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re: Ferguson, what's your opinion?
Posted on 8/24/14 at 12:58 am to RogerTheShrubber
Posted on 8/24/14 at 12:58 am to RogerTheShrubber
The most troubling part to me is the pack mentality that members of lower socioeconomic classes, who are disproportionately minorities, have in situations like this.
Watch the video of the shooting in St. Louis this week, it is INCREDIBLE the kind of lunacy the crowd is throwing around. It's almost an animalistic display with a complete inability to behave rationally or with any civility.
Those people didn't care one bit about whether it was justified or what the person who had been shot did, all they cared about was defending the "pack".
Watch the video of the shooting in St. Louis this week, it is INCREDIBLE the kind of lunacy the crowd is throwing around. It's almost an animalistic display with a complete inability to behave rationally or with any civility.
Those people didn't care one bit about whether it was justified or what the person who had been shot did, all they cared about was defending the "pack".
Posted on 8/24/14 at 1:46 pm to Roger Klarvin
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The most troubling part to me is the pack mentality that members of lower socioeconomic classes, who are disproportionately minorities, have in situations like this.
I'll go a step further. It's not really socioeconomic. It's tribal. And I don't mean that in an "African tribe" sense. A couple of my African American friends in town here are very well off, both have family incomes in the $150k+ range. And they see the shooting in much the same way as the protesters.
I don't think that's peculiar to black people. We are becoming a tribal society where the groups with which we identify are where we get our "truth." And those aren't necessarily tied to race for everyone. For some it's race, for some it's social strata, for some it's religion or lack thereof, for some it's political party, for some it's an issue-driven thing (dislike of cops or the opposite). We aren't nearly concerned with truth as we are with our tribals impulses.
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