You didn't address his point.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

Address Anderson Cooper not being subjected to cancel culture attacks?

I'm not a fan of cancel culture attacks. I'm glad Cooper is not being subjected to them.

How's that?

The Fox guarding the henhouse is one of the biggest issues with respect to prosecuting police for their indiscretions. The guys doing the "investigating" are often the ones responsible for committing the crimes. It's always going to be tough to get a fair shake with this being the case.

That's a really interesting point that I had never considered.

Maybe all police prosecutions should be performed by an independent body, not an ad hoc special prosecutor, but an adversarial office set up exclusively for those prosecutions. Keep the political decision to prosecute out of the hands of the SA and the task out of the hands of assistants who must then later work with police. It wouldn't have to be a huge office.

Dr West on a roll.

That's a really interesting point that I had never considered.

Maybe all police prosecutions should be performed by an independent body, not an ad hoc special prosecutor, but an adversarial office set up exclusively for those prosecutions. Keep the political decision to prosecute out of the hands of the SA and the task out of the hands of assistants who must then later work with police. It wouldn't have to be a huge office.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

That's pretty evasive in light of what's actually going on. You seem to be- at least tacitly- supporting the concept that the mere existence of someone like Anderson Cooper is "problematic". The fact that he is a useful tool in promoting said agenda is what stops him from being first against the wall. I think Big Chicagoan made a cogent point that you don't want to address because you really can't.

Isn't there already a sort of OIG body or something like that?

I wish we could remove John Cusack from the discussion.

I'm back and forth on West. He says crazy shit that gets buried in his mountain of words sometimes. At the same time, I think he has integrity. I don't get the feeling he is self serving or carrying someone else's water.

Well that's pretty stupid.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Well that's pretty stupid.

Why even mention Cusack then? He's not germane to the discussion.

for the same reason people respond to the poster and not the post

Abortion is more readily available and acceptable in your community. As is drug use.

Same reason people would try to make it about AC rather than what Cornell West had to say for over 9 minutes on live air?

what's the deal with Cooper now ?

Among civil-rights activists today, talk of black self-destructive behavior is unpopular and minimal. Writing in Commentary magazine last month, Jason Hill, a professor of philosophy at DePaul University, noted the hypocrisy of groups like Black Lives Matter, who “want white people to esteem black lives and value the humanity of black people when they themselves can’t condemn and express moral outrage at those who maim and kill black children in the course of gang warfare, senseless street violence, and drive-by shootings.”

Mr. Hill added that the “moral hysteria raised by a few incidents of police brutality in the face of this larger national tragedy is reckless hyperbole” and “hides from the nation a deep malaise at work in the psyche of some in the black community: a form of self-hatred that manifests itself in a homicidal rage not fundamentally against white people, but against other black people.” [/i]

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

That's pretty evasive in light of what's actually going on. You seem to be- at least tacitly- supporting the concept that the mere existence of someone like Anderson Cooper is "problematic". The fact that he is a useful tool in promoting said agenda is what stops him from being first against the wall. I think Big Chicagoan made a cogent point that you don't want to address because you really can't.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

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Don't know about the "self hatred" part but there is some legitimacy ito what the guy says. In order for Black Lives Matter to be taken seriously they are going to have to expand their message and include crime and violence in black communities. There has to be some accountability there as well. It just cannot be about Cops killing or targeting black people.

The premise behind the movement is in their title. Well if that's the case then black on black crime cannot be excluded from the discussion.

I also hope that they will expand it so that economics are included. Racism is not just a social tool, it's an economic tool also. Their is an economic downside to it which is very much pervasive. As such it cannot be ignored.

He's a Vanderbilt and Big Chicagoan is upset that AC is not facing attacks from the Cancel Culture crowd.

Incorrect on the second part. Shouldn’t always be so quick to jump to conclusions. I was just pointing out hypocrisy in media and society. I’m completely against cancel culture and the like. But in today’s climate, it is the new reality for many. An awful byproduct of the new America.

Incorrect on the second part. Shouldn’t always be so quick to jump to conclusions. I was just pointing out hypocrisy in media and society. I’m completely against cancel culture and the like. But in today’s climate, it is the new reality for many. An awful byproduct of the new America.

who is carrying more than a Vanderbilt?

He's a Vanderbilt

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

What does this mean?

WSJ 2018:
Nationally, black women terminate pregnancies at far higher rates than other women as well. In 2014, 36% of all abortions were performed on black women, who are just 13% of the female population. The little discussed flip side of “reproductive freedom” is that abortion deaths far exceed those via cancer, violent crime, heart disease, AIDS and accidents. Racism, poverty and lack of access to health care are the typical explanations for these disparities. But black women have much higher abortion rates even after you control for income. Moreover, other low-income ethnic minorities who experience discrimination, such as Hispanics, abort at rates much closer to white women than black women.

The more plausible explanation may have to do with marriage. Unmarried women are more likely to experience an unintended pregnancy, and black women are less likely than their white, Asian and Hispanic counterparts to marry. It’s true that many of these would-be partners are sitting in prison, but it’s also true that this racial divide in marriage, which started in the 1960s and has grown ever since, predates the “mass incarceration” of black men that took off in the 1980s.

Among civil-rights activists today, talk of black self-destructive behavior is unpopular and minimal. Writing in Commentary magazine last month, Jason Hill, a professor of philosophy at DePaul University, noted the hypocrisy of groups like Black Lives Matter, who “want white people to esteem black lives and value the humanity of black people when they themselves can’t condemn and express moral outrage at those who maim and kill black children in the course of gang warfare, senseless street violence, and drive-by shootings.”

Mr. Hill added that the “moral hysteria raised by a few incidents of police brutality in the face of this larger national tragedy is reckless hyperbole” and “hides from the nation a deep malaise at work in the psyche of some in the black community: a form of self-hatred that manifests itself in a homicidal rage not fundamentally against white people, but against other black people.”

There wont be. And its got nothing to do with black people or white people or anything racial. It's just to do with these times were in where NOBODY takes accountability for anything. Not the president, not the people...not anyone. We desperately need some sort of paradigm shift.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.