Spurs coaches Gregg Popovich, Becky Hammon stand during anthem

No! Why are she's constantly shoving their she-ness down our throats!

 

Shouldn't it be more like NateBishopXXXX since I'm turning 40 in a month?

 

Or Ji

 

when you think about it...saying "no politics" is actually a political statement itself

that's right CC...I'm asking you to think real real hard about your insistence on making things political around here. Tyranny is politics. You should lighten up. Vodka helps

 

those that stay home and those that go around the whirled?

 

And how fucked up some people are in this country

 

Many such instances of hypocrisy exist. Daniel Shaver's wife's go fund me was a pittance and embarrassment compared to George Floyd's and the justice system did nothing but mock her plight. Crickets amongst the likes of Pops and Hammon and kneeling players. Those whom most profess to stand for equality these days are most often the most discriminatory. The white man in Phoenix(not Daniel Shaver), who was shot dead answering his apartment door in an instant was killed not even a week before George Floyd. I saw the video, he didn't do anything wrong. He wasn't even accused of a crime. He's dead, not a one of you cares.


Edit: White woman was killed in Arkansas by police two weeks after George Floyd. No gun found in car. No body cam footage. No further questions. No further political gain. Erased. Not a name.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/17/sand-s17.html

 

Everyone doesn't respond to every situation the same.

The changes that would have saved Floyd would likely save Shaver and the other guy as well.

 

No shit, that's why it's hypocrisy. Also, what changes are you even talking about? Is there some of kind of change in reality now where people actually care about Daniel Shaver? Last I saw his wife was posting on tiktok that she without a car and was soon going to be losing her home(two small children they had together). The police department allowed the killer to buy back the gun used to kill him. The killer was allowed to be rehired so that he could retire on medical disability related to the PTSD he claims to have gotten from shooting Daniel Shaver. He lives on taxpayer dime for the rest of his life while Daniel Shaver's wife can't even fill a go fund me that has been up for years to bring a civil trial.

 

It's not hypocrisy. It's unreasonable to expect people to respond to all 3 situations the same.

It's not a competition. Floyd's death was far more public and brutal than the other two so it received more attention.

But the attention it received could help prevent all 3 situations from happening again. You can't expect different instances to be received equally by society, and getting angry about that is just being unrealistic.

 

Have you not seen the public demonstrations demanding police accountability and advocating for improved training and higher employment standards. Pleading for expanded use of non-lethal expertise?

These kinds of efforts (if successful) can help prevent future Shaver and Floyd tragedies. Keep the pressure on.

But the two camps competing against each other is just the kind of ignorance which will maintain the status quo.