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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 12:09 AM Oct 2014

Movement Conservatism and White Racial Paranoia Killed Michael Brown

"They are Also Destroying American Democracy"

*Research in sociology, political science, and psychology has revealed that those with “conservative” political personality types see the world in binary and simplistic terms, are intolerant of ambiguity, more afraid of social change, highly deferent to authority, and have brains that are more highly attuned to feelings of fear and threat.

Conservative authoritarians are also much more likely to be racist, prejudiced, and xenophobic. "

Conservatives’ political personality traits, media, and a predisposition towards both implicit and explicit bias animus towards non-whites is crystallized in their response to the killing of Michael Brown and other unarmed black people such as Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Jordan Davis.

The American Right-wing’s defense of those who kill black people ranges from a barbaric and instinctive impulse towards homicidal ideation (as seen by those who defend Darren Wilson and have donated money to him as a form of bounty or prize for the new age lynching of Michael Brown) to a more mundane and quotidian belief that black people are a race of criminals, and it is best for “public safety” that the police and other representatives of the state treat African-Americans in a prejudicial and unfair way."

More: http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/chaunceydevega/movement-conservatism-and-white-racial-paranoia-killed-michael-brown-they


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Movement Conservatism and White Racial Paranoia Killed Michael Brown (Original Post) damnedifIknow Oct 2014 OP
I also see the money raised as a sort of bounty. bravenak Oct 2014 #1
"a strain of movement conservatism which wants to kill “the useless eaters” damnedifIknow Oct 2014 #2
At least they stopped pretending. bravenak Oct 2014 #3
And yet they say Obama's the Nazi nt LiberalElite Oct 2014 #4
Kicked and recommended! Nailed it. Enthusiast Oct 2014 #5
Imagine if people like torture camp creators were held accountable, the impact it would have. Corruption Inc Oct 2014 #6
How is your comment related to the OP? eom. 1StrongBlackMan Oct 2014 #7
 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
1. I also see the money raised as a sort of bounty.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 12:13 AM
Oct 2014

And I notice that it is always conservatives who make excuses for anyone who kills a black person.

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
2. "a strain of movement conservatism which wants to kill “the useless eaters”
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 12:40 AM
Oct 2014

"The Nazis referred to the program’s victims as “burdensome lives” and “useless eaters.”
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/714411/T4-Program





 

Corruption Inc

(1,568 posts)
6. Imagine if people like torture camp creators were held accountable, the impact it would have.
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 03:17 PM
Oct 2014

It would send a chilling message to all the corrupt organizations that their crimes would not be tolerated.

Better just forget about it and "Look ahead".

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