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A picture of George Floyd with the text “Democrats: ‘I don’t know how you can support a felon.’”
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The differences, racist assholes, are that one, nobody’s demanding Floyd to become POTUS, and two, we’re merely sympathizing with Floyd’s death, not worshipping him as the second Messiah.
Oh, and also while I forgot Floyd’s exact felonies, I’m pretty sure they aren’t as severe as what Trump pulled.
George Floyd is the wrong person to bring up. He was murdered by police before conviction. It’s unlikely he was guilty of passing a fake 20 but it isn’t clear. Since he was dead that was never established publicly.
Once a person is under arrest and in police custody, the police are responsible for his or her well-being. It doesn't matter what crime the suspect has been arrested for -- that's why they're called "a suspect" and not "a felon". They are still considered innocent because they haven't been proven guilty in a court of law.
The police killed an innocent man. That's why people marched, because they understand that it could happen to any of us. If conservatives had an ounce of empathy, they would understand this, too.
@JM1234 , @Sasha :
We never wanted to give him launch codes, but we didn’t think he deserved to be murdered in the street.
People haven't excused Floyd's crimes. Haven't been willing to compromise national security for him. Oh and didn't support him in as much as hated how his death was a symptom of institutional racism, Trump is symptom of how the fsr right are fascists. How theocrats threw their fucking beliefs and dogma away for political expediency. There's a difference
I think at least some of these assholes know that we don’t worship Floyd. But, since they can’t come out and argue with us honestly (that they totally support extrajudicial killings as long as it’s not them), they try to derail the conversation by making fun of us.
And of course others of them are just following their leaders’ examples and making fun of us because “ha ha racism and murder are so funny ha ha”. 🤢🤮
"Not Trump for president means dead Floyd for president!" stupid nonsense... As ridiculous as the false Trump persecution complex premise, especially considering how Trump is treated with white gloves for being a rich white. The exact opposite of what happened to Floyd who was not even allowed to face trial and was murdered instead. Your nazi society fantasies defeat your own argument.
@Bastethotep #200702
You're quite right, but if ever a criminal had turned his life around, it was George Floyd. From his Wikipedia entry:
Between 1997 and 2005, he was convicted of eight crimes. He served four years in prison after accepting a plea bargain for a 2007 aggravated robbery in a home invasion. After he was paroled in 2013, he served as a mentor in his religious community and posted anti-violence videos to social media.
The most important point is that even if Floyd HAD been guilty when arrested, his death was still murder. And murder is always wrong. No matter what color you are.
Now if only conservatives would accept that.
Emantic Bradford Jr, Trayvon Martin, Breonna Taylor… The country wanted those conversations to end as quickly and quietly as possible.
George Floyd with an actual arrest record and not a high school suspension? Suddenly you’re willing to keep the conversation going and make years of a continuing practice about one person. Because the name of the day is incidental to the ongoing issue you feel confident trash talking the one person to avoid talking about the ongoing issue. That’s the name you suffered to have a national platform. That’s the name you were willing to say on networks you won’t claim are controlled by "the libs” and the networks you’ll call “the libs” when realistically they’re still firmly more inclined to cater to you but pay lip service to fairness.
YOU made it about “supporting” George Floyd because his name is the only one you’ll call present for at the meeting. The others you have to work a lot harder to bury in an avalanche of derailing trash talk even with the non-existent bar for credibility and how eagerly such slander is slurped up like filth from a trough. We support the law and human rights as they are written, not as something one half of the population throws in the face of the other whilst lazily invoking something they throw a tantrum over when the issue is pressed or details are spelled out.
Also nobody’s nominating George Floyd for a position of political power. Certainly not in a political climate where some politicians literally call for ethnic cleansing and making all three branches of government subservient to a single office that needs no approval and it is somehow acceptable. But if we’re to flip your insinuation around is that you telling us to handle our problematic felon in the same way?
Confused?
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