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"I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostI feel bad for the local residents who are genuinely trying for change (and I know there are some), because it seems like they're being drowned out by out of town agitators."As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12
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Originally posted by Darth Executor View PostThe change they want is for the cops to stop shooting violent thugs so I don't see why anyone should feel bad for them."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Because there are legitimate issues around police power - and its abuse or perceived abuse. Those were what KG referred to so it's a strawman from that perspective.
That said, there's a reason there were so many agitators and DE has a perfectly valid point where that crowd is concerned."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Jedidiah View PostI think his post is worth more than that. Why do you think of it as a straw man?"I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostBecause they have addressed many specific issues; the relationships between police departments and their citizens, whether the police need morem outside oversight, whether the police department should be more representative of a city's population as opposed to being 97% white in a majority black community; and a number of others. To portray it as nothing more than whether the police should shoot (alleged; we still believe in innocent until proven guilty in a court of law) criminals on sight is disingenuous.Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostYou agreed with it - you even called it justified. Need to clarify when you agree with a premise just what part you agree with.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...e8a_story.htmlAtheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostThen don't use the term because that isn't what it means.
I don't see anything about motives in there. Cities in the US have historically tended to be magnets for the poor looking for work; children of the working poor would tend to move away as they had opportunity. It just happens that immigration patterns (where much of the working poor originated) have shifted from mostly white to mostly non-white. Racism has nothing to do with that. Now that we have welfare, the children of the non-working poor tend to be also non-working poor and thus trapped there.Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
I don't see anything about motives in there. Cities in the US have historically tended to be magnets for the poor looking for work; children of the working poor would tend to move away as they had opportunity. It just happens that immigration patterns (where much of the working poor originated) have shifted from mostly white to mostly non-white. Racism has nothing to do with that. Now that we have welfare, the children of the non-working poor tend to be also non-working poor and thus trapped there."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by seer View PostListen, in my state this happened in our Capitol city. In the sixties and seventies the crime rate went through the roof (it is still through the roof) and the schools went to pot. They called it "white flight." That was because the large majority of people who had the means to move out of these liberal hell holes were white. I just don't necessarily see race as the main issue. For instance, in the linked article from the Washington Post they blame Detroit's decline on "white flight." But they don't know the motivation of the whites that left which may have had more to do with the riots of the sixties - but they still call it "white flight."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...e8a_story.html
Which doesn't change the implication - the term still carries a racist connotation and it's not actually necessary to use it. Since you knew full well that the connotation existed - you admitted on this page - the responsibility to make it clear what you were and were not agreeing with remains with you."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostWhich doesn't change the implication - the term still carries a racist connotation and it's not actually necessary to use it. Since you knew full well that the connotation existed - you admitted on this page - the responsibility to make it clear what you were and were not agreeing with remains with you.Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostWell no, I didn't even think of race until you brought it up. When the term was used in my state it wasn't in the context of white people not wanting to live with black people. Just like the Washington Post link. It was about escaping crime and horrible schools, and the fact was it was generally the white middle class that had the means to leave."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by KingsGambit View PostYou didn't think of race at all about a term called white flight?Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by seer View PostNo because, like in my state, it was mostly the white middle class that fled the larger cities. And not because they necessarily were racist.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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