Tried Jogging (Freedom In A Small Town)

[ItsjustMe]

Ahmaud Arbery

[OneGrassRoot]

1. Someone needs to do a whole list...

of these examples. They probably already have and I hope I see it. Thanks, and K & R

[KentuckyWoman]

2. Tried taking his Skittles home.

[yardwork]

8. What a beautiful child he was.

[Aristus]

3. Note to Jason Aldean and all the rednecks and hillbillies up in Squalor Holler:

I live in a small town, and we don't do that shit here. Of course, this is Western Washington, not East Bumfuck, Arkassippi. So maybe try a little civilization on for size, and clean up your smelly backwoods act.

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4. Where does a burglar carry his tools in jogging clothes...

and where does he hide the loot he's looking to steal?

Just wondering why those obviously dim bulbs didn't ask themselves those questions.

Because they were armed racists out to kill. Which is what they did.

Now the dummies are in prison for murder...even though the racist, local justice system tried to protect them by not jailing and prosecuting them. I mean there was a dead body in the street from shotgun blasts. Somebody did it.

Then the telltale video of the actual murder surfaced. The initial failure of the local, law enforcement authorities is exactly what Critical Race Theory is all about.

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critical race theory
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noun: critical race theory; plural noun: critical race theories

a set of ideas holding that racial bias is inherent in many parts of western society, especially in its legal and social institutions, on the basis of their having been primarily designed for and implemented by white people.
"I took a class in law school that examined case law through the lens of critical race theory"

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1980s: originally in discussion of US law, with reference to the experiences of African American people.
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Critical Race Theory, or CRT, is an academic and legal framework that denotes that systemic racism is part of American society — from education and housing to ...

[GP6971]

22. And your point is? nt

[Hortensis]

5. So, what is enlarging Aldean's smear on small towns and their people

supposed to further? Is the idea that Jason Aldean's hatemongering speaks truth but not enough people believe it? So, spread the "truth" as he and sympathetic bigots see it?

Maybe Fox's constant "be very afraid" messaging is neglecting small towns? Address that by spreading their unreasoned, irrational, bigotry-generated fear to those who didn't realize they needed to fear small towns? Or maybe are already hostile and need feeding?

In case it's not obvious, I don't believe this is one of our more admirable products. A tiny kernel of truth makes a great basis for giant, hurtful lies, so we need to be careful with what we do with those kernels.

[LuvLoogie]

13. Aldean appealed to the folks in counties

where trump won 60, 70, 80 percent. Lots of small towns. He just left out the word white. People like Aldean have been otherizing city dwellars for decades.

I suppose not all cops are bad, but I guess the percentages depend on whether you count the ones that look the other way.

The threat of extrajudicial vigilantism is couched in us versus them. Small town armed whites versus urban dwellars.

In Florida they yearn for the days they could use black children for alligator bait. That state has earned that broad brush, and they're doubling down.

The song berates the social justice protestors with promoting what the protestors are protesting.

Black Lives Matter. Well not in small white towns. Your message is loud and clear Mr. Aldean. Liberty and Justice for All white Christian males.

I like small towns, but a lot were sundown towns until just a few decades ago.

But Aldean is just an incel with guns and a truck probably.

[Hortensis]

15. Yes, mostly. (No to the extreme demonization stuff:

"They" don't long for the chance to rape and murder our mothers and sisters either.)

And, hey -- we have two pickups, his and hers! In GA.

Unfortunately, the "small town" dog whistle, like too many, speaks to -- is used to incite -- both sides of the horseshoe. Really hostile factionalists of any sort who're developing a habit of reacting to justifiable fear, not by being brave and focusing, but by slinging excrement and howling insults.

We need to pay more attention to what is happening and when it's part of the problem so we can refuse to leap in. The rush to see who'll push more people off the cliff everyone's running for may be fun now, but...

[LuvLoogie]

16. Well, it's a stupid song for stupid people.

I don't find it all that alarming. It's par for the course. I'm more concerned that folks like Abbott and DeSantis are implementing this sadistic fascism. It IS what it is. They are empowered by the congealed bigotry in those states. We have to be willing to hurt the feelings of those that vote for them and the like.

[Hortensis]

19. I've gotten really frightened of the insane levels of hostility, and

agree sadistic extremism -- definitely much of it fascistic leaning, that wannabe leaders like those are inciting to gain power. I think you're too nice in your description of that song, but agree it is par for people who long ago decided to let tRump decide what their limits would be, or not. Nothing new here.

According to them, we've been hurting their feelings for decades with what they see as smug moral superiority (not real, hypocritical) of Democrats and the sanctimonious, severely intolerant radicalism of illiberal "progressives."

Our problem is not that the dangerous rabbles now developed on both sides lack the will to insult each other, but that people capable of the rational responsibility needed to control the mobs eagerly racing to push each other over the cliff are still divided. Each election since 2016 a few more have come to their senses, though.

We'll all get to see what 2024 brings, and then have to live with it. I'm always hopeful. There are more of us and they're acting rabid -- we should win -- but it could make us long for what we have right now and lost.

[Bettie]

6. Breonna Taylor

tried sleeping in her own bed.

ETA: wasn't a small town..but still.

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7. Critical Race Theory illustrated. Her killer/s were never prosecuted.

[lildDemz]

12. Police procedures

were accused instead.

[ego_nation]

9. Try pulling into the wrong driveway

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/04/18/us/woman-shot-wrong-driveway-upstate-new-york/index.html

[calimary]

10. Welcome to DU, ego_nation!

When I was younger, I thought nothing could be worse than the Nixon era... until the Reagan era inflicted itself on us all... until the Bushes... and then that orange guy. God help us if that last one gets back in power.

[PatSeg]

11. Yeah, I've kind of noticed a trend

over the decades. Hmm, wonder why that could be.

The last decent republican president was Eisenhower. It's all been downhill ever since.

[brush]

17. Exactly. Ike would be a moderate Dem today.

[PatSeg]

20. Yes and he was a popular president

with both parties.

I recently read that in other first world countries, our Democratic party is viewed as conservative, not liberal. Of course, the republicans are off the chart. It took years of conditioning, but today too many people view the Democratic party and the mainstream media as "leftist", which is absurd as well as disturbing.

[soldierant]

14. God help us even more if he doesn't , as long as

they keep getting worse every time.

[GP6971]

24. For me...not much. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. In a mean world full of Jason Aldeans, be a Garth Brooks or Dolly Parton.

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