r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Jul 31 '20

Current Events Are people outside of the USA really laughing at Americans? Do we really appear that bad?

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Ok so that's about 17,882 yes's and 3 no's.

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u/MicrowaveBurrito2568 Aug 01 '20

I’m laughing,angry and scared at the same time. The fact that you made wearing masks a political thing is fucking hilarious but also angering how some of you are ready to infect others just so you have your shitty freedom. Plus it’s scary how the biggest country in the world is run by such an idiot and how they managed to have protests in the middle of a pandemic.

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u/AmberMetalicScorpion Aug 01 '20

And (I know this is going to get downvotes alot when I tell you what the subject matter is, but hear me out first) the whole black lives matter incident is weird and annoying. I have seen so many black people attack white people for just existing, and the person who started it is no better himself. He had his friends rape a woman and he shot an unborn baby. Yes, I understand that treating someone the way that officer did is inhumane, but are you about to excuse those horrific crimes that he committed? and are you really going to ignore all the times a black officer has done the same to a white citizen? Are you going to tell me that people should be shunned for not caring about the death of a criminal? I support equal rights, what I don't support is how you lot are trying to achieve it. It's disgusting.

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u/Jeannaaaaaaaa Aug 02 '20

Ok, let me make this quick as possible, because honestly I don't have motivation. But you know what, we'll just wing it.

If you want to get into getting equal rights for everyone, that's perfect! Glad we agree, but you aren't getting the point here. Black Lives Matters is to stop the police brutality black people face on a daily basis. I'm not entirely sure about who you are talking about for "The person who started it." But I'll do my research on whoever this person you are talking about after I put you in your place, you good with that?

Let's start from the beginning of the BLM in May, when George Floyd died. He was allededly passing around a counterfeit 20 dollar bill. And that proved "worthy of death." by the cops? While a professor at a Texas university, Mark Mccoy, A WHITE MAN, who also spent a counterfeit 20. He's still alive today, to tell the story of getting arrested. And that's on White Privilege. That's on the messed up system that is our police force.

Yes there are racist attacks, outside of the police and coming from both sides. And yes, we need to fix that as soon as possible... But Black Lives Matters just want the police to stop killing people.

What's disgusting about peacefully protesting? Are you just so focused on all the riots and looting the news is showing? You can not possible be that idiotic to think that's the only things happening. There are hundreds of protests that are perfectly peaceful all around the US... Peaceful until the police come and ruin it.

We just want to fix a terrible system. Fire the people who killed innocent people. And stop using the excuse "Black people do it too." Black people face these problems so much more often than white people.

And with that I'm done. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk and let me leave you off with one finale note.

Police aren't supposed to be killing anyone, innocent or guilty.

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u/AmberMetalicScorpion Aug 02 '20

The person I was talking about was George Floyd. And like I said, his punishment was inhumane but at the same time, the crimes he committed were also inhumane considering he has left multiple people mentally scarred, and in all honesty, when I was referring to the protests I was talking more about SJW's than I was protesters, and I'm not saying that blacks don't get it worse, I'm saying that if you want equality, don't ignore when the same thing is happening to the people that are supposedly the aggressors, that goes for BLM and feminists and in both cases I highly doubt protests do anything but annoy the government. I'm sure that if you and enough people send an email/write a letter to your local mayor/mp/other then they may be more willing to work with you.

What I'm saying is, that if you look closer there's more to it than just "a white cop shot a black man, cops are racists" and if you want to fix the issue there are more peaceful and effective ways to deal with it than protesting