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Saturday, June 6. 2020

Advice from Vice: How to Talk to Relatives Who Care More About Looting Than Black Lives

If you're not Black but want to support BLM, having fraught conversations with your kinda (or definitely) racist loved ones will likely not be fun, but it’s a very worthy undertaking.


Written by a young white lady, of course. She probably never tried to run even a candy shop.


If I had my own shop, I would confront looters with firearms. My "shop", so to speak, is in an office suite up in a building in Manhattan, and the corona mess has damaged our business enough already.


Being constructive is so hard, but being destructive is a no-brainer. 

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 14:19 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

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Finally: Remember that the fact that your relatives are engaging with you at all is a good thing.

Is this ditz on drugs? The majority of engagements with this kind of relative are either (a) an attempt to suck you in to some godawful hillbilly version of A Streetcar Named Desire, or (b) a thinly-veiled dodge to "borrow" money.

I look forward to Rachel Miller's follow-up article, "How to Talk to Relatives Who Think You're a Waste of Space."
#1 Mike Anderson (Link) on 2020-06-06 14:30 (Reply)
I think it might be right to ask "which black lives matter"? I'm thinking of the ex-police captain in St. Louis who was killed. Or the senior citizen who no longer has a place to buy groceries. Or the shop owner who was already living on fumes because of COVID and now has lost everything. Travesty is the word, not protest.
#2 NEBrooks (Link) on 2020-06-06 16:00 (Reply)
This is silly. BLM is a racist left wing activists group. It isn't about black lives at all it is about profiting from racism. The only meaningful result from this latest racist craziness is that more black youth will be killed and of course blacks will seek out whites to kill in "retribution".
#3 OneGuy on 2020-06-06 16:32 (Reply)
BLM wouldn't exist without sniveling, white leftists climbing all over each other to prove just how much they're down with the struggle.

They can all go to hell.
#4 jimg on 2020-06-06 16:41 (Reply)
Yes, I think that sentiment is growing quietly in many different, formerly tolerant places.

F*ck'em.....F*ck'em, and make'm eat fish heads.
#4.1 Aggie on 2020-06-06 18:09 (Reply)
http://heyjackass.com/ This site explains in great detail who is
killing who. I am so sick of these hypocrites on the left.
#5 Haze Grtay on 2020-06-06 17:11 (Reply)
Thanks for this link!
#5.1 NEBrooks (Link) on 2020-06-06 22:04 (Reply)
You would not confront the looters with guns. Use your dang bear spray--it's environmentally friendly!
#6 Apple Pie on 2020-06-06 18:25 (Reply)
There’s abut 15 people I like more than my dog and maybe 60 I like more than a random dog....soooo...long winded appeals to my race, gender, class or whatever else about what I “should do” are unlikely to have any effect whatsoever.
#7 DblTap on 2020-06-07 08:53 (Reply)
I think black lives are a matter for black people to take care of. They keep saying white people are the problem, and it's up to white people to fix it, but what are THEY doing about black lives? Are they telling their young men to stop killing each other? Are they telling their young women to stop having babies by multiple men, none of whom are going to marry or support them? Are they going to run the drug dealers out of their neighborhoods? Are they going to stop burning down the minority-owned businesses in their neighborhoods? If they do all that, then maybe we have something to talk about.
#8 RebeccaH on 2020-06-07 11:01 (Reply)
That sounds like responsibility. It's a good idea.
#8.1 barnhill on 2020-06-07 13:38 (Reply)
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1976 and 2011, there were 279,384 black murder victims. Using the 94 percent figure means that 262,621 were murdered by other blacks.
BLM is full of BS
#9 T on 2020-06-07 11:33 (Reply)
The west built this great world we live in, I will never kneel to the beasts of any colour who wish to destroy it and to destroy my family and culture.
#10 thud on 2020-06-07 12:59 (Reply)
"Being constructive is so hard, but being destructive is a no-brainer. "

Statement of the Decade!!
#11 Bill Adams (Link) on 2020-06-08 14:49 (Reply)

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