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Protesters Surround KKK Gathering In Charlottesville
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Mammoth Jones
Member
America. Working as intended.
I think this is what he is talking about.
Scroll down to the Evilore post.
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?p=239047632&highlight=open#post239047632
Big Baybee
Member
Facts have been presented to you. Has your mind changed? I see you in every thread even somewhat involving police. What have you learned from your interactions with multiple posters? Because you still jump in with the same rhetoric every time.
Metalingus5150
Member
FEW?!
my que ques are still on pizza's inbox.
D'ultimate
Member
I disagree with just everything you've said up to here but you're absolutely on point about this. This is for both gaming and the off-topic sides.
I didn't know what happened to Bish until now, so some good did come out of your BS. Kudos.
cr0w
Old Member
Bullshit.
He gave me six months shortly after the election for simply disagreeing with someone who was openly fanning the flames of hysteria. My ban message was simply 'well done'. It was later ruled completely out of line and unfounded. He was out of control.
Just because someone uses their power to turn a forum into a place where opinions you don't personally like are silenced immediately doesn't mean they were doing a good job. It means they were abusing their power. Funny how that's okay when one person you agree with does it, but fascist when someone you don't does the same thing.
PataHikari
Banned
Basically cops, like most authoritarian tough guys, are giant whiny babies who can't take any criticism.
Annual reminder that there are no good cops.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
4 pages of #notallcops in response to a KKK rally having a police escort......
BrutishMrFish
Member
I guess more discussion is bound to happen when accounts that post racism and sexism last longer than they used to, if anything happens to them at all.
Oh wow. I wonder if there's a way to tell if a former ban of yours was one of these. I'll miss Bish's taking a lawnmower through some of the more disgusting threads we've had.
theCalamity
Member
This is the crux of it. And they have a huge persecution complex. Basically, if there isn't any praise, it is anti-cop.
I think for you, you think you are standing up for what you believe is reasoned debate.
I think for others, you aren't a racist, but are racist enabling, because for them you lack the ability to understand what they feel are truths about policing in the United States, because the facts are not presented in a manner to your liking
Me personally? I think you're probably a libertarian or something, but I don't have enough to go off this thread to develop an opinion about you.
Conciliator
Banned
put all cop wives in jail for being cop lovers, thats what i think
Any other Charlottesville GAFers? I live here.
It's a small town where changes to these statues/parks were big headlines for a while. This KKK gathering was well known in advance and there was no hope for them coming in and not getting a piece of this community's mind.
It's a very liberal place. Even if some of the people who showed up to be pro-KKK were from near here, they are not at all representative of who you'll meet if you walk around town.
It's a small town where changes to these statues/parks were big headlines for a while. This KKK gathering was well known in advance and there was no hope for them coming in and not getting a piece of this community's mind.
It's a very liberal place. Even if some of the people who showed up to be pro-KKK were from near here, they are not at all representative of who you'll meet if you walk around town.
I know I've done like 40 stupid things since he left that he probably would've banned me for
Miss you Bish 
You're just not looking at things from both sides. If a police officer is racist and an unarmed person is a minority, then of course the officer is going to shoot them. If fewer people were minorities they probably wouldn't get shot.....as often.
Bish would ban anyone he disagreed with.
Yeah, it doesn't look good for the police, but protestors weren't letting the KKK leave when they wanted to. We're the police supposed to let an angry mob destroy them?
No idealistic response please.
The KKK baited people. Despite being racist shitbags police are sworn to uphold the law, even if it's against their best interests. Maybe this particular force wasn't infiltrated by white supremacists, but now detractors have his as ammunition to say they were right. How can the police win in this particular situation?
Yup. This is as close to a practical mission statement as our country gets.
The people he disagreed with were 98.4% of the time Gamergators and racists.
Yaphett Kotto
Member
Need to collect these receipts for whenever there is another BLM protest or something of that nature.
I know someone who, when I met them was a teacher and pretty compassionate and progressive. She married a cop, and she's still a nice person, but holy shit she's gone full in on that Blue Lives Matter stuff. I can understand why, it probably sucks to think that people are gunning for your loved one just because of what he does for a living. But I think its also closed her mind off to why there is a "backlash" against law enforcement to begin with.
I use backlash in quotes, because I think its just people being exposed to the truths due to omnipresent recording devices, that they can't dismiss as simple anecdotal testimonies.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Funny how that's rarely said while they're gunning down black people on a daily basis for even the most minor of offenses. Like staring...sitting...walking....complying...breathing etc., and yea I don't give a fuck about the free speech of the KKK of listening to "both sides" of why the police constantly gun down POC or entertaining the blue lives matter shit.
The police didn't get into the middle of a clash after standing on the sidelines.
They escorted them to and fro in the beginning.
Oh shit. Will he ever clarify if that's Bish or not? (Who else could it be tho, I guess)
Well that's because this event was known for awhile, as someone else pointed out. Have you read the full article in the OP?
Maybe minorities should try not being Minorities
Side note, a Klan man with dreadlocks
There's no doubt some white power 'literature' kicking around somewhere that lists dreadlocks as a white invention.
D'ultimate
Member
Or Pro Xbox and perceived anti Sony during the launch of their respective systems. Basically turning the gaming side into a Pro Sony utopia and what I feel is responsible for the majority negative opinion GAF receives on the internet. It can cut both ways.
It hasn't full recovered yet but it's much better than it was
Side note, a Klan man with dreadlocks
Exactly! We've solved it everyone! Me and Slay fixed the whole thing!
Cops are just another gang, the most organised and dangerous in America. Their attitudes and treatment of minorities and civilians in general are disgusting and terrifying. Since
So many places seem unwilling to deal with the problem, you can't blame people for saying fuck the police.
But bish was a terrible admin. Angry, snide, and prone to going on ridiculous ban rampages on some "I had a shitty day" power trip. gaf is a vastly better place without him.
So many places seem unwilling to deal with the problem, you can't blame people for saying fuck the police.
But bish was a terrible admin. Angry, snide, and prone to going on ridiculous ban rampages on some "I had a shitty day" power trip. gaf is a vastly better place without him.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Major respect for this.
Jesus the person admits it helped them and was a positive thing and you respond with that?
Some people can't help but be contrarian just to be contrarian. Filling some kind of emotional void or something.
That TV show Vikings made it popular for supremacists to have ratty braids and dreadlocks.
I sure indeedly did. The post was meant to correct your- unintentional or otherwise- framing of this as the police heroically jumping to the aid of the Klan when they tried to leave.
When the full picture is that the police were always there, on the Klan's side, escorting them around, and it was only until the end of the event when things got heated and- as a consequence of already being there- got in place to shield the Klan.
Regardless, I just want everyone to be on the same page. The police didn't suddenly and reflexively rise up to the occasion of protecting human beings about to be ripped apart. They were always there as the Klan's blue shield, and that's the part people have contention with.
EDIT: Do we have actual confirmed knowledge of bishop's apparent ban waves?
Oh God, that and the runes. I'd hate to have my show be popular among racists like that.
Thank you
Yeah, I go to a gun range at least once a week, and so many people think they are damned Viking Warriors now, Odin patches, Mjolnir patches, anything Nordic patches and they've got tickets to Valhalla.
Literal patches that say "One Ticket to Valhalla"
But, I wear Notorious RBG shirts to the range, so I'm guilty of trolling myself.
That's an actual shirt? Awesome.
Imperfected
Member
Which doesn't even make sense, because in records from England during the Viking invasions the English were very vocal about how the Vikings were big on combs and mirrors and generally kind of pretty.
Shoot. This is like challenging my worldview right now. I didn't even realize that was going on post-election. Sure it seemed like everybody was going through emotional trauma but I had no idea it got that bad.
Oh that's odd, I expected more rationality and common sense out of the Ku Klux Klan
Look I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, I stand by my opinion of bish, but I have to admit to myself I have had, since childhood, a pretty serious aversion to anyone in a position of authority, especially authority that is abused, unearned, or undeserved. My opinions of bish and the moderation team is biased as a result.
But I still maintain he was a fuckboy.
This is good stuff.
As long as violence didn't break out, or any rights violated, then I don't have any problem with it. And it seems the police escort was there so the KKK shitheads could leave the park. So whatevs.
Ah, I figured this was the case when I read EV's post a while back.
As long as violence didn't break out, or any rights violated, then I don't have any problem with it. And it seems the police escort was there so the KKK shitheads could leave the park. So whatevs.
Ah, I figured this was the case when I read EV's post a while back.
I attended a focus group that talked about mental health and police approach to responding to distress, and I brought up the fact that even in the face of civil lawsuits that cost taxpayers money, there's still no reform. The biggest incentive in the US is money and even that isn't a big enough motivation for police to change their practices.
Police have facilitated their own reputation and there is no other side to argue.
I applaud these protestors because the mayor's suggestion to ignore racism emboldens them. Harassment and racial abuse aren't curbed by ignoring them.
I have to agree. This sent a very strong message that the klan isn't welcome there. A right to assemble is one thing, being part of an organization that murdered and lynched African Americans, you better be ready for a bit of pushback.
For me, I'm just so puzzled by those who bring up us vs them and even in the face of facts, still hold on to certain notions that are contrary to reality. I don't understand that mindset.
Police have facilitated their own reputation and there is no other side to argue.
I applaud these protestors because the mayor's suggestion to ignore racism emboldens them. Harassment and racial abuse aren't curbed by ignoring them.
I have to agree. This sent a very strong message that the klan isn't welcome there. A right to assemble is one thing, being part of an organization that murdered and lynched African Americans, you better be ready for a bit of pushback.
For me, I'm just so puzzled by those who bring up us vs them and even in the face of facts, still hold on to certain notions that are contrary to reality. I don't understand that mindset.
Frozenprince
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