We all have to stick together!
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Asian-American family uses BLM sign, receives hatemail/threats
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We all have to stick together!
More at the link http://sfist.com/2017/09/19/asian_american_family_threatened_fo.php
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
The people leaving those letters in their mailbox. Pure scum.
Good for the family though. Stay strong.
Good for the family though. Stay strong.
What did he mean by this?
Member
They should buy a gun and shoot people that attempt to invade their property
TrueDefault
Member
POCs?
Transistor
Banned
Fuck racists
Skellig Gra
Member
Chink Lives Matter, these people are just pathetic.
Vermillion
Banned
Good on the family <3
Man, it's so nuts to me how much BLM rustles people up. It gets people so fucking mad, it's incredible. Like, far madder than I'd ever expected, even given the subject material.
I was driving on the interstate and I saw an old lady with TWO giant "Blue Lives Matter" stickers her car with the accompanying catch phrase: "Just Comply". Do they not realize how absolutely fucked up that sounds? These are often the same people who rally against big government and taxation, but cops? Just comply! Go along with it! It's fine because I'm not a thug!
I was driving on the interstate and I saw an old lady with TWO giant "Blue Lives Matter" stickers her car with the accompanying catch phrase: "Just Comply". Do they not realize how absolutely fucked up that sounds? These are often the same people who rally against big government and taxation, but cops? Just comply! Go along with it! It's fine because I'm not a thug!
ResidentWeevil13
Member
Good on them!
Chink never went away. Like tons of other racist names Asian people are called.
It's disturbing because it's really just black lives matter. Not matter more than white people, not matter more than police. Simply implying that black people matter is offensive to so many.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
I'd ask why the police aren't involved with actual threats being sent but being the US I can't help but assume an off duty cop at least sent the first one.
TheLetdown
Member
Of course it is.
You think racists are out here being creative? They're hind-brained, knee-jerk substance-less shitbags, not writers.
Pankratous
Member
MURICA
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On the topic of the word 'chink', you would not believe how popular it still is in the UK. It's common to hear "I'm going to the Chinkies", i.e, I'm going for a Chinese. It has diminished greatly though.
Skellig Gra
Member
I don't understand why you think it wouldn't be. Chink was a thing when I was a kid, there are a lot of people in the world 30 years or older. And yes they are incredibly sad/pathetic people.
sixteen-bit
Member
Hooray for solidarity
Violence Jack
Member
Fucking cowards. Won't ever come out and say that to their faces.
MugiwaraCole
Member
Telling that saying Black Lives Matter is apparently so aggressive that the only logical opposite retort to it is Blue Lives Matter.
Like niggas was born blue and didn't have a say in the matter.
Like niggas was born blue and didn't have a say in the matter.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
Member
After you being serious? You think chink just magically disappeared? Even ESPN used it not too long ago.
It breaks peoples brains.
One minute its WHY DO BLM RALLIES HAVE TO BLOCK ROADS? WHY CANT THEY PROTEST PEACEFULLY?
Then a few minutes later the same person is like I CANT BELIEVE THAT FOOTBALL PLAYER IS KNEELING DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. Like, how much more peaceful can a protest be than someone kneeling quietly without causing a scene? But people still get furious about it. Fuck em.
NekoFever
Member
Because it's been deliberately painted in certain circles as meaning "only black lives matter" rather than "black lives matter too". The same ones push the narrative that it's some violent hate group.
That's what's crazy about it: people are looking at black lives matter and just immediately jumping to "THEY THINK COPS SHOULD BE KILLED" when that's not even remotely the message at all. Cops have unjustly killed many black people (and just people in general if you want to get down to it). But BLM has killed exactly zero cops.
There's not even an attempt to see the conversation. It's immediately "this is a threat" not "there might be something here".
I live in the UK and have never heard anyone say that. I'm aware of Chink as a derogatory term for Chinese people, but I've never heard anyone use it in that way, or describe the restaurants as Chinkies. Obviously just my own experience though, yours may vary.
Edit: I'm white so I wouldn't have had it directed at me, that might be part of the reason I haven't heard it.
Systemwarrior
Member
Fuck racism! It seems like everyday now there are more and more stories popping up. Im sick of it. Bigots are coming out of the racism closet in force it seems. And the BLM hate utterly ridiculous.
ramoisdead
Member
Same. I would also have one of those wi-fi cams outside the house facing the front alongside a motion sensor light just so I can have a clear picture of the racist asshole or assholes that keep on menacing.
I shit you not, I saw someone claim BLM actually means "White lives don't matter". Like, how lacking in self-awareness or irony can you get?
When have racism/slurs ever gone away?
Obviously, they know what it means but just don't care. Otherwise, Blue Lives Matter would be just offensive to them but no one says, "all lives matter" to people that say blue lives matter. Funny that, right?
NekoFever said it well. Those against it wrongly interpret it as (Only) BLM rather than Black Lives (also) Matter. I don't think the people that interpret it that way would have been allies anyway.
Pankratous
Member
Probably more of Glaswegian thing than a UK wide thing, maybe? I thought it was more widespread.
salty_Josh
Member
It's a thing in London too. Tried to get my dad to stop saying it even if he only says it around family. Didn't exactly work. Feelsbadman.
Also why does no one respond to blue lives matter with "all colours matter"?
Switch Back 9
a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
God damn "Blue Lives Matter" gets me so agitated. Why the fuck is that necessary?
Charles Brandon
Member
It's common still amongst the scum classes to describe a Chinese takeaway
vonStirlitz
Unconfirmed Member
Either you are younger or grew up in a nice area, but I heard this a lot, along with Paki and poof and all the other shite terms, on the estates in the 80s. Havent heard either term till now though, so assumed the bad old days and the bad terms had died away.
True Underdog
Member
These are the same folks who, before Ferguson, ranted about cops being the government's "jack-booted thugs" but all of a sudden, things changed. I wonder what. 🤔
capitalCORN
Member
Nothing scares racists more than organized minorities. They want easy game, not a legion to stand against.
NeoZeedeater
Member
Because Gargamel's after them.
It's funny: I know a decent amount of libertarians and there was an interesting moment of inflection with Ferguson where half of them were vehemently against the protesters and the other half were actually heavily in support of them, at least due to the fact that they thought it was a massive overreach of government force.
Omegasquash
Member
It's not, but it makes playing a round of "spot the racist" go by quickly.
Vital Tundra
Member
It's crazy how much BLM bothers these people. Even people who aren't racist have been tricked in to believing it's some extremist group or some bullshit. Same shit with the black panthers. Had to explain to my mom she was lied to about the BP not to long ago. It's crazy what living in the south and being lied to on the news can do to a person.
This is even crazier being its California, but I guess you really can't excape racism and shit.
This is even crazier being its California, but I guess you really can't excape racism and shit.