The Shooting Gallery: Police Violence MEGATHREAD

[garbon]

So if I were to participate by taking a photo of myself flipping the camera off with a 40 in my lap and then a picture of my graduation day from college - would I be "living the stereotype?"

You'd certainly appear to be doing so.  But why would you do that?

Because I felt like flipping the camera off and drinking a 40?

[garbon]

Besides really, should the existence of stereotypes choose how one feels like living?

May be just a personal preference, but yeah I think it's generally a good idea to try to avoid negatively stereotypical habits.  For example, I grew up in Appalachia and have tried to avoid those related stereotypes.

Ah so it is a personal worry of looking like a hick. Understandable.

[garbon]

Well, of course. The point of me posting that was to show that the "stereotype" bit by derspiess was ridiculous.

I don't see how it relates.

Why did he have to go around acting like such a fairy?

[derspiess]

Why did he have to go around acting like such a fairy?

Dunno.

[Valmy]

Man this Fergusen stuff is off the hook.  This is like 1960s stuff.

[CountDeMoney]

No shit.  Locked up reporters from the Washington Post and Huffington in a McDonald's for not moving fast enough when the cops told everybody to leave.
No explanation as to why the McDonald's had to be emptied.

[Martinus]

Well, of course. The point of me posting that was to show that the "stereotype" bit by derspiess was ridiculous.

I don't see how it relates.

Why did he have to go around acting like such a fairy?

Yeah, that's the same type of mentality that blames a rape victim for looking like a "slut".

That being said - and perhaps this thread is not the best one to have this discussion - I think we should draw the line somewhere when it comes to being called out on a stereotype - I don't think anyone should be completely immune to that (obviously, anything that involves violence or active persecution is right out). I just think that people who embrace a certain stereotype in order to stand out are hypocrites when they are offended or call it bullying when someone (verbally) reacts negatively to it.

[CountDeMoney]

Interesting factoid:  Ferguson is 70% black, Ferguson PD has 3 black officers out of 53.

[Martinus]

Interesting factoid:  Ferguson is 70% black, Ferguson PD has 3 black officers out of 53.

Wow, talk about the blacks not wanting to help the situation.

[Razgovory]

Interesting factoid:  Ferguson is 70% black, Ferguson PD has 3 black officers out of 53.

It's shifted a lot in recent years.  Not very long ago it was mostly white.

[Valmy]

Interesting factoid:  Ferguson is 70% black, Ferguson PD has 3 black officers out of 53.

I noticed that to.  Another weird corollary with the 60s.

But as Raz mentioned 10 years ago it was majority white.  It is just a burb of St. Louis though right?  I thought maybe it was a recipient of black flight from another area but looking at the shrinking population it looks like whitey is moving out.  Hardly any Asians or Latinos though how weird is that?

[derspiess]

Hardly any Asians or Latinos though how weird is that?

Sounds like Cincy.

[Scipio]

The state of Mississippi would like to thank Ferguson, MO, for making us look good.

[Grey Fox]

I like to tell Americans that their government is not out to get you or kill you.

Apparently, the Police feel differently.

[garbon]

The state of Mississippi would like to thank Ferguson, MO, for making us look good.

It would take a lot more than that to even make MS look okay.