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In reply to the discussion: On Traveling to North Korea. [View all]IronLionZion
(51,465 posts)in the US one doesn't have to steal a poster or commit any crime at all to be publicly executed by our local government. Just being 12 years old and black got Tamir Rice publicly executed by our government. Being a law abiding American who told the officer he has a concealed carry permit and gun got Philando Castile publicly executed.
Freddie Gray got tossed around in a rough ride to get injuries to his spinal cord that killed him, just for owning an illegal switchblade. DUers will ALWAYS be outraged when something happens to a white Jewish man at the hands of a foreign country but fewer DUers feel outraged when it's Americans who get shot for looking like someone who might have committed some crime somewhere in the vicinity of being black.
"Those people all look alike" is the sort of punch line that ends innocent people's lives.
What would be more outrageous would be if after this, it was widely believed that white males steal stuff and any young possibly liberal white male is probably a thief until proven otherwise. Yes, it is stupid.
Or a more realistic bit of nonsense are the number of educated liberal DUers accusing Otto of being a Christian missionary when he's actually Jewish and active in Hillel and did a Birthright trip to Israel.
The US government has targeted and killed several US citizens in drone/missile strikes. I'm sure someone can come up some justification to kill American born Anwar Awlaki but what were his two kids guilty of?
Yes, I know the USA is the greatest country in the world. But every time we point a finger at someone there are 3 fingers pointing back at us.