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Ferguson

Is Ferguson about...

  • Racism

    Votes: 16 19.5%
  • Police injustice

    Votes: 22 26.8%
  • Cultural differences

    Votes: 12 14.6%
  • Class Warfare

    Votes: 12 14.6%
  • Crazy people

    Votes: 26 31.7%
  • All the above

    Votes: 29 35.4%
  • Other

    Votes: 16 19.5%

  • Total voters
    82
It's about cultural differences among the races. I can't see an Indian guy, an Anglo guy or an Asian guy fighting a cop in broad daylight in the middle of a street. Africans simply are more confrontational culturally as well as so extremely culturally unique that this equates to conflict with Western police forces.

What in the hell are you talking about? Blacks are more confrontational "culturally"? This comments wreaks of naivety...
 
It's about cultural differences among the races. I can't see an Indian guy, an Anglo guy or an Asian guy fighting a cop in broad daylight in the middle of a street. Africans simply are more confrontational culturally as well as so extremely culturally unique that this equates to conflict with Western police forces.

My son's a cop: anybody who decides to fight a cop in the moment - tries to fight a cop.

That's why they get beat up for fighting cops.
 
Do you really think an Asian guy, an Indian guy or an Anglo guy would walk up to police officers like this with a knife completely sober?

I don't think so..




I have seen videos of white guys doing that exact thing...
 
What no one seems to understand here or perhaps is just unwilling to acknowledge is that all this protest is an accumulation of years of targeting and police abuse abuse of power. It's not about just this incident any more than the reaction to Trayvon Martin was about just that incident. How could anyone look at these events and not acknowledge that they are indicative of a greater problem. The real question is, what is the greater problem?

I realize it. That doesnt justify it.

Just like when a teen takes an AR-15 to his highschool and shoots it up....same thing...but it doesnt justify it.
 
I realize it. That doesnt justify it.

Just like when a teen takes an AR-15 to his highschool and shoots it up....same thing...but it doesnt justify it.

First of all, no it is not the same thing. It isn't even close to the same thing.

Some kid taking a gun to a group of innocent kids because of some personal psychological hell he might be suffering is completely different. Those kids are innocent.

This is more akin to a woman who finally retaliates against an abusive husband.
 
Ha ha!
Sure you are, that's why you are assuming that there was a struggle to begin with!

BTW, this is straw since I never said anything like what you are implying. LOL! This is you again "reserving judgement"!

ROFLOL!


Reserving judgement against those practicing 1st amendment rights!

You should take this act on the road.

you think rioting is merely a form of free speech?

that is akin to saying sexual freedom is the same as forcible rape
 
First of all, no it is not the same thing. It isn't even close to the same thing.

Some kid taking a gun to a group of innocent kids because of some personal psychological hell he might be suffering is completely different. Those kids are innocent.

This is more akin to a woman who finally retaliates against an abusive husband.

The people and businesses of Ferguson are guilty of what exactly, to have earned that retaliation?
 
The people and businesses of Ferguson are guilty of what exactly, to have earned that retaliation?

I'm not saying that they acted in a way that was necessarily in their own best interest or that it was directed to a necessarily deserving party. I am saying that what fueled it is justified and I don't believe it's in anyone's best interest to dismiss that. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by a few unruly protesters or dismiss what is being protested because of a few unruly members
 
I'm not saying that they acted in a way that was necessarily in their own best interest or that it was directed to a necessarily deserving party. I am saying that what fueled it is justified and I don't believe it's in anyone's best interest to dismiss that. Don't allow yourself to be distracted by a few unruly protesters or dismiss what is being protested because of a few unruly members

I do not in any way think that rioting and looting is justified.

I'm not saying what they are protesting is wrong (altho I dont think they're going to end up being justified in this case) but that is not the same as rioting and looting. Those are still wrong.
 
I do not in any way think that rioting and looting is justified.

I'm not saying what they are protesting is wrong (altho I dont think they're going to end up being justified in this case) but that is not the same as rioting and looting. Those are still wrong.

Once again, understanding what's provoked it and choosing not to dismiss the validity of that is not the same as claiming that looting is justified.
 
you think rioting is merely a form of free speech?

that is akin to saying sexual freedom is the same as forcible rape
I'll reserve judgement on those you claim are "rioting scum".
 
I'll reserve judgement on those you claim are "rioting scum".

you seem to confuse rioters with protestors. if someone is rioting and looting they are scum. that doesn't require any reservation in my book
 
That's just stupid to me TD. Charging a cop in an attempt to murder him is a death wish. How many people would behave that way? It doesn't make sense to me, especially when there is a wide distance and gun is already pointed directly at you.

I generally don't trust cops in this sense. They screw up, and the entire dept seems to cover their ass.

do you know which firearm is most likely to be used to kill a cop?

his own. so when someone attacks a police officer physically there is a good chance the attacker is trying to take the officer's weapon to use against him. It has happened many a time
 
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