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    Rioting and the Media

    Baltimore is going all Ferguson right now. I'm thinking it's gonna be a long, hot summer like 1967.
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    I think people are a bit young to remember those summers hawk..the whole stuff hitting the fan over and over.....4 years I was away on the ocean,but it was waiting when I got back....
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      Re: What Are You Thinking About?

      Originally posted by anunitu View Post
      I think people are a bit young to remember those summers hawk..the whole stuff hitting the fan over and over.....4 years I was away on the ocean,but it was waiting when I got back....
      SOME people are, not all! LOL I remember! I was 10 and all sorts of riot action was going on in Newark NJ and in the East New York section of Brooklyn (where we lived). My mother showed me some cubbyhole in the basement and told me that if she gave the word, I was to go there and stay quiet no matter what I heard, until my father got home. What I know now is she was afraid people would come into the house. They didn't, but I remember seeing an angry mob in the streets and hearing them going past our house, running sticks along the fence, and breaking bottles. It was like what I'm seeing live on tv now from Baltimore.
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        I woke up and watched the news...and for a moment I wondered what year it was...It was 1965,and things were changing really fast..That summer I partied until August when I reported to the Navy. I was a bit out of touch with domestic problems while I was on ships,but it was the decade of major changes on many things...and there were riots over race,and their were protests about War,and women burned their bras...That and there was the smell of herb in the air a lot. So here I am 50 years later wondering if I rode a time machine to relive those days of old,and then I remembered what year it was..deja vu all over again...and I got a shiver that was once described as the feeling you get when someone walks over your grave....
        MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

        all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
        NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
        don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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          Re: What Are You Thinking About?

          Originally posted by anunitu View Post
          I woke up and watched the news...and for a moment I wondered what year it was...It was 1965,and things were changing really fast..That summer I partied until August when I reported to the Navy. I was a bit out of touch with domestic problems while I was on ships,but it was the decade of major changes on many things...and there were riots over race,and their were protests about War,and women burned their bras...That and there was the smell of herb in the air a lot. So here I am 50 years later wondering if I rode a time machine to relive those days of old,and then I remembered what year it was..deja vu all over again...and I got a shiver that was once described as the feeling you get when someone walks over your grave....
          Just this:

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            Re: Rioting and the Media

            So...I've been reading the news, from more and less conventional sites.

            This might be interesting, in putting things into perspective:

            When black people do it (for an actual issue), its a riot...when white people do it (for completly stupid shit), its just rabble rousing


            And, while I don't condone rioting, lets not forget that right now, people have an anger that *is* justified (even if the outlet isn't)
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              Originally posted by thalassa View Post
              So...I've been reading the news, from more and less conventional sites.

              This might be interesting, in putting things into perspective:

              When black people do it (for an actual issue), its a riot...when white people do it (for completly stupid shit), its just rabble rousing
              Uhmmm...

              To put things in a different perspective (one where I don't pick sides ), it seems to me that there is a conceptual difference between violent action taken out against gooberment institutions and the stupidity that follows a big sporting event. That would seem (to an English teacher) to require using words with different connotations to describe them...

              That is, if accuracy matters.

              But maybe political stance is more important than accuracy?
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                I'm going to be honest here. I've purposely not seen any news on Nepal or this. Another tragedy. It's my day off. I'm not losing sleep over a fucked up world version This is Tuesday of earth blah blah.
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                  I kinda feel that way from time too time to Duce...I also should mention the ship that Iran boarded after sending rounds across her bow...

                  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ship-Gulf.html

                  Just another thing to ignore for a few days...
                  MAGIC is MAGIC,black OR white or even blood RED

                  all i ever wanted was a normal life and love.
                  NO TERF EVER WE belong Too.
                  don't stop the tears.let them flood your soul.




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                    Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post

                    But maybe political stance is more important than accuracy?

                    Or maybe it depends on what we define a "riot" (I just looked this up now) as...I don't think the reason for rioting determines on what makes it a riot, I think its the actions going on that determine what is a riot.

                    I always thought it was when a crowd of people engaged in wanton property destruction.

                    Fires+looting+mob=riot


                    At least the people of Baltimore have something legitimate to be angry over, compared to rioting because your team won the Stanley Cup...and I'm not saying rioting is justified, but...if its going to happen, at least its not frivolous.


                    But it is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

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                    Last edited by thalassa; 28 Apr 2015, 16:53.
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