How not to get ass kicked by Cops (from Chris Rock archives)

[emilynghiem]

Just had to post this.

This was back when you could make fun of things like this,
Eddie Murphy style from SNL. I miss the 80's when joking around was clearly
MAKING FUN OF STEREOTYPES and wasn't mean spirited bullying directed at people.

I think this says more about the cultural shift in
perception in media/social stereotypes and in politics.
What used to be seen as individual responsibility
has been projected more and more on groups as a COLLECTIVE
identity in order to make public statements in the media
complaining and demanding change from WHOLE GROUPS.

 

[Wyatt earp]

IM2 hates when I post this video in his race bait threads

 

[emilynghiem]

IM2 hates when I post this video in his race bait threads

Yes bear513
It's an insult if you and IM2 are insinuating that
just because one person acts or thinks one way,
that implies another person should change how they
see or say things.

If you post this as a comparison of what is acceptable
or what is taken as an offense or insult TODAY, then
it's about studying the social and media culture.
Then it's NOT about targeting a person as "representing
a whole group" which is what causes so much offense today.

What has shifted is not seeing people as individuals anymore
Kaepernick can't just speak for himself, but if someone refuses
to agree with what he says, suddenly that means a WHOLE GROUP
is rejecting and being insensitive to a WHOLE OTHER GROUP.

Trump isn't seen as speaking for himself.

Cortez causes uproars with what she says
meaning an insult or attack on a whole group.

If you step back from this whole GROUP THINK of assuming
someone should or should not talk the way they do "because
it means something to a whole group" then you can still talk
to each other as individuals and compare perceptions objectively.

Right now, we are in a state where things are taken to mean
a collective statement about entire groups. So instead of trying
to clean up messes one on one, and addressing issues directly
with each other, suddenly it's a declaration of taking down whole
groups because of one individual "seen as representing an entire class."