this is gun safety 101. And to make the situation even worse, look who the muzzle is pointed at! His fucking wife!

The world was closer than these assholes realize to having one racist take out another.

So racist and stupid. He bought that gun to fit in and feel tough.

I hate Florida’s gun laws. I want registration and limits. But under Florida law if he did that to me, and I carried a gun, which I think is crazy, I could have legally shot and killed him. You think those protesters did not fear for their life at that moment?

But because of his privilege he never gave a thought that the people he was threatening have the same rights he does. Well, on paper. In reality we all know the score.

[yardwork]

17. Thank you for this informed and informative post.

And to your last point, we are seeing numerous instances of this hypocrisy, where white people insisting on their right to bear arms freak out at the thought of black and brown people with guns. Guess what. It turns out that the Second Amendment fans have always been worried about this particular thing after all. Their racism is showing.

[bluecollar2]

3. At some point an armed liberal

Is going to shoot first and claim they did so under the protection of the "stand your ground" doctrine...

Speaking for a friend.

[hunter]

4. I'll bet his employer isn't going to like that.

Another on self-destructs.

[salin]

6. Guessing boss will be embarassed.... he and his wife own their law firm.

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@RachelRGonzalez
St. Louis, Missouri!

This is Mark and Patricia McCloskey owners of the McCloskey law center pointing guns at peaceful protestors walking past their house earlier.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Not sure Castle Doctrine applies to people walking past your home on a street or sidewalk.

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Sounds like a brandishing charge, or something that might make them lose their weapons.

Nice behavior from officers of the court.

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[Blue_true]

11. Clients will start dropping the firm. He should sell it while it still has value. nt

[Blue_true]

10. With a house like that, they look really rich. nt

[IowaGuy]

5. These clowns know nothing about how to a handle a firearm

She swung her pistol twice directly behind her husbands head and then also grabbed a hold of the barrel of his weapon.
The stupid is strong in these two.

[ismnotwasm]

8. K&R

[GemDigger]

9. Apparently they are attorneys.

[betsuni]

12. They thought the moment had finally come when the peasants were coming for their stuff.

When they could've just made sure the security system was on and hidden in the safe room like a normal millionaire.

[roamer65]

13. Felony brandishing IMO.

They are aiming to specific persons with a specific intent.

[Bonx]

14. It does appear to be clearly marked private property

[smirkymonkey]

15. That is insane!

They are insane.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. I would pay folding money to watch him shoot like that.