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Why aren't Gangs in the US treated as Terrorists?
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Ninja Scooter
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They are poor and reside in poor communities. Poor white people are basically a minority in the eyes of the people in power.
Warm Machine
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Not everyone is reasonable or wants to be part of the standard of society.
Bang. Gang's don't have political agendas, they just sell drugs and commit crime, but not for the purpose of advancing a political agenda, for the purpose of getting rich.
There's people on GAF that think speaking correctly is for rich white folk.
What makes you think there aren't thousands of people out there that think a 9 to 5 is for white folk or modern-slavery?
Yea cause those white street gangs are offing each other in record numbers. What big white street gangs claim swaths for territory or smuggling corridors on the southern border? Only white gangs I think off the top of my head are either prison gangs or biker gangs there are no street equivalent to the bloods or MS13.
iamvin22
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Coffee Dog
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because that's colored people problems and nobody in the government cares.
Obviously, so give them free reign to deviate in a constructive manor, don't attempt to corral everyone into marching down a single path.
I feel you're referencing the recent Gucci thread? That manner of speaking is akin to an accent that allows individuals to identify where someone is from. To a group of minorities with little cultural history and power here I don't see how talking that point isn't equatable to the same conformist or die attitude politicians use against illegal immigrants who refuse to speak English. Expression in any form should be allowed man especially if it doesn't hurt people, it sucks tho if you're too old and mired in your ways to be able to "decipher" it.
I've been working a 9-5 for years, shit is slavery, I'm unhappy most of times and I have no way out but to hope while looking through the window to riches and freedom. I honestly will say free at last if I ever get to graduate from college before I'm forced to work the streets just to eat and have to settle with dying young.
As far as I know, terrorists go out of their way to kill as many innocent people as they can to make some kind of extremist or religious point.
Gangs don't really go out of their way to kill innocent people or even target them at all because well why would they, but sometimes they do get caught in the crossfire when there's a war over territories, etc. Was the Italian Mafia a terrorist organization, or is it only when black people do it?
Gangs don't really go out of their way to kill innocent people or even target them at all because well why would they, but sometimes they do get caught in the crossfire when there's a war over territories, etc. Was the Italian Mafia a terrorist organization, or is it only when black people do it?
That is silly. If black Moslems were killing Hispanic Catholics over religious or political beliefs then that would be somewhat in the region of terrorism and the government would give a much bigger shit.
There is not a whole ton of focus on white majority small towns and the tendency for massive drug use as industry moves out of town. Plus the idea that we need to start treating gang members as terrorists when we already have a crazy amount of minorities being locked up as it is.
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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Number of killings is irreverent. If street gangs aren't labeled terrorists, it has nothing to do with the color of their skin and everything to do with the definition of terrorism. Fact of the matter is, there are white groups based in the US that are labeled terrorists. Terrorists use terror to coerce governments, streets gangs do not. Stop making shit about race when race has nothing to do with it.
Part of it is the fact that most gang violence is contained to lower income communities, but there's also the fact that they mostly just kill each other, and they don't blow people up or do brazen shit on a massive scale.
I think that in order to get a response like what the CNN article describes you'd have to have gang activity in the US approaching what you see in Mexico right now from groups like the Zetas. If a gang went and shot up like 15 people in a single, brazen event, even if the victims were minorities or lower income, you'd probably have a bigger outcry and a bigger law enforcement response. Mostly it's just one handgun killing at a time, which is probably just as bad, but it doesn't look as bad as a whole mess of killing all lumped together in a single action.
Also, the fact that we are getting articles like this, that we even know so much about what's going on in Chicago right now, that we even have a war on drugs, shows that the problem isn't just being ignored either. It may not be getting the response it needs, but I don't think things are gonna stay like this forever.
I think that in order to get a response like what the CNN article describes you'd have to have gang activity in the US approaching what you see in Mexico right now from groups like the Zetas. If a gang went and shot up like 15 people in a single, brazen event, even if the victims were minorities or lower income, you'd probably have a bigger outcry and a bigger law enforcement response. Mostly it's just one handgun killing at a time, which is probably just as bad, but it doesn't look as bad as a whole mess of killing all lumped together in a single action.
Also, the fact that we are getting articles like this, that we even know so much about what's going on in Chicago right now, that we even have a war on drugs, shows that the problem isn't just being ignored either. It may not be getting the response it needs, but I don't think things are gonna stay like this forever.
Over a decade of "terror mania" and private citizens can't even tell the difference between a criminal syndicate and a terrorist organization. Instead you fall back to knee jerk, race baiting platitudes. This is why terrorism works, people can't be bothered to actually understand what's going on around them. They just want a merry little jingle to tell them how to feel.
Case in point.
killer rin
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Silly OP, Americans can't be terrorists. Its only people from other nationalities who americans will call terrorists.
RustyNails
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Well, reading this thread so far, all I can say is that I share your frustration.
Not true on any level. A ton of Americans have been considered terrorists by the US Government, the media, and the average American. The Oklahoma City bomber is the easiest example, but far from the only one.
I am not giving anyone the benefit of the doubt at this point.
NEOPARADIGM
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Really?
government could just spew some bullshit lies and everyone will eat it up
or just blame terrorists. seems to work for everything.
or video games
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