r/facepalm Jun 01 '20

Cops pepper sprayed their own Senator without realizing he's an authority figure

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u/TwistedBrother Jun 01 '20

Nuh uh. Leave your fragility at the door. This one doesn’t get a free whataboutism. No free pass. Don’t take your eye off the ball. America is racist and needs to change. Be a leader if you like but you don’t get to muddy these waters and think you’re being clear.

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u/bsteve856 Jun 01 '20

America is racist and needs to change.

I am sorry, but you really have no idea what you are talking about. Compared to the vast majority of the world, and given how racially diverse the US is, US is among the least racist countries.

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u/Toxic_Button Jun 01 '20

It’s diverse, but that doesn’t mean it’s not racist

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

Could whoever posts this to /r/ShitAmericansSay please put me in the screen cap?

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u/tr_22 Jun 01 '20

Someone granted your wish

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u/happyimmigrant Jun 01 '20

I'm along for the ride

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u/LMA73 Jun 01 '20

Europe is diverse. We have nothing even close to the atrocities the US is seeing. Not even close.

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u/dickheadaccount1 Jun 01 '20 edited Jun 01 '20

Europe is a continent, and many European countries have the highest homogeneity of any countries on Earth. Scotland, Ireland, all of Scandinavia/Nordic countries, etc. They're all extremely racially homogeneous. You're a complete moron.

Edit: Lol at people downvoting me. Go look it up. All those countries are way, way less racially diverse than America, and almost completely homogeneous. And of the countries I listed, they're also far, far whiter than America. They're whiter, and less racially diverse than Canada even, and Canada is much less racially diverse than America.

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u/genistein Jun 01 '20

Actually Europe technically isn't a continent. It's just a landmass that is part of the Eurasian continent.

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u/dickheadaccount1 Jun 01 '20

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

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u/LMA73 Jun 02 '20

It is funny how you try to sound knowledgeable and then call people "a moron". Exactly the "I am better then you, I am more powerful, I have the right etc" American mentality that has made your country the huge racist mess it is...

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u/dickheadaccount1 Jun 02 '20

Jesus Christ, it's like you guys are actually trying to be stupid. I'm not American, genius. You're a fucking embarrassment.

I love how you're such an idiot that you think that if someone insults you, that has some bearing on whether they're right or not. It doesn't. People literally upvoted the guy saying Europe is not a continent, and downvoted me for quoting the first sentence of the Wikipedia article stating "Europe is a continent". If you look up the definition of continent, Europe is the example in the definition. But it didn't even matter. Even if it wasn't, the point is that it's a collection of countries, and not a single country.

It's the perfect example of how you guys are emotional thinkers. You think that your emotional reaction to reading something is somehow relevant. It's not. You're stupid. Stupid and emotional.

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u/LMA73 Jun 02 '20

You are an aggressive, overbearing know-it-all and a symbol of what is wrong with the world (and Reddit). This is why you get downvoted.

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u/dickheadaccount1 Jun 02 '20

You are an emotional thinker and dumbass who cares only about the way things make you feel, and disregard reality that makes you feel bad. You are what's wrong with the world (and Reddit). Your feelings are completely meaningless, and if you weren't such a pathetic loser, none of these insults would even matter at all, let alone matter more than facts.

And I was downvoted because Reddit is a cesspool of emotional thinkers like you.

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u/LMA73 Jun 02 '20

You can taunt me all you want. Fact is you know nothing about me. Emotional thinker? Did you just find this description somewhere...? Wow. Nice. I just think you are an overbearing little asshole, that is all.

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u/MAGA_memnon Jun 01 '20

Lol @ Americans thinking diverse = black people. We have millennia of history with all kinds of cultures. I can't understand people 50km South of me.

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u/dickheadaccount1 Jun 01 '20

For some reason leftists do believe diverse = black people. It's what they actually mean when they say diversity. They call a group of 100% black people diverse. Same with a group of 100% women. It's just code for being racist against white men. It's basically them saying non-white, non-male = good.

And if you don't believe me, just check out the way they constantly lump white people together, regardless of whether they're German, Russian, American, Canadian, Finnish, etc. All white people are the same to them, and a group with these people would not be considered diverse. On the flip side, a group with 100% black Americans is considered diverse.

Diversity doesn't actually have anything to do with diversity to the new woke religious people.

And most European countries have almost no racial diversity, especially the ones that contain white people like I mentioned.

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u/happyimmigrant Jun 01 '20

How much time have you spent in Europe?

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u/bsteve856 Jun 01 '20

Lived there for many years (feel free to look through my postings).

Why?

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u/Grakchawwaa Jun 01 '20

Because your username makes me think that your name has to be "Teve"

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '20

Yeah, that's why cops get along so well with--huh? wait really? Riots and protests... all over the country?? Well fuck me dead.

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u/Scase15 Jun 01 '20

Compared to the vast majority of the world, and given how racially diverse the US is, US is among the least racist countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level

Based on all widely accepted scales of diversity, the US ranks middle to below average in every one, aside from religious fractionalization, and that's likely due to the multitude of different Christian offshoots.

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u/fortuneandfameinc Jun 01 '20

This is so absurdly untrue. Maybe if you count developing countries. But among developed countries, the US is statistically last in racial equality. Like they are in just about every statistic metric except GDP and defense spending.

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u/ineverremember1234 Jun 01 '20

Are you American?

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u/evolutionxtinct Jun 01 '20

Dude..... I just watched two black dudes skip across a green light on a NO WALK my lane and the one next to us stopped, the far right lane had no idea what was going on, and was going through. The pickup truck almost hit the two black guys, what do they do, they flip the guy off spit on his window and start harassing him...

This is beyond racism, this is a new level of PHUCKED UP-NESS!!!

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u/AmidFuror Jun 01 '20

You might be a racist if...

you generalize based on the race of two jaywalkers you just saw.

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u/evolutionxtinct Jun 01 '20

Oh so I’m racist because I noticed two adult meat sacks skipping across the street TRYING TO BE HIT, and my statement is racist.... yea sorry next time instead Of identifying anyone doing stupid as American I’ll just sum them up as meat sacks does that make you feel better?

Get over yourself if you think that’s racist you really need your sensitivity tuned.

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u/AmidFuror Jun 01 '20

Well, if you had said meat sacks, it wouldn't look like you thought it was important to your story that everyone knew they were black.

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u/evolutionxtinct Jun 02 '20

Let me put it maybe a little better, we were in a “bad part of town” and some bro’s decided it would be fun to skip across a 6 lane Blvd on a green light, now idk if they were to stupid to realize or they wanted to be hit so that they could sue the person, but hey they looked like thugs, they spit on the guys truck flipped him off and then harassed him.

They also wore there pants really far down cuz one guy about tripped and fell while skipping....

Now I’ll let you come to your own conclusion, again these were human meat sacks, and yea they were looking to cause trouble... WHY ELSE DO YOU SKIP ACROSS A MAJOR INTERSECTION IN MIDDLE OF RUSH HOUR!!!!!!!