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In reply to the discussion: How I know you hate the Mojave bull shark. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)30. I asked you a direct question. You are not giving me a direct answer.
I really don't want to play twenty questions.
I just want to know if you were comparing sharks to black people who have been killed in this post:
Nuclear Unicorn (16,526 posts)
How I know you hate the Mojave bull shark.
The plight of the Mojave bull shark is pretty dire. I think it's fair to say there aren't many left in the world.
But you decided to get together with your friends and watch the season premiere of Big Bang Theory. You know, the one where Leonard and Penny are having uncertainties about their relationship. You weren't hurting anybody but neither were you bringing awareness to the Mojave bull shark.
So I came into your house. I just walked in the door, marched right up to your TV, changed the station and made you watch a half-hour documentary about the endangered bull sharks of the Mojave desert.
You even offered me some of your guacamole and chips but it was the kind with the peas in it.
But now your friends are blasting me on social media as if I was somehow out-of-line. Excuse me for not living up to your expectations, Mr. "We were watching this other show." It's obvious the kind of people you hang out with. Just like it's obvious how little regard you have for this important issue.
Stop being such a hater, hater.
How I know you hate the Mojave bull shark.
The plight of the Mojave bull shark is pretty dire. I think it's fair to say there aren't many left in the world.
But you decided to get together with your friends and watch the season premiere of Big Bang Theory. You know, the one where Leonard and Penny are having uncertainties about their relationship. You weren't hurting anybody but neither were you bringing awareness to the Mojave bull shark.
So I came into your house. I just walked in the door, marched right up to your TV, changed the station and made you watch a half-hour documentary about the endangered bull sharks of the Mojave desert.
You even offered me some of your guacamole and chips but it was the kind with the peas in it.
But now your friends are blasting me on social media as if I was somehow out-of-line. Excuse me for not living up to your expectations, Mr. "We were watching this other show." It's obvious the kind of people you hang out with. Just like it's obvious how little regard you have for this important issue.
Stop being such a hater, hater.
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Ugh. I know you think you're being clever, but I think you're coming off as flippant and tone-deaf.
MADem
Aug 2015
#2
I think the OP was a dismissive allegory mocking the real urgency/angst of the #BLM protesters.
MADem
Aug 2015
#11
So you weren't really interested in the explanation you asked for more than once.
WillowTree
Aug 2015
#19
Not dismissive of the fact the polic are out of control. I have made plenty of posts about the
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#22
BLM is not the end-all, be-all expression of outrage over what has been happening.
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#25
I know many would find it convenient if they could pin #BLM to the OP but the fact remains
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2015
#43
And a politician giving a canned stump speech in public isn't friends sitting watching tv
KittyWampus
Aug 2015
#28
Seriously? You think he deserved to DIE, and his body left on the street for four and a half hours?
MADem
Aug 2015
#34
You can put me in the "Bad cop, idiotic escalation, unnecessary death, brutal and disrespectful
MADem
Aug 2015
#41
Yeah? Well you have a very nice day. Mike Brown did not have to die--bad policing killed him. nt
MADem
Aug 2015
#45
More like watching Big Bang Theory in the town square not in someone's house….
KittyWampus
Aug 2015
#27
The frickin Mojave bull shark is the reason nobody surfs anymore at Zabriskie Point
struggle4progress
Aug 2015
#33