with the recent trend of bringing up race everywhere from shampoo ads to Netflix series to fake news to fake elections I can't trust anything which mentions race in the title.
If this is true prove it in court.
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a very specific group to address. Who are these Americans protesting to "free" Australia?
Australia is currently being portrayed in the right-wing US media as being a police state due to the lockdown laws. Most of the complaints are tone-deaf and completely ignorant of the actual situation on the ground, which has rustled a few of our jimmies. Still, I don't see the relevance of that comment here. This article is about black kids getting thrown in juvie when it causes nothing but harm to both them and the…
What everyone seems to ignore, because the discourse is all so cynically partisan, is that lockdown laws are enforced by the exact same police and courts that do things like jailing black kids who never committed a crime. (Countries like Australia are definitely no better.) There was even a high-profile case in the UK where a police officer used the restrictions as pretext to kidnap, rape and murder a random woman who'd done nothing wrong and none of our the folks who'd been loudly campaigning to abolish the police questioned giving them those powers. Instead the press attacked our justice secretary for not criminalizing "misogyny"...
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#33Sending 8 year olds to jail?
This is horrendous, even for 2 days. Trully despicable.
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#34The judge, Davenport, sounds like an insane person.
No, she's just a racist. Motivated reasoning is an incredibly strong force.
(It's very tempting to regard people we strongly disagree with as insane, but it's a mistake that both impairs dealing with actual mental illness compassionately and fighting them politically. She's perfectly rational and sane, she's just reasoning from a set of beliefs and emotional values that you find abhorrent)
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Australia is currently being portrayed in the right-wing US media as being a police state due to the lockdown laws. Most of the complaints are tone-deaf and completely ignorant of the actual situation on the ground, which has rustled a few of our jimmies. Still, I don't see the relevance of that comment here. This article is about black kids getting thrown in juvie when it causes nothing but harm to both them and the…
What everyone seems to ignore, because the discourse is all so cynically partisan, is that lockdown laws are enforced by the exact same police and courts that do things like jailing black kids who never committed a crime. (Countries like Australia are definitely no better.) There was even a high-profile case in the UK where a police officer used the restrictions as pretext to kidnap, rape and murder a random woman wh…
Do you think if he hadn't had those restrictions available he wouldn't have kidnapped Sarah Everard? Surely he'd have just used something else?
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#36with the recent trend of bringing up race everywhere from shampoo ads to Netflix series to fake news to fake elections I can't trust anything which mentions race in the title. If this is true prove it in court.
Or else, you can Google "davenport children prison" and find more articles on this. Or you can follow the "source" button to get more informations about the stats used in the article.
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#38“ I’m here on a mission. It’s not a job. It’s God’s mission” So much for the separation of church and state. It’s like something from the Taliban
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny goes back a long way.
The US separation of Church and State only means that a specific church doesn't get doctrinal control. It's specifically against the Church of England setup. Doesn't mean that the voters won't insist on Christian hegemony, or even the particularly white supremacist flavours of evangelical/baptist Christianity, just that you get a choice of which Christian church to attend.
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#39I don't understand how the police are called for a playground fight? (not even serious!) And then they are allowed to arrest children? Isn't there a law against that?
There's a longstanding trend of treating black children like adults. It gets them into the school-to-prison pipeline earlier.
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#40“ I’m here on a mission. It’s not a job. It’s God’s mission” So much for the separation of church and state. It’s like something from the Taliban
The Taliban do not imprison children for crimes that don’t exist.
Somehow Blacks (kids in this case) are guilty of crimes they don’t commit.
Maybe that’s why the establishment supported Kamala Harris:
https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on...
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...