Post AXSH6w3SsBTYb93J3Y by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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(DIR) Post #AXSH6w3SsBTYb93J3Y by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-07-07T05:14:12Z
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#wembanyama 's security guard *should* be fired. Not because he backhanded Britney Spears, and Brittany is a celebrity. Not because he backhanded "a woman," and "men shouldn't hit women." But because he failed to do his job, which was "Protect the client."I don't mean because Britney was able to touch Victor. Protecting the client means protecting their person as well as their reputation. That means correctly assessing the threat/risk. No one needed violence, regardless of fame or gender.
(DIR) Post #AXSH6wq1xcK91lm5ku by Are0h@ubiqueros.com
2023-07-07T05:31:45.521Z
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Agreed. A bodyguard's job is to de-escalate and protect the client. They failed at both. With a client that high profile, that can't happen.This was a minor incident that's now an ugly story because of a person's lack of professionalism and restraint.
(DIR) Post #AXSH6xYhHY3LGIflNQ by Jeramee@mastodon.social
2023-07-07T06:32:36Z
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@Are0h @mekkaokereke Deescalation needs to become a cultural value.I was taught to deescalate when I took care of mentally ill folk. My sensei also taught this as the first step to any confrontation.But our culture didn't value this. From our movies, to foreign policy, to police policy and procedure manuals, de-escalation is missing.Thanks for pointing that out.
(DIR) Post #AXSH6yH0cnUxTjP9Rg by saltedcream@mastodon.social
2023-07-07T10:45:39Z
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@Jeramee @Are0h @mekkaokereke I blame all the lead poisoning creating swaths of aggressive, blood-thirsty individuals, who then created media and raised children. Poisoning an entire generation with leaded gasoline has really taken its toll.
(DIR) Post #AXSH6yv4DrXbTy98sq by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-07-07T05:18:28Z
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A security detail's need to move a client through a busy area, does not supercede the people in that area's need to be safe.I understand that Victor is new to the US, and new to this level of fortune and fame. But there are many security crews that can do this without slapping people in the face.This is separate from the fact that the security detail should have already known that Britney was in the area. Not knowing means that they weren't in touch with hotel security, or the other detail.
(DIR) Post #AXSH6z7pSPkW7Y7Km8 by Jeramee@mastodon.social
2023-07-07T12:44:30Z
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@saltedcream @Are0h @mekkaokereke It's quite possibly a factor, but our nation has had a strong authoritarian inclination from the start. The development of left theories has caused authoritarian reactionary policies for over a century. These reactionaries have gone so far that Repubs are now fully fash, and Dems try to sympathize with them to give them cover.
(DIR) Post #AXSH6zu2ZAJWX4fpvE by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-07-07T13:13:21Z
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@Jeramee @saltedcream @Are0h This.There's a very popular chart that attempts to correlate the rise in violent crime with the rise in leaded gasoline.These charts are very misleading. Because most of the violent crime committed by Americans before 1965-1970 wouldn't even have registered as violent crime, because it was done to Black people. None of the racist pogroms, mass sexual assaults, thefts etc, would even have been recorded.If you fill those in, you see a very different picture.
(DIR) Post #AXSH70bHyMuOhCuNKi by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-07-07T13:21:47Z
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@Jeramee @saltedcream @Are0h Case in point:The Tulsa "riots" alone recorded only ~36 official deaths. But reviews since then show us that up to 300 Black people were killed. That was only one single event! And we had a whole red summer...As the world has become more connected, it's become harder to keep these types of racist pogroms secret, so their number and frequency has reduced.Most violent crime in the US happens to Black folk. So any chart missing that violence, is of limited use.
(DIR) Post #AXSH71RkpIsNJvSH6u by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-07-07T13:23:16Z
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@Jeramee @saltedcream @Are0h I'm not saying go eat paint chips. Lead is bad.I'm just saying that Jeramee is right: We've always been a violent country.
(DIR) Post #AXSH71nNWuAoOzZXoe by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-07-07T05:27:06Z
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Victor hasn't played 1 NBA minute yet. But his reputation is already a little tarnished.* His nervous laughter is being interpreted as not taking his security slapping Britney seriously.* He was asked "what happened?" And he answered what happened. Media training would have told him to start his answer "First of all, I want to apologize..." Or to issue a full statement apologizing. Instead, he's now being criticized for his "non-apology."This incident exposed his lack of media training.
(DIR) Post #AXSH7290EVTFU3goWO by Jeramee@mastodon.social
2023-07-07T13:33:24Z
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@mekkaokereke @saltedcream @Are0h The more I learn about our history & politics, the more I see that America doesn't really have a Political Compass, but it's more of a line from freedom to authoritarianism. In the US, the lefty's push us to the freedom end, while capitalists, the military, religion, etc want us to bend the knee & accept the authoritarian extreme. Mix racism & bigotry into that authoritarian capitalism & ya got a big ol' fascism.
(DIR) Post #AXSH72iS6hpLG0H7mC by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
2023-07-07T14:22:44Z
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@Jeramee @mekkaokereke @saltedcream @Are0h US politics makes a lot more sense viewed through the filter of a class system. There is the capital class (the idle rich who earn by owning stuff), the skilled labor class, who make a good living from specialized knowledge, the unskilled labor class, who scrape a living by working on the factories and businesses of the capital class, and there is the "peasant" class, scraping by as best they can. It's a pyramid, and US politics is all about getting people to believe that they can climb the ladder to the top of the pyramid. As a result, taxation & regulation of the capital classes is opposed by the majority, and you can pit the unskilled labor class against the peasant class because "they're trying to take your jobs".
(DIR) Post #AXSH73jYK6IkPhnW88 by boss@xarxamontgri.masto.host
2023-07-07T15:24:59Z
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(DIR) Post #AXSH7549N0N6XsRTsG by mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
2023-07-07T13:29:15Z
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@Jeramee @saltedcream @Are0h One more...If you talk to enough old Black folk, you'll hear stories that during the depression, poor white families would sometimes just walk into a poor Black family's home and take food. Just take it.Sometimes with violence or threats of violence. Sometimes just silently. Sometimes apologetically, as in "I'm sorry. I got nothing against coloreds. It's just that... my kids need to eat..." Black families had kids too.These thefts were not reported.
(DIR) Post #AXSH760drX9xTHoC2q by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
2023-07-07T14:24:33Z
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@Jeramee @mekkaokereke @saltedcream @Are0h There's a definite feel of France c. 1765 after the Seven Years War. Worth revisiting Rousseau's "Du Contrat Social" - feels very contemporary when looking at the US.
(DIR) Post #AXSH78H1RbS0UfUIr2 by dneary@mathstodon.xyz
2023-07-07T14:43:15Z
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@Jeramee @mekkaokereke @saltedcream @Are0h The US system is what Rousseau would have called "Elective Aristocracy" - Magistrates (representatives) are chosen based on givernment by the wisest. However, we have fallen prey to one of Rousseau's warnings: "Nothing is more dangerous than the influence of private interests in public affairs; it leads to the corruption of the legislator, which is an even worse evil than the abuse of the laws by the government; it makes a substantial change in the state, and all reformation becomesimpossible."