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MikeDamone

Where my race hustlers at? Why are the usual vocal crowd when black men are shot silent?

https://www.wfaa.com/amp/article/news/local/mike-hickman-football-shooting-funeral/287-9872fb13-d814-44f7-ad79-08e0275dbd5f

PurpleThrobber

https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1564749303322759168

Jason Whitlock has been all over this.

"The racial #metoo movement"

MikeDamone

PurpleThrobber said:

https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1564749303322759168

Jason Whitlock has been all over this.

"The racial #metoo movement"

Nailed it.

Selective outrage is selective.

RaceBannon

Duke volleyball or Duke lacrosse

The left never forgets a narrative

WestlinnDuck

How much safety do we need? I grew up standing on the hump running through the back seat leaning over my dad's shoulder so I could see where we were going. If we hit anything, I would have gone through the windshield like a rock. My kids had basic car seats. Easy to set up in the front seat, facing forward. As easy as putting them into a high chair. Toddlers could look out the window and could talk and point out the things we were seeing as we drove. Today, the expensive monstrosities are hard to set up and they are in the back seat and face backwards. Parent and toddler interaction is almost negligible. Just got done transporting the granddaughter and communication was non-existent. Just like the school shutdowns, the mental health and learning capacity of children is never considered, only the necessity of keeping them in a bubble. At age 9 I was mowing the lawn and on a summers day my parents would see me at lunch and then at 5:00. We were riding our bikes, throwing dirt clods at each other, playing workup and climbing trees in the nearby woods. Not an adult in sight. Today, that's child abuse. Had a fellow worker have his 9 year old brought home by a cop who picked her up after she had walked to the local school to play and the cop grabbed her on the way home. That was my entire neighborhood. No wonder we are turning into a nation of scared sheep.

MikeDamone

WestlinnDuck said:

How much safety do we need? I grew up standing on the hump running through the back seat leaning over my dad's shoulder so I could see where we were going. If we hit anything, I would have gone through the windshield like a rock. My kids had basic car seats. Easy to set up in the front seat, facing forward. As easy as putting them into a high chair. Toddlers could look out the window and could talk and point out the things we were seeing as we drove. Today, the expensive monstrosities are hard to set up and they are in the back seat and face backwards. Parent and toddler interaction is almost negligible. Just got done transporting the granddaughter and communication was non-existent. Just like the school shutdowns, the mental health and learning capacity of children is never considered, only the necessity of keeping them in a bubble. At age 9 I was mowing the lawn and on a summers day my parents would see me at lunch and then at 5:00. We were riding our bikes, throwing dirt clods at each other, playing workup and climbing trees in the nearby woods. Not an adult in sight. Today, that's child abuse. Had a fellow worker have his 9 year old brought home by a cop who picked her up after she had walked to the local school to play and the cop grabbed her on the way home. That was my entire neighborhood. No wonder we are turning into a nation of scared sheep.

The thing about kids not being able to go play or walk to the store is just made up hysteria. Kids now are statistically no more likely to get abducted by a stranger than in the 60s or 70s. Probably less so now. But media and politicians beat the saftey drum day in and day out. And with an ever increasing population of narcissists, they are susceptible to the message and irrationally freaked out. Why would rational human give their 6 month old an mRNA covid shot? But millions would.

Also back then kids were expected to settle their own beefs with friends. Parents let them figure it out instead of getting pissed at the other parents or calling the police. When I was about 9 a neighbor kid and I were throwing rocks at each other. I got hit on the head pretty hard. I ran home and told my dad the neighbor kid hit me with a rock. He just said to either don’t play with the kid anymore or go figure it out. I went and whipped the living shit out of him with a hot wheel track. Case closed. End of discussion.