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Caliman73

(11,693 posts)
97. True. Thing is, who is more likely to have "connections" and resources.
Mon Apr 19, 2021, 02:01 PM
Apr 2021

I don't think that if there were a spate of police shootings of young White people in Appalachia, that we would see an outcry, but if middle class and upper middle class White kids started getting killed for no seemingly good reason, we would see things start to change.

Well that won't happen SoonerPride Apr 2021 #1
It does happen Sugarcoated Apr 2021 #119
White people, including kids, have gotten killed by cops Haggard Celine Apr 2021 #2
Of course... WarGamer Apr 2021 #44
I think it will happen...already beginning in the lower economic areas...there have Demsrule86 Apr 2021 #55
White kids/people aren't specifically profiled for their skin color, and intheflow Apr 2021 #82
Oh, thanks for the source and everything! Haggard Celine Apr 2021 #93
Wow, what a snotty response. intheflow Apr 2021 #104
Good for you. Haggard Celine Apr 2021 #106
Some people appreciate learning new things StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #112
Okay, "thank you for the information.". Happy? Haggard Celine Apr 2021 #113
Since Cuomo tied the police "reform" issue in with "gun laws," I will add Baked Potato Apr 2021 #3
Well according to Chris is was only minorities at the country and western concert on the strip. NT cinematicdiversions Apr 2021 #8
Was that a police killing? Bettie Apr 2021 #102
Many of the school shootings have happened in well to do areas JI7 Apr 2021 #12
I was working from memory, here is an up-to-date mass shooting listing: Baked Potato Apr 2021 #15
It's not really an issue of wealth . Rural whites that vote Republican JI7 Apr 2021 #16
I see your point and appreciate your discussion, thanks. Baked Potato Apr 2021 #19
No problem, there is money behind it JI7 Apr 2021 #20
White 4 and 5 year old children were killed in Newtown. onecaliberal Apr 2021 #4
He's not talking about gun violence and gun control StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #22
It is a related issue kcr Apr 2021 #98
The issue isn't limited to guns StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #101
I don't think anyone is trying to do that kcr Apr 2021 #115
Police violence is not the same as gun violence by random strangers StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #116
Once again. I'm not saying that. kcr Apr 2021 #117
You do realize the difference between a statistical standard and an aberration, yes? LanternWaste Apr 2021 #27
White kids have been killed in school shootings and we haven't done JI7 Apr 2021 #5
Yep. LisaL Apr 2021 #7
White kids killed in schools are not killed by police. intheflow Apr 2021 #105
My God this is a horrible take. cinematicdiversions Apr 2021 #6
I don't know what he wants, but what he said was awful. LisaL Apr 2021 #9
It does come off as a Swiftian policy proposal Bucky Apr 2021 #57
Wasn't he specifying police -- not mass shooters? n/t OneGrassRoot Apr 2021 #69
Possibly but even then it is a horrible take cinematicdiversions Apr 2021 #71
Speaking of tone deaf responses StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #75
white senator's kids n/t markie Apr 2021 #10
White supremacist institutions hurt white people too. White people just tend to accept it, as long WhiskeyGrinder Apr 2021 #11
K&R, sorta like crack vs opioids uponit7771 Apr 2021 #13
If so Cuomo owes thousands of dead young people and those who Hortensis Apr 2021 #14
I suggest you and others here read what he said and pay attention to what he's talking about StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #23
He is quoted as exlaiming LisaL Apr 2021 #28
Really? StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #31
So if white kids dying from gun violence did nothing to curb such violence, LisaL Apr 2021 #48
After reading through the responses to this... I can't even believe what I'm reading. MerryBlooms Apr 2021 #51
But many more white kids are killed in police shootings cinematicdiversions Apr 2021 #62
Oh, please StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #63
What makes you think more white kids are killed in police shootings? Even in raw numbers. Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #87
People sure do conflate a lot of stuff to distract here these days. +1 to what you said. n/t OneGrassRoot Apr 2021 #70
Statista-457 white people killed by cops in 2020. marie999 Apr 2021 #17
Statista - 241 black people were killed by cops in 2020. Black people are 13% of the population. Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #84
You are a very rude person. marie999 Apr 2021 #86
Lol. Hope you aren't holding your breath. And no, your post really isn't responding to what Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #88
I don't care if they kick me off, marie999 Apr 2021 #90
LOL! You are killing me here. Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #91
Wow, YOU"RE a very rude person! intheflow Apr 2021 #107
I'm not convinced that's true for one reason... Renew Deal Apr 2021 #18
I don't think that he articulated it very well. Caliman73 Apr 2021 #94
unarmed White man in his 40's shot by cop in Portland BlueLucy Apr 2021 #21
Well then that means police killings of black people is not a problem. StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #24
I think it means that police, in general... WarGamer Apr 2021 #45
If it were simply that, they'd be killing whites at the same rate they're killing Black and Brown StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #53
Apparently, waaay too many DUers can indeed intheflow Apr 2021 #108
People's true colors often come out when they least expect it StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #114
I do not see much being done even if the numbers of whites shot increase 5, 10 fold. The 2nd Celerity Apr 2021 #25
WTF is up with the responses in this thread? Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #26
Who died and made you king? LisaL Apr 2021 #29
Lol. I guess that means you disapprove of my comment. To which I would say, Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #30
Lol StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #34
That comment is in poor taste since Prince Philip just died Bucky Apr 2021 #59
What!?! ... Did the police get him? Something has to be done! Caliman73 Apr 2021 #95
Actually that'd make a pretty good spy movie Bucky Apr 2021 #110
Bravo! Caliman73 Apr 2021 #111
Grumpy? Nt USALiberal Apr 2021 #74
You're surprised StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #32
Just totally bizarre, though, that it seems accompanied by a willful misinterpretation of the OP. Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #35
IKR? StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #36
I'm white, and this seems to me to be happening more often now than I ever noticed Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #40
I don't think it's happening more often StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #42
No, I know that. I mean this hijacking of the conversations about it. What you were Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #60
+1000. White people centering this discussion on white people. intheflow Apr 2021 #109
Agree 100%. intheflow Apr 2021 #83
But Ella Baker isn't really saying the same thing kcr Apr 2021 #118
Related... True Dough Apr 2021 #33
Not really StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #37
How many of those mass shootings were cop related? None. Not Related. MerryBlooms Apr 2021 #50
Until YouTube has hundreds examples of white people filming interactions with police betsuni Apr 2021 #38
I take exception to this statement FakeNoose Apr 2021 #39
Good God. Seriously?? Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #41
Why can't each post have a "rec" button? WarGamer Apr 2021 #47
Isn't it more like C Cuomo is... electric_blue68 Apr 2021 #43
Yes! Obviously it is! And yet this thread is full of replies about "all lives matter" and Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #61
It is. He just said it in an inarticulate way. Caliman73 Apr 2021 #96
Sandy Hook Mz Pip Apr 2021 #46
Nearly every "Newspaper Headline" Mass shooting was majority white victims... WarGamer Apr 2021 #49
That's changing the subject a bit Bucky Apr 2021 #58
The police DO shoot a lot of white people BGBD Apr 2021 #52
If white people's kids were shot by police at a rate of 3 times their proportion of the population StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #54
+1, "shot by Black cops in those numbers" ... This is what Cuomo should've said but prolly doesn't uponit7771 Apr 2021 #56
Post removed Post removed Apr 2021 #65
Bullshit StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #66
K BGBD Apr 2021 #68
I thought that was true in regards to gun safety dsc Apr 2021 #64
This is not a gun safety issue StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #67
I am not saying the issues are the same dsc Apr 2021 #76
Most white people in the country aren't affected by murders of people killed in mass shootings StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #79
White people with connections or even black people with connections malaise Apr 2021 #72
True. Thing is, who is more likely to have "connections" and resources. Caliman73 Apr 2021 #97
You nailed it malaise Apr 2021 #100
White people with connections or even black people with connections malaise Apr 2021 #73
What a lot of people here don't seem to get ecstatic Apr 2021 #77
This! This damn thread has cut a big piece out of my faith in humanity. You have put a little back. Scrivener7 Apr 2021 #78
Thank you so much for this StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #81
That was articulated very well. Caliman73 Apr 2021 #99
Well said and thanks for that Bettie Apr 2021 #103
This message was self-deleted by its author ananda Apr 2021 #80
Toledo wasn't black. Treefrog Apr 2021 #85
The point is that he wasn't white StarfishSaver Apr 2021 #89
He stole it from Ice-T JustAnotherGen Apr 2021 #92
He's not wrong. It's like the opioid epidemic - drug abuse became a public health crisis Politicub Apr 2021 #120
It's also the truth kcr Apr 2021 #121
I agree - thank you for adding that point. It has gotten worse, if anything, for POC. Politicub Apr 2021 #122
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