Another reason for me to not come back from Canada. |
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, anyway. |
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Another reason for me to not come back from Canada. |
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Is this actually real? Not just satire or something? |
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I clicked the link in your embedded video's description and found this: |
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Wow, It was hard to believe that video was totally serious. Scary stuff. It doesn't seem to go into detail on what action would be taken against a person reported to be engaged in "suspicious" activity. How could they tell someone who is just strange from a terrorist without invading privacy? |
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...what was the point of taking the suitcase off the rack? |
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Oneironaut.. I admire you. |
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I think they're just overreacting to avoid complaints from minorities of racism, by making all the bad people white.... then no one gets offended. |
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You mean if you spot a guy dressed like a drug dealer and you say hello and they run off in terror, they might be up to something? |
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Fuck the US government. |
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Last edited by ninja9578; 07-22-2011 at 01:47 PM.
Sorry, what's so disturbing about the racial thing..? What's the conspiracy theory today, the US government (which consists entirely of racial minorities) is persecuting white people? Looks to me like they're just reminding people that terrorists aren't necessarily arabs; in fact there were black and asian terrorists in that video, too. They even outright stated this point, it's hardly some kind of sinister subliminal thing. |
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It's quite simple actually. While I do welcome moving away from singling out and persecuting minorities - legislature and law enforcement have been going in the direction of using loose terms, such as 'suspicious' or 'terrorist' to apply to virtually anybody. While I am strongly against the condemnation of an entire culture, this tendency is troubling, mainly because it completes the transition from a specific claim to a generic one - very naturally. Furthermore, think of the target group of the film - quite similar to the 'terrorists' in the video would be my guess. The idea is to basically encourage the thought that your 'neighbor' may very well be a terrorist and that it is best to 'keep an eye on each other' and report 'suspicious behavior'. Not only puts this an unnecessary paranoid spin on reality, 'neighborhood watch' has also been a poster stamp for excessive and unjustified use of force by governments in the past. Nice job managing to phrase your questions in a condescending way just with the second sentence by the way. |
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Thanks, I thought it worthy of condescension. |
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I don't see anything suspicious about the depiction of various races. Like others, I think the media is just overly worried about using races in a way to avoid outcry. |
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Spartiate says do more than just temporarily crashing a website or two if you want change. |
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@xei |
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Last edited by dajo; 07-22-2011 at 09:28 PM.
I don't feel there was any racial propaganda here. I think we can all agree that they were over-exaggerating racial neutrality, because lets face it, someone will always find a way to twist something that anyone says into racism. I'm saying this as a black man in America. People are overly jumpy in this country to accuse someone of racism, even when the very opposite is true. Funny, because really, there's no such thing as "race" apart from the human race. Just ethnicities. |
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Here's the thing, from my perspective: when was the last time the UK was attacked by arabs? It was an entire decade ago, and only fifty people died. And yet since then, the word 'terrorist' has been fucking everywhere in our news. Constantly the politicians are talking about anti-terrorism laws (which allow you to be detained for no reason), anti-terrorism wars (which have killed ten times more nationals than the terrorism), etc. etc. etc. Who gives a shit?? A thousandfold more people have died from, I don't know, goddamn diabetes. And of course, the only reason the public feels any semblance of terror because of this minuscule issue, which it rarely actually does anyway, is because the government and the press are constantly screaming at it to feel terrorised. We even have a numbered fucking system to tell us EXACTLY HOW MUCH FUCKING TERROR YOU SHOULD BE FEELING RIGHT NOW because of brown people. |
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I agree that everybody is overly alarmist about terrorism, but it's a reality that over the last 50 years, islamic groups have been responsible for an overwhelming majority of high profile global terrorism. It's something the whole muslim community will have to live with for a long time, in the same way that Germans are associated with Nazis and Native Americans with scalping savages. |
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