2016 Postmortem

dr60omg

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13. Gang violence has always been a "thing"

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 07:24 PM

Feb 2016

What was West Side Story about?
What was "Blackboard Jungle" both the book and the movie
We can go back through history

The cartels are not gangs and had the drug war stayed in Colombia it would not be as close to us in Mexico as it is ... If, you want to compare the cartels to gangs you should use a comparison to the Mafia of the 1930's ...

There is a reality to what transpired in the 1990's and to say it has been going on for decades is to diminish the transformation of how we look at young people, at how we look at schools and the draconian policies instated in the 1990's which created the idea of the super-predator ... that tough on crime approach of the 1990's did many things including privatize our schools (as part of the neo-liberal transformation to charters and vouchers), and the militarization of the police, three strikes you're out and on and on and on

This was an entirely new sort of accusatory formation!

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Can we stop pretending that gang violence... [View all] MirrorAshes Feb 2016 OP

Who is pretending gang violence isn't real? arcane1 Feb 2016 #1

She has a long history of racist dog-whistles. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #2

I don't think she's racist. It was a racist thing to say. morningfog Feb 2016 #3

Hillary did not phrase this well and I understand why offense was taken leftofcool Feb 2016 #4

She hasn't apologized Arazi Feb 2016 #18

Do they? I'd question that if someone called my son a super-predator. The "blacks as brutes" Ed Suspicious Feb 2016 #26

Looking at statistics, the juvenile crime rate had not increased when she said those words. Avalux Feb 2016 #5

She may not directly participate in malicious bigotry loyalsister Feb 2016 #6

Exactly how is she "willing to exploit and enable white supremacy?" MoonRiver Feb 2016 #8

I assume you've seen the video from the SC event loyalsister Feb 2016 #11

Your impression of that event is completely different from mine. MoonRiver Feb 2016 #15

Did you not hear the hissing? NWCorona Feb 2016 #36

And stood silently while the white women in the crowd hissed! NWCorona Feb 2016 #35

And they watched as SS manhandled her loyalsister Feb 2016 #37

She pivoted away while she was grabbed hauled away NWCorona Feb 2016 #38

Yes I believe she is, she is part of that white privelige crowd, its is ingrained in them. litlbilly Feb 2016 #7

ALL white people are part of the white privilege crowd leftofcool Feb 2016 #10

I don't think she's racist, I think she's opportunistic. TIME TO PANIC Feb 2016 #9

Get real? Those policies filled our prisons with pot smokers. Warren DeMontague Feb 2016 #12

Gang violence has always been a "thing" dr60omg Feb 2016 #13

It's all Hillary hate all the time here MaggieD Feb 2016 #14

Actually, it's political facts that Hillary supporters seem to run from trillion Feb 2016 #16

LOL! MaggieD Feb 2016 #20

Wow. All it take is google to vet. It's a quick search. trillion Feb 2016 #21

I'm not showing any substance or integrity because... MaggieD Feb 2016 #24

Really? trillion Feb 2016 #25

You're not listening MaggieD Feb 2016 #29

It's only a smear if it's not true. trillion Feb 2016 #39

She thinks Google is a right-wing web site. jeff47 Feb 2016 #30

I'm biding my time ... NurseJackie Feb 2016 #17

Putting facts infront of you is not bulling. trillion Feb 2016 #22

I dont believe she is a racist but I do believe she made a political calculation to court them. libtodeath Feb 2016 #19

The Clintons have often stood aside while African-Americans were screwed over. Orsino Feb 2016 #23

I don't think they stepped aside. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #28

It's fine to face up to gang violence. HassleCat Feb 2016 #27

Frankly, I thought the language she used was fine. NaturalHigh Feb 2016 #31

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2016 #32

The gangs, and "superpredators" are the oligarchs, and their minions, who preserve the Zorra Feb 2016 #33

I think she is a racist. Cheese Sandwich Feb 2016 #34