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Thug Cop Smashes Woman's Face Over DUI

blankfist says...

I didn't say there was "blanket support or hate" for cops. You doth project your own vintage of bullshit into every post, don't ye?

VoodooV said:

@blankfist, what sift have you been visiting? There has never been blanket support or hate for the cops here.

We've gone both ways depending on the situation.

Critical thinking, you should try it sometime

Thug Cop Smashes Woman's Face Over DUI

Thug Cop Smashes Woman's Face Over DUI

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Malala Yousafzai nearly leaves Jon Stewart speechless

Malala Yousafzai nearly leaves Jon Stewart speechless

Malala Yousafzai nearly leaves Jon Stewart speechless

Malala Yousafzai nearly leaves Jon Stewart speechless

blankfist says...

I like that idea. But it's essentially the same as civil disobedience. When people use peaceful noncompliance to combat violence and coercion. But, again, it's nothing outside of the norm. I applaud what she's saying, but I certainly do not see why anyone would be "speechless" and shocked as if it were revelational somehow.

bcglorf said:

I was referring to the idea of steadfastly facing down violence with nothing but a message of peace and goodwill. It can turn the tide of public opinion against her attackers.

Malala Yousafzai nearly leaves Jon Stewart speechless

blankfist says...

I think I understand you, but correct me if I'm wrong. You're saying it's powerful not for what she's saying, but because of the context of her being a female activist for education in an area of the world with typically extreme patriarchal resistance to these ideas. Yeah?

Context is important, I suppose. It's just that talking about peace and education isn't new. And I wonder if in twenty years from now if some woman raised in a primitive tribe in the bush stood up and said "peace and education!" will we, Westerners, all again be awestruck like Jon Stewart in this video? It just seems ridiculous to be shocked and "speechless" over something so pedestrian and accepted in our culture.

bcglorf said:

It's not revelational, it's powerful.

That said, I think I'm too much of a realist and still believe leaders like her require people protecting them with the force required to stop people like the Taliban. Benazir Bhutto was in many ways a grown version of many of Malala's own ideals, and she is now dead at the hands of the same militant fanatics that tried to kill Malala. Female politicians in Pakistan have a regrettably short life expectancy, much like any male politicians who support them or anything remotely secular. For example the two politicians assassinated in the last year and a bit for asking to lift the death penalty for the crime of blasphemy.

Pakistan is in the middle of a very bloody war between the people like Malala and the people who tried to kill her. The trouble is the side we relate with is being decimated by assassinations which are either killing the moderates outright, or forcing them from the country to safety but more limited impact within Pakistan. Bhutto was similarly in exile for a long while for the same concerns, which proved out to be all to well founded.

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