baltimore (and everywhere else)

[Gopher Gary]

]Guess what?  The rioters are from a rich country, too.  Why can't they check their own privilege?

In rich countries the civilly unrested spice their rioting up with looting. 

[Pyraxis]

In poor countries they don't? 

[MLA]

WolFish understands.  I'm kind of surprised that not everyone else does.  Sure, everyone here is white and from a rich country, but everyone is also a spazz.  There is no spazz privilege.  Some of you appear to be "out", and thus genuinely stigmatized.

Guess what?  The rioters are from a rich country, too.  Why can't they check their own privilege?

Couldn't possibly begin to explain it to you Dexter.

[MLA]

Sure, everyone here is white

That's incorrect.

Clearly I don't know EVERYBODY, so everyone was an overbroad statement.

[Hannah]

off topic but sort of on topic...

why in general are people so uptight these days? I mean wut?

You all here are pretty laid back...auties need to rule the world or something, or people just need to chill their wills...

*scratches boobs* 

[odeon]

Rioters are so dumb ... they burn their own houses down!

I am so tired of that trope.  Thank all the gods that you grew up a white girl in a first world country so you never found yourself in a situation where burning down your own community seemed like a plausible reaction to the insurmountable systemic problems you faced.

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Rioters are a riot.

well...I have been to a 3rd world country (China) and helped folks there(I want to go back at some point and help again because I love helping out people)...

and I have a big heart, and honestly (reading civil disobedience good read highly recommend) if that is the reason for saying someone takes for granted xyz then it's a poorly founded argument to have...

personally I stay off the net (novel idea eh?) and read more, get out more, help people more and stay informed to a degree, but I am less impressed with myself the older I get

I make a difference where I can, and fart in the general direction of those that can destroy things just because they feel an itch to do so...

Leave your bit coins at the door, I have no use for them

Huh?

[odeon]

WolFish understands.  I'm kind of surprised that not everyone else does.  Sure, everyone here is white and from a rich country, but everyone is also a spazz.  There is no spazz privilege.  Some of you appear to be "out", and thus genuinely stigmatized.

Guess what?  The rioters are from a rich country, too.  Why can't they check their own privilege?

Rich country does not mean rich people.

[Jack]

WolFish understands.  I'm kind of surprised that not everyone else does.  Sure, everyone here is white and from a rich country, but everyone is also a spazz.  There is no spazz privilege.  Some of you appear to be "out", and thus genuinely stigmatized.

Guess what?  The rioters are from a rich country, too.  Why can't they check their own privilege?

Rich country does not mean rich people.

In a way it does. Poor by western standards probably isn't considered poor in other places. Thinking once read there's more people in the world with cell phones than indoor plumbing. Outside of actual hungry people, not certain what even defines poor.

[Jack]

You all here are pretty laid back...

Most here seem fairly uptight to me.

Sure, everyone here is white

That's incorrect.

Clearly I don't know EVERYBODY, so everyone was an overbroad statement.

Pay attention.

[sg1008]

Sure, everyone here is white

That's incorrect.

That is correct that that incorrect statement is not correct.

[sg1008]

correct is a funny word... 

[Gopher Gary]

In poor countries they don't? 

Hush, I'm trying to inspire Dexter. 

[Gopher Gary]

Huh?

Babbling off topic is a clever debate strategy.  Seriously though, I don't see why she wont defend that stance. Heck even I've said stuff like that on this forum before, called rioters stupid, called them fucking animals. No one contradicted me at the time, but if anyone did I'd say yeah, that's my gut reaction to watching people who look like stupid fucking animals to me, and if I feel any real sympathy it's for the people who didn't do anything to anyone other than be in the wrong place and yet have to suffer the damages. Sure, logically I know there's a lot more to it than that, but as far as raw emotional reaction goes I agree with Hannah.

[odeon]

WolFish understands.  I'm kind of surprised that not everyone else does.  Sure, everyone here is white and from a rich country, but everyone is also a spazz.  There is no spazz privilege.  Some of you appear to be "out", and thus genuinely stigmatized.

Guess what?  The rioters are from a rich country, too.  Why can't they check their own privilege?

Rich country does not mean rich people.

In a way it does. Poor by western standards probably isn't considered poor in other places. Thinking once read there's more people in the world with cell phones than indoor plumbing. Outside of actual hungry people, not certain what even defines poor.

I've seen people without homes or food, and I think they meet the criteria for poor.

[Parts]

WolFish understands.  I'm kind of surprised that not everyone else does.  Sure, everyone here is white and from a rich country, but everyone is also a spazz.  There is no spazz privilege.  Some of you appear to be "out", and thus genuinely stigmatized.

Guess what?  The rioters are from a rich country, too.  Why can't they check their own privilege?

Rich country does not mean rich people.

In a way it does. Poor by western standards probably isn't considered poor in other places. Thinking once read there's more people in the world with cell phones than indoor plumbing. Outside of actual hungry people, not certain what even defines poor.

Cell phones are easy,   indoor plumbing can be a bitch and is a lot more infrastructure.  My brother told me when he got back from India that poor people in this country have no idea just how good they have it compared to what he saw there.  I have heard pretty much the same from people who came to this country as refugees from various countries in Africa.