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  1. TheLeviathan
    Gerrymandering can be undone if you work hard enough to make it happen. Will it be hard? Yes. It will. And that seems to be part of this - "what's the easiest thing I can do to help this?" That's not a mentality for change. As for the boycotts you could put pressure on the city, who employs the police, by organizing boycotts that directly fund the city to put more pressure on them to change things. Again - if you want the lazy way - go ahead and lay in the road. I don't believe that's how anything changes, though.
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    I believe protests, like hastags, are ineffectual for the most part. What should people do? Well, getting out and voting would seem to me to be at the top of the list. Boycotts have had a much better track record of success as well. Do more on the organization end of things. This? This is the same BS thinking that makes people believe adding a hashtag on Twitter is changing the world. It's not. It's empty. I think Psuedo said it best earlier - it's grandstanding and righteousness. Not strategy.
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    Yes, there was a march in Selma. There was also a direct, purposeful reason for it. They wanted to show how determined they were to vote by marching over 50 miles to demonstrate their commitment. They did not lay in the road chanting to annoy people into changing. Are the differences not stark? That's the difference between a meaningful protest and one that basically has the same effect as a hashtag.
  4. TheLeviathan
    Good article on Simmons' new site.
  5. TheLeviathan
    There's a lot to unpack here that you blurred together. To the first thing - if your tactic isn't working, pick a new tactic. Laying in the road, so far as I know, is not the only tactic available. I'll ask again - what "awareness" are you creating that wasn't already created by Castille's death, the subsequent events in Dallas, and non-stop media coverage? This isn't 1960, awareness is pretty easy to gain. What you are comparing these to are not in the same ballpark. This isn't thousands of people demonstrating, it's a small bunch trying to overcome their lack of numbers with degree of annoyance in tactics. I don't think it works that way and it certainly doesn't seem to be working.
  6. TheLeviathan
    Not all forms of "uncomfortable" effect change. You have to make them uncomfortable with what is happening, not with your tactics for opposing it. Basically, you seem to be arguing that you think it's sound strategy to annoy people into changing things and hoping that the annoyed reaction delivers your desired result. I don't find that reasoning very compelling.
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    If we're going to compare this to Rosa Parks, then the parallel is Castille's death. That's what truly sparks attention. Are these highway sit-ins informing someone that somehow missed that it happened? That seems to be the argument some of you are making. If it's not that, then what is the effect of these? From my vantage point, the effect most evident is that it is casting a lot of neutral people into a "frustrated" stance with BLM and anyone else protesting for the same cause.
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    But Dr. King and Gandhi were doing more than just sitting or marching in roads. I don't disagree that protests, as a small part of a larger effort, cna have some effect, but I'd put them towards the bottom of hte list of effective ways to get your point across or create change.
  9. TheLeviathan
    I'd argue the second point. A pissed off person who doesn't agree with you is a net loss compared to an idle person. Also, to cure whatever "ignorance" you are going for, your message needs to be what shines brightest, not your tactic. If it's your tactic that gets the most attention than you are failing to accomplish what your aim is.
  10. TheLeviathan
    The protests accomplished that? Boycotts were far more effective, not protests. But please, correct me if I'm wrong, were small groups of 90 people sitting on interstates the reason why women's suffrage and civil rights were achieved? Or did people put their efforts into politics, voting, boycotts, and a host of more effective practices than sitting like a lump on a road?
  11. TheLeviathan
    Yeah, Pence is a huge schmuck.
  12. TheLeviathan
    I don't think protests are effective in general. These gain no traction, at least in the way they aim. Might be lots of negative traction.
  13. TheLeviathan
    It seems you are making a lot of assumptions about how frequently stops are dangerous as well as assumptions about how effective stops are. I'm not really comfortable about either set of assumptions.
  14. TheLeviathan
    It all falls apart for me when you consider how much harm/negativity it can cause versus the gains. These are dumb, ineffectual, and potentially dangerous.
  15. TheLeviathan
    You're probably, sadly, right.
  16. TheLeviathan
    Look, I think the choice of "Black Lives Matter" as a name for the movement was unwise. It causes confusion and is easy for thsoe that want to confuse things to lead others astray. But the term "All Lives Matter" is a rebuke. It's dismissive. Brock already laid it out well, but whatever your intentions the effect is what matters.
  17. TheLeviathan
    Count me glad that, in that specific case, we didn't listen to Twins Daily. We need to remember, being a "big" move doesn't mean the same as being a "good" move. Put me in the camp of wanting more smart moves, whatever those may be. Jepsen? Not smart. Tulo? Not smart. "Insert stupid extension given here"? Not smart. We've been way too far on the "not smart" side of things for too long.
  18. TheLeviathan
    Play the kids. 'Nuff said.
  19. TheLeviathan
    I think this is the offseason we find a way to get Mauer off this roster. In fact, I'd make it priority #1.
  20. TheLeviathan
    Or the dude in Sweden who went to a youth camp and killed dozens to preserve their culture. Because apparently more than 1% of the population being anything other than blonde hair/blue eyes is an insufferable degree of diversity. I really hate when people pat Europe in the back in these situations. Europe doesn't deserve one ounce of it. And, sorry North, neither does Canada. Canada has basically one racial population to worry about and they basically try to ignore that problem as much as possible. Mike - it's not a cop-out. We have to be better. But don't tell me how swell Europe is at the same time, because that's just bunk.
  21. TheLeviathan
    Great article Nick. The real problem here is that Ryan bristles at the notion of spending 15M on the open market but he's willing to deal a solid prospect (and money! What did we end up giving Jepsen for 1.5 seasons? 7-8 million? It's not like Jepsen didn't end up costing money too) to get a reliever. Is there anyone here that wouldn't give up 6 million dollars for Hu? No? Because that's exactly what we did, we decided we'd rather give up Hu to save a handful of millions. That's just so fundamentally flawed as a strategy.
  22. TheLeviathan
    And all of this from countries who largely have less than half of the racial diversity our country has. (Some much, much less than half)
  23. TheLeviathan
    Absolutely. Europe has a lot of latent (and sometimes not so latent) anti-semitism amongst many other issues. In fact, I'd argue the biggest difference is demographics. Western Europe is still largely white. (UK - 83%, Germany 92%, France 90% whereas the US is 75%. Since it was mentioned - Canada's non-white population is 11%) It's easier to have more stable race relations when you exported your worst racial problems centuries ago and kept most of your country so homogeneous that you don't have much conflict.
  24. TheLeviathan
    Samuel L. Jackson is nothing short of a national treasure.
  25. TheLeviathan
    We have a unique problem partly because we are a uniquely formed country. Western Europe exported their racism, classism, and other problems to their colonies. It's not an excuse, we can do much better, but sometimes I think Europe gets a free pass despite their legacies left to others to figure out.
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