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Post by Vince524 on Jun 12, 2020 12:08:17 GMT -5
It does make me think of an interesting point, though. How much blame does or should Hollywood have in this when it comes to glorifying "bad cops." How many movies have portrayed cops who "break the rules" and rough up bad guys as the heroes? How many episodes of Law & Order: SVU (for example), showed Stabler abusing suspects but still portrayed as the hero because his intentions were portrayed as "good"? I wonder how many people see these types of depictions, which are often nothing more than "bully as hero" power fantasies, and took those perceptions with them when pursuing law enforcement careers. I wonder how many people see these types of depictions and have come to think or otherwise normalize the belief that it's okay for police (or FBI or whomever) to "break the rules" sometimes if they believe it's somehow in service of justice? That's an interesting take. Of course, the cops in SVU could never learn if they wanted to talk to someone, it might not be a great idea to call their name from across the street and half way down the block. You could have a movement to push for cop shows to show cops doing their job correctly. But sure, let's cancel Paw Patrol. That'll work.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 12, 2020 12:19:37 GMT -5
I think that's a fair thing to explore. Movies/TV shows do glorify what should be seen as improper conduct by LEOs.
But...it's something to explore, not something that requires an across-the-board condemnation and "deletion." There are an awful lot of shows and movies that have glorified criminals, too. I'm betting they'll be no large-scale take down of Godfather/mob-type movies (what would Scorsese do then, make superhero movies), the Sopranos series, or the Fast and Furious franchise.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 12, 2020 16:13:09 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Jun 12, 2020 16:19:16 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Jun 12, 2020 18:08:28 GMT -5
So, is UCLA gonna go after all the other profs who said "no?"
If they really care and aren't just being virtue-signally hacks, they would.
But I think we already know the answer and know their true motivations.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 12, 2020 18:53:15 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Jun 13, 2020 8:22:48 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Jun 13, 2020 13:58:53 GMT -5
Oh. My. God. They're just undergrad commies:
I thought maybe they were at least grad student commies, but they're not even that far along.
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Post by Optimus on Jun 13, 2020 14:29:51 GMT -5
They're starting to make me reconsider my stance on Trump's use of the military in these situations.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 13, 2020 15:09:44 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Jun 13, 2020 15:42:50 GMT -5
I saw the Twitter meltdown around that a few days ago. I had no idea what the kerfuffle was about. By that, I mean that I knew what the woman was complaining about, I just found it so incredibly stupid and intellectual dishonest that I was nonplussed.
All Fang did was interview a guy and the guy was just giving his opinion (and spitting out actual facts). The far left doesn't care about facts, though. They care about victimhood narratives that they can milk for moral indignation and likes.
Great line from Taibbi in that article:
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Post by robeiae on Jun 13, 2020 15:59:40 GMT -5
A twitter search of "Akela Lacy" is quite informative and entertaining. She's clearly a part of the cadre of progressive cyberbullies masquerading as journalists. Check this tweet from some tool named Tyler Tynes:
One has to ask, who is the "us" he(?) refers to? Is English his first language? Is he actually getting paid to write stuff? Who WON'T twitter give a blue check mark to? Is his entire account and career an elaborate parody?
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Post by robeiae on Jun 13, 2020 16:03:57 GMT -5
Also, this tweet from Akela Lacy deserves some recognition:
Lol, what kind of journalist sits around writing stuff while people are dying? She's clearly horribly butthurt by Taibbi's piece and can't really offer up any sort of defense for her douchey behavior, so she's trying a lame deflection.
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Post by Optimus on Jun 13, 2020 16:29:48 GMT -5
Yeah, she seems like a miserable piece of shit. Wokeness is a fundamentalist secular religious cult now and Twitter is its Jonestown.
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Post by robeiae on Jun 15, 2020 8:21:20 GMT -5
Sorry, but this is hilarious:
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