[RD] Daily Graphs and Charts

[metatron]

The Lex-like response has mainly been to avoid looking at footage of the thing after watching that car smash a bunch of people. Too horrible for me. I'm not at all familiar with the footage to which you refer, either.

If there is no necessity to look it, say because elemental merits are in dispute, then it is arguably... wrong to do so.
It shows a fundamental lack of appreciation and is an insult to the subjects' human dignity and by extension everybodies human dignity.
You people might call it objectification.
It's one of the last steps before turning war into entertainment.

You know:

Eye on the TV

'cause tragedy thrills me
Whatever flavour
It happens to be like;
Killed by the husband
Drowned by the ocean
Shot by his own son
She used the poison in his tea
And kissed him goodbye
That's my kind of story
It's no fun 'til someone dies​

To be clear, i understand interest in photage of the riot. Because there are - apparently - elemental merits in question.
The car thing though? No. Just no.​

 

[Farm Boy]

Yeah. Don't watch the car thing. It doesn't unwatch and you don't need to do him the service. Let the jury do it for you.

 

[Cutlass]

The Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups

http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/us/hate-groups-us-map-trnd/index.html

 

[warpus]

That looks like an altered map to me!

Are all those actual hate groups or are they using a looser definition? Because.. that seems like a lot..

 

[Cutlass]

Read article.

 

[warpus]

Wow Black separatists lead the way. I wouldn't have guessed that. Based on the description in the article they sound like the black version of white supremacist/KKK groups. But is that accurate?

I've only ever heard of the Black Panthers, I didn't know there were so many other groups like that in the U.S.

 

[Cutlass]

Wow Black separatists lead the way. I wouldn't have guessed that. Based on the description in the article they sound like the black version of white supremacist/KKK groups. But is that accurate?

I've only ever heard of the Black Panthers, I didn't know there were so many other groups like that in the U.S.

It's amazing there aren't more. 400 years of oppression leaves hard feelings.

 

[warpus]

That part doesn't surprise me, I'm moreso surprised that they seem to never come up in the media the way American white supremacy groups seem to a couple times a year at least. The black groups never reach my radar (aside from that one I mentioned) so I didn't know they exist

 

[Synobun]

That part doesn't surprise me, I'm moreso surprised that they seem to never come up in the media the way American white supremacy groups seem to a couple times a year at least. The black groups never reach my radar (aside from that one I mentioned) so I didn't know they exist

Such groups are, ehm, 'naturally contained' by socio-economic standing.

 

[warpus]

Seems like they'd realllly have to lay low to never be in the news though.

 

[Cutlass]

Seems like they'd realllly have to lay low to never be in the news though.

Well, you can hate all you want, but if you don't do a lot of attacking or demonstrating, it doesn't make the news.

 

[warpus]

Is it fair to categorize them as hate groups if they just sit around not perpetrating much of anything except being racist or whatever? I mean at least the white supremacist groups cause trouble every once in a while. Not that trouble is good, but it highlights their categorization as a hate group

 

[Cutlass]

Spoiler :

 

[warpus]

Blue Ridge Parkway huh. Weird I've never heard of it. Must be pretty scenic if it's been #1 since 1990, will have to remember that

 

[Cutlass]

It's probably also a lot more accessible to a lot of people than something like Yellowstone or Yosemite. Looks like most of the ones with the largest number of visits are those that aren't far from major population centers. While the biggest parks, and many of the biggest names in the parks, are way the hell out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[The_J]

I was looking at the pics, and was more like "WTH, why do the most scenic pictures of the most attractive national parks include roads?" (yeah, okay, Golden Gate bridge, fine), until I realized they're even called parkway, and along highways, including the highways themself.
You have no idea how alien that seems to me. A national park is supposedly some untouched pure nature .... that doesn't include a highway. At least for me.

 

[Cutlass]

I was looking at the pics, and was more like "WTH, why do the most scenic pictures of the most attractive national parks include roads?" (yeah, okay, Golden Gate bridge, fine), until I realized they're even called parkway, and along highways, including the highways themself.
You have no idea how alien that seems to me. A national park is supposedly some untouched pure nature .... that doesn't include a highway. At least for me.

Parks have to be accessible. Otherwise how do people go to them? Typical parks have scenic roads, or roads to scenic places, for touring. Then many of them have gravel roads, which you can go off on, but most cars aren't really up to doing a lot of that. Then they have marked hiking trails and camping spots. And then you really get out into the wilderness.

Consider Yellowstone National Park, which is one of the best know. "Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles (8,983 km2)," Which is roughly the size of the island of Puerto Rico, which has over 3.4million people. Yeah there are roads in Yellowstone. But you can't get to very much of the park by road.

 

[The_J]

Yeah, I understand. My home village is even in a nature preserver area.
The pics with a highway in it still strike me as somehow wrong. Just a feeling .

 

[Kyriakos]

Wasn't the KKK supposedly dead/irrelevant back in the 90s? Eg there was such a sentiment about it in that American history X film, where the protagonist thinks the KKK are useless hillbillies, so he opts to become part of a more specifically nazi group, with mein kampf reading and all.

 

[JohannaK]

It comes and it goes. US Grant persecuted them into irrelevance in the 1870s but they came back in the early 20th century and I suppose its been fluctuating along with racially distressful times.