classical_hero
In whom I trust
Oh shoot, that's embarrassing.
We shoot first, then ask question later.
Oh shoot, that's embarrassing.
What makes you think that photo was taken far away from New Orleans? Not all of the city was underwater, just some sections were and most of those were poor nightborhoods. That photo appeared in lots of articles about Katrina at the time.Obviously the picture was taken far away from New Orleans. The complete lack of damage or debris should make it apparent. The "drunks with guns" line should also make it somewhat apparent that this is satire. Obviously they weren't shooting anyone nor where they planning to, nor where they making any apparent comment on race other than what you seem to be injecting into it.
People with guns became such an issue that the police started going around, breaking into houses, and confiscating them.There signs were everywhere. Often spray painted directly on the walls of the house.
"Looters will be shot"
"You loot, we shoot"
"Drunks with Guns, you loot we shoot"
"Don't make me shoot you"
There were too many of them to take pictures of.
Aside from that, there other messages written on walls and such.
"People inside, don't shoot"
As well as many signs of thanks, often painted on the roof for the airborne rescue workers.
There was so much gunfire at night that you could smell it in your nose and in your tastebuds.
What makes you think that photo was taken far away from New Orleans?
People with guns became such an issue that the police started going around, breaking into houses, and confiscating them.
I was expecting something a little more cleverer after 1 1/2 years of waiting for a response to my post. JollyRoger's interpretation is a lot better.
Obviously the picture was taken far away from New Orleans. The complete lack of damage or debris should make it apparent. The "drunks with guns" line should also make it somewhat apparent that this is satire. Obviously they weren't shooting anyone nor where they planning to, nor where they making any apparent comment on race other than what you seem to be injecting into it.
But yeah. The photo would definitely be reacted to differently if a poor black neighborhood in New Orleans had staged a similar photo.
Ordinary working class white men try and restore order to a city ravaged by a hurricaine and then looting = "the white privilege in this picture is overwhelming". How unbearable..
is it me or are lefties just..well,..obsessed with race? If there is only a white ever crowd it's automatically a bad thing such racists ;p
Don't some white Americans say 'white trash smell worse than ' and similar classist comments?
What's being suggested is that the kind of posturing displayed in that picture is racially coded; when white men do it, they are identified as acting in the defence of law and order, but if black or Hispanic men did, they would be immediately identified as a threat to order. Whites are implicit allies of the American state, and thus licensed in certain circumstances to unilaterally devolve certain functions of the state onto themselves, while people of colour an implicit threat to it, and any such devolution would be seen as nigh-on insurrectionary.
It's basically the old "What if the Tea Party were black?" problem.
Asians aren't black, Los Angeles isn't New Orleans, and the middle of a riot isn't the aftermath of a hurricane. Those seem like at least moderately significant distinctions.
Asians aren't white, Los Angeles is full of gangs (many people would be scared by Asians with guns), and the aftermath of Katrina was a prolonged and spread-out riot, which would also mean a riot is worse for those involved due to it being shorter and more concentrated.
He voted for Cameron, man, what do you expect?
C'mon, Quackers, we know you're not that literal-minded. You know full well what he meant.Btw I'm not in his constituency so I can't vote for him, your ignorance is staggering.
Asians aren't black, Los Angeles isn't New Orleans, and the middle of a riot isn't the aftermath of a hurricane. Those seem like at least moderately significant distinctions.
C'mon, Quackers, we know you're not that literal-minded. You know full well what he meant.
The comparison misses a lot of pretty significant variables. Doesn't mean it's invalid, but unless we unpack some of the details, figure out what transfers and what doesn't, it doesn't tell us very much.
Race relations between Asians and whites ~= Race relations between blacks and whites
And anyway, your comment about the riots doesn't seem to follow. Do all riots have the same, fixed magnitude, where a riot that lasts 10 days is one-tenth as bad as a riot that lasts 1 day for each 1-day period of time?
Shorter does not imply more concentrated.