Dilbert is cancelled...

[WTFH]

Age diversity seems to have been forgotten about.

Not in the UK - the pension age keeps increasing to “encourage” older people to keep working.

[vetran]

Well it does seem to be used by those who deny there is a racism problem. It's a dismissive response typically used as a way to stop talking about black issues. It is at best ignorant of what "BLM" is saying (by people who think BLM is exclusionary or make that claim for their own agenda). I don't think ALM is racist but it's not used used by anyone who seems to care about racism so it's not hard to see it getting a bad rep, just as the extremists clinging to BLM give that a bad rep.

Who with any sense denies there is a racism problem?

Now people defining racism as something only committed by whites is a problem as well.

For BLM the charity fraud by the people at the top was pretty damning. Moving George Floyd to sainthood wasn't a great move either. He was an intoxicated convicted felon who died whilst resisting arrest, the way the police restrained him was incorrect and unsafe but there were far better causes that highlighted Police brutality.

We have just had 5 policemen beat a black suspect to death and it hardly caused a ripple.

[Zigenare]

Who with any sense denies there is a racism problem?

Now people defining racism as something only committed by whites is a problem as well.

For BLM the charity fraud by the people at the top was pretty damning. Moving George Floyd to sainthood wasn't a great move either. He was an intoxicated convicted felon who died whilst resisting arrest, the way the police restrained him was incorrect and unsafe but there were far better causes that highlighted Police brutality.

We have just had 5 policemen beat a black suspect to death and it hardly caused a ripple.

Another suspect who resisted arrest and tried to flee. <-- That bit seems to have been glossed over by some.

[vetran]

Another suspect who resisted arrest and tried to flee. <-- That bit seems to have been glossed over by some.

My understanding was he wasn't well known to the police so he wasn't so likely to fight back?

[Zigenare]

My understanding was he wasn't well known to the police so he wasn't so likely to fight back?

My understanding is that resisting arrest and trying to flee, innocent or not is unlikely to end well.

[SueEllen]

Not in the UK - the pension age keeps increasing to “encourage” older people to keep working.

Can your children inherit your mortgage yet?

[xoggoth]

Not talking about surveys but statistics are often very simplistic, black, white, Asian, Muslim etc.

Things are not that simple, there are many factors: Where people are from, not simply country but wherebouts in a country, size of population in areas of the UK - presumably because smaller groups do not remain separated to the same extent and, perhaps most importantly, wealth. If you compared people of similar economic standing I doubt the differences would be as high. Various studies show inequality is a major factor in crime.

[NotAllThere]

Ah, your typical argument.
Rather than looking at what has been said, let's project what hasn't been said as a reason to do nothing, and blame "the others".

And then we have the holocaust. It's the enablers you see.

It's a bit* sad to Ziggy is so inarticulate nowadays. His once razor sharp mind could pierce any hypocrisy. But now he just seems... tired.



* A very very tiny bit.

[vetran]

Can your children inherit your mortgage yet?

loving the alien avatar!

[Zigenare]

And then we have the holocaust. It's the enablers you see.

It's a bit* sad to Ziggy is so inarticulate nowadays. His once razor sharp mind could pierce any hypocrisy. But now he just seems... tired.



* A very very tiny bit.

Try reading the whole thread before you start with your ad hominem attacks.

Considering that 14% of Americans identify as black and even if the 26% of black people polled is extrapolated across the population of the United States that's 3.64% of the (registered) population of the USA - ~12.25Mn people which I grant you is a large number of people - if you gather them in one place. Considering there are ~336mn people in the USA then as far as I'm concerned, it's not a real problem.