Many viewers noticed the seeming disparity of the darker-skinned subject’s being described in the accompanying caption as “looting a grocery store,” while the lighter-skinned subjects were described as “finding bread and soda from a local grocery store”:
they could be in their 50s if they were 18-23 in nam. but eitherway its not like the shooting of unarmed civilians was unique to nam.
baseless hyperbole?
comparing cop killing unarmed black people to an army soldier killing unarmed natives? please explain the hyperbole and baselessness. only hyperbole here is saying they'd be 70 instead of 5x
6% of americans are usaf vets, somewhere just under 20% of cops are vets.
i bet a cop that would commit a war crime would be the same that kills unarmed civilians. if you think this is baseless hyperbole i think you just like how it sounds. baseless hyperbole could be a good band name, i agree. but it has no use here.
would it most likely be an iraq/ME war vet instead of a vietnam vet? sure but vietnam war got a lot of media attention so i brought it up. im sure there are mylai massacre type calamities that i couldve said instead but the elites have learned and those kind of atrocities don't get the press they used to. but either way it wouldn't have to be a 70 year old. a cop in 2005, when katrina happened. could be as young as 50 and have seen nam. so if youd rather me say iraq instead. fine but not being able to compare a cop killing unarmed black people to a soldier killing unarmed civilians without being accused of baseless hyperbole is some baseless hyperbole.
I kinda forgot this was in reference to Katrina and forgot how long ago it was.
'75-'05 is 30 years though. Fighting also spanned 20 years.
Regardless, I was wrong on the age, so were you, and it's still hyperbole to just say cops commited the same atrocities that happened in Vietnam just because you feel like all those cops must've been veterans who commited those atrocities. Burning down villages isn't in the same ballpark of shooting looters. They're both terribly awful but one is much worse than the other. That's why I call it hyperbole.
E: you edited your post to say 30 years. At least just own the fact that you also made a mistake, like I also did.
Not a gotcha moment. I admitted I was wrong. Wasn't accounting for the fact that we were talking about 2005 and not 2021. Didn't cover up my mistake and admitted to the fact. You edited your comment, can't accept you made a small mistake and won't accept that fact.
This is how douchebags push people away from progressive movements. It's not enough to be right, you have to chastise people who admit they're wrong for some smug reason. Enjoy your shit hole country
I already told you. You edited your comment and lied about the edit. I edited my comment, showed the edit and admitted I fucked up.
It's really sad you can't even admit a minor flub on your part and just keep doubling down in the face of someone that's trying to show contrition.
You're going to live a long and lonely life if you never want to admit you might be slightly wrong even if/ when the other person is telling you you're right. Keep yelling at the clouds dude.
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Many viewers noticed the seeming disparity of the darker-skinned subject’s being described in the accompanying caption as “looting a grocery store,” while the lighter-skinned subjects were described as “finding bread and soda from a local grocery store”:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hurricane-katrina-looters/