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William Hunter Duncan's avatar

Good talk.

Having grown up in rural Minnesota, I realized as an adult, was a bit like paradise. I had free roam of the woods, ponds and lakes, and I did not have to think about all this race bs.

Having lived in Minneapolis for 20 years, I can attest, about 95% of my interactions with Somali's have been unpleasant. The most arrogant and obtuse people I have ever encountered.

Now back living in the rural town I grew up in, Minneapolis feels like some kind of purgatory I subjected myself to.

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Nematode's avatar

Awesome show. You guys didn't even discuss the video the Somali put out after!!! hahahaha, he looks like Kanye on a nitrous binge, smirking about getting away with molestation.

I grew up in Wisconsin and race relations were a disaster in my school. We were all well meaning liberals, but the black kids were all newcomers from Chicago escaping violence while bringing it with them. They were rude, uneducated, poor, and violent and hated us because we were doing better. We really tried and there were success stories, but it made me more racist in my soul than I should have been by temperament and training. Just another example of the dangers of forcing populations together of vastly different culture and economic level.

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John Carter's avatar

Everyone i know who grew up around blacks is racist. Antiracism is a luxury for white liberals in gated communities, which is used as a weapon against less fortunate whites.

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Not Me Not You's avatar

I grew up in a strange hybrid of rural/suburb. It was a small rural town in New England that began to be developed because of the interstate. We had the woods to run and play in, were within 20 minutes of the big city, and was populace enough to have a gang of friends I'd roam around and do petty crimes with. 95%+ White, my only experience with minorities were the two or three blacks in school at any given time. Truly paradise.

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Draper Drapes's avatar

From Louisiana. I honestly think we had more experience with blacks than anywhere else in the county. It’s just understood we don’t like each other. And from that foundation, most interactions were decently pleasant because we just knew we had to get along. It’s much less segregated there. Much more “we know we’re different. We don’t like each other but we just gotta make it work cuz we’re here” type mentality.

All that being said, they’re very tough to be around. And the struggle sessions won’t last much longer. There’s going to be a reckoning.

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John Carter's avatar

There's a certain minimum level of mutual racism a multiracial society requires to maintain social harmony, as southerners know quite well, and the reckoning is going to restore that level and then some.

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Dr. Monzo's avatar

On the question of “what will they do to her” - if they can get her in court, even for a bad reason, they will. It’s punishment enough to drag someone into the courtroom year after year and have them throw money into the deep pit of legal fees to defend themselves from charges a prosecutor doesn’t even think they’re guilty of. There’s no winning here. Even winning a case, you cannot get the time and money back. The process is the punishment and they will just use process to punish her.

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John Carter's avatar

Yes, that's one of the reasons people donated.

They dragged Rittenhouse and Penny into the courts, too.

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Astral's avatar

I see no real legal standing to charge her except maybe endangering the welfare of a child, which is a stretch, but maybe she can be sued for something civil?

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John Carter's avatar

Yeah my guess is a civil suit.

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Photosynthz's avatar

The nigger word thing is symbolic, and symbols have great value.

Clumsiness comes in when one focuses on it as part of some crusade for free speech ‘I just want to be able to sing along to rap songs!’

It’s a symbol, an enemy flag signifying the authority of the anti-racist and egalitarian frame.

You need to be able to call a spade a spade, the unique way that black people can be banally evil and animalistically stupid requires its own word.

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Roy0501's avatar

I grew up in 1980s Ireland and in school and the.media the main issue was apartheid in South Africa. I was taught from a young age about how evil racism was. I was race blind up until the year 2001. That was the year that I went to work in the United States, a city in New England to be more precise. I can tell you in the space of a few months, that I did a 180 u-turn on my views about race. Fast forward to today and my own country of Ireland is being destroyed by the same people behind the curtain, using the same methods.

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Richard's avatar

That was overwhelming. Thank god for the transcript function. Who the heck has the time to listen to stuff for hours.

Anyway, I did this because it was the most interesting. Suburban kid here so I didn't grow up around blacks. I think there was one in my HS. More in college and grad school and more yet when I went to work but they were all accountants, lawyers, and cops so I didn't have the direct contact with ferals like Hendrix did. In my time in the city, I did encounter black thugs but also white thugs. So I am neither racist nor "anti-racist", just unracist. But I can understand her snapping under pressure like Rosa Parks supposedly did especially when the Somali asshole started harassing her.

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John Carter's avatar

I didn't grow up around them either.

The Rosa Parks incident was entirely staged, apparently.

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Richard's avatar

Yeah but the staging was about her snapping and she played the role well. So the Hendrix incident was a case of life imitating art.

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Karl's avatar

The time to Tribe up is now.

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Gman's avatar

Do you know if John has any relation to MentisWave on youtube? I ask because I noticed while listening that their voices are pretty similar.

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Astral's avatar

No clue! Never heard of the YouTuber

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Gman's avatar

This guy: https://www.youtube.com/@MentisWave

If you listen to him talk, you can hear the similarities in their voices.

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John Carter's avatar

Never heard of him

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Gman's avatar

Guess it's just a coincidence then.

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Skeptical1's avatar

Now talk about Dave Portnoy. Yeah right.

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