12 dead, 59 wounded after shooting at Colorado movie theater
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[QUOTE=GodKing;36867329]I've already explained to you what I meant by it and you can't get past the fact that I didn't mean it in the way that you think.[/QUOTE]
When someone told you you weren't sorry, you argued against it with this post.
[quote]I'm white, and America is a majority white nation. Let's not argue fucking semantics now, my god.[/quote]
It implies that you understood the racial undertones of that post and tried to justify it with the fact that you are white as well.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;36867367]When someone told you you weren't sorry, you argued against it with this post.
It implies that you understood the racial undertones of that post and tried to justify it with the fact that you are white as well.[/QUOTE]
I believe what he is saying is that it isn't so much racist as an observation. It is racial in that it involves race. Given how white people have (generally) been historically to the rest of humanity for the majority of written history, I could understand anyone being jaded at the face of it. I'm certainly not proud to be white, after all the betrayal, exploitation, and murder we've committed to gain our position in the world.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;36867367]When someone told you you weren't sorry, you argued against it with this post.
It implies that you understood the racial undertones of that post and tried to justify it with the fact that you are white as well.[/QUOTE]
Have you not been reading past that post? Give it a rest already, you want me to shut up, but you keep prodding.
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Has anyone here that's up in arms about it donated any money to the victims who survived, who will now have heavy medical bills to deal with?
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867379]Have you not been reading past that post?[/QUOTE]
You mean the ones where you stated that statistically most of the people in the theater were white?
While that may be true I don't see why you would make a point of that in a post that essentially compares the degree of seriousness between two tragedies.
[QUOTE=Ereunity;36851603]Who said it was even a joke. If it was a joke it would at least be funny, no?
This is a forum, I am entitled to post my opinions/thoughts on it regardless of your own.[/QUOTE]
You aren't entitled to anything.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;36867393]You mean the ones where you stated that statistically most of the people in the theater were white?
While that may be true I don't see why you would make a point of that in a post that essentially compares the degree of seriousness between two tragedies.[/QUOTE]
The colour of their skin was not my point, but rather that they're well off and until today, lived a life of relative comfort in comparison with the kid who was born, starved, and died. If you're trying to get me to admit that I'm a racist because I could have worded a sentence better, you won't. I'm not.
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867407]The colour of their skin was not my point, but rather that they're well off and until today, lived a life of relative comfort in comparison with the kid who was born, starved, and died. If you're trying to get me to admit that I'm a racist because I could have worded a sentence better, you won't. I'm not.[/QUOTE]
Well maybe next time you should take your wording into consideration when you are going to do something like compare two tragedies and then declare which one is more severe.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;36867419]Well maybe next time you should take your wording into consideration when you are going to do something like compare two tragedies and then declare which one is more severe.[/QUOTE]
Yes sir!
Come on guys, i don't really see the point in this argument if you keep on going into a circle, think about it. You guys will all keep on arguing over the same stuff, but it doesn't get you nowhere.
Can't we just end this stupid argument?
Yes.
I don't even understand why that was part of the argument. Everyone else understood and had no problem with it.
He's right if you don't want most of your online conversations to devolve into this.
[QUOTE=FreakyMe;36867434]He's right if you don't want most of your online conversations to devolve into this.[/QUOTE]
It was already explained by numerous people in numerous ways.
However, it took numerous people and an entire page to cover it.
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867407]The colour of their skin was not my point, but rather that they're well off and until today, lived a life of relative comfort in comparison with the kid who was born, starved, and died. If you're trying to get me to admit that I'm a racist because I could have worded a sentence better, you won't. I'm not.[/QUOTE]
You are quite literally a disgrace to humanity as a whole if you value one group of people over the other simply because of how the life was lived, it's not like the fucking people in Colorado lived up until they were one hundred, laced in luxuries, dying peacefully on their bed in their sleep. They went to a fucking movie and got shot, numerous times, for no good reason. You cannot compare these two scenarios at all because they're on equal amounts of unfair bullshit.
Honestly, if you're gonna keep posting, at least try and make a better argument than "LOL WHO CARES THAT THESE GUYS DIED WHEN THOSE GUYS OVER THERE DID"
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Seriously, you're acting as though the people in the theater were smiling as they were being slaughtered, at peace with the fact that they were going to die early in life.
Wow, it didn't take long for this thread to turn to shit.
[QUOTE=DamagePoint;36867451]Wow, it didn't take long for this thread to turn to shit.[/QUOTE]
I tried. Unfortunately, some people like to speak however they want without regard to it's interpreted meaning and others can get hung up on how they interpret the words of others.
[QUOTE=areolop;36867297]Just to let everyone know, I managed, with my team, to raise 6k to help the families in need in just over 8 hours in fort Collins Colorado[/QUOTE]
Holy fuck I was born there
[QUOTE=Character;36867444]You are quite literally a disgrace to humanity as a whole if you value one group of people over the other simply because of how the life was lived, it's not like the fucking people in Colorado lived up until they were one hundred, laced in luxuries, dying peacefully on their bed in their sleep. They went to a fucking movie and got shot, numerous times, for no good reason. You cannot compare these two scenarios at all because they're on equal amounts of unfair bullshit.
Honestly, if you're gonna keep posting, at least try and make a better argument than "LOL WHO CARES THAT THESE GUYS DIED WHEN THOSE GUYS OVER THERE DID"[/QUOTE]
You read the entire argument, then when it had fizzled out and looked as if it could get "back on track", you decided it was a good idea to antagonize me further by posting what multiple people have already said?
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867467]You read the entire argument, then when it had fizzled out and looked as if it could get "back on track", you decided it was a good idea to antagonize me further by posting what multiple people have already said?[/QUOTE]
In the end even though you are not a racist there is no excuse for this GodKing. You using the term 'rich white people' may have meant people who are well off when you used it, but that means that you blatantly believe that their lives have less value because of that.
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867467]You read the entire argument, then when it had fizzled out and looked as if it could get "back on track", you decided it was a good idea to antagonize me further by posting what multiple people have already said?[/QUOTE]
You could have not responded and continued with your point.
[QUOTE=Character;36867444]Seriously, you're acting as though the people in the theater were smiling as they were being slaughtered, at peace with the fact that they were going to die early in life.[/QUOTE]
Now that is a totally insane assessment, even worse than the one about my slip of the tongue.
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[QUOTE=FreakyMe;36867471]You could have not responded and continued with your point.[/QUOTE]
Everyone could have ignored what I said in that case.
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867467]You read the entire argument, then when it had fizzled out and looked as if it could get "back on track", you decided it was a good idea to antagonize me further by posting what multiple people have already said?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I fucking did, because even though what you said was old doesn't fucking mean it wasn't terrible. I'm trying to stress the fact that you are a [b] BAD PERSON [/b], because the other posts didn't seem to highlight how horrible you act.
[editline]21st July 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867473]Everyone could have ignored what I said in that case.[/QUOTE]
"its not my fault that my idiocy got people angry, it's their fault for reading what i post in a public forum!!!!"
No.
[QUOTE=Character;36867480]Yeah, I fucking did, because even though what you said was old doesn't fucking mean it wasn't terrible. I'm trying to stress the fact that you are a [b] BAD PERSON [/b], because the other posts didn't seem to highlight how horrible you act.[/QUOTE]
Let's just give it a rest so the thread can get back on the rails.
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867484]Let's just give it a rest so the thread can get back on the rails.[/QUOTE]
Honestly GodKing, your very presence in this thread is like a constant earthquake.
So long as you're here there won't be any rails for the thread to get back on.
[QUOTE=GodKing;36867484]Let's just give it a rest so the thread can get back on the rails.[/QUOTE]
You derailed it and you expect us to pick it up, you basically stripped the land of it's rails and threw them over a cliff. You didn't even genuinely try to retract what you said, all you did was "CAN YOU GUYS JUST FORGET ABOUT IT" as though that's some kind of miracle trigger phrase.
[QUOTE=Boxbot219;36867468]In the end even though you are not a racist there is no excuse for this GodKing. You using the term 'rich white people' may have meant people who are well off when you used it, but that means that you blatantly believe that their lives have less value because of that.[/QUOTE]
If you can't forgive him and continue the discussion, please either report him or go to his user page (Hint: Click his username) and ignore him.
You aren't helping this thread either.
why does everyone NEED to have the last word. Please make this thread about the topic at hand, it deserves the attention.
[QUOTE=BassB;36867500]why does everyone NEED to have the last word. Please make this thread about the topic at hand, it deserves the attention.[/QUOTE]
I don't see what there is to discuss in the article anymore, there's been plenty of related pages and it's basically at the point where everyone packs up and leaves the thread to die.
[QUOTE=BassB;36867500]why does everyone NEED to have the last word. Please make this thread about the topic at hand, it deserves the attention.[/QUOTE]
So like I was asking before, has anyone that was up in arms about what I had to say, donated or done anything to support the victims that have survived their wounds and will most assuredly have hefty medical bills?
[QUOTE=FreakyMe;36867496]Also, you are now being hysterical. I didn't think I'd ever use that term to describe someone commenting on a forum but you have now gone pretty overboard. If you can't forgive him and continue the discussion, please either report him or go to his user file and ignore him.
You aren't helping this thread either.[/QUOTE]
I don't want him to think that just because what he posted wasn't racist means it's ok.
He's still setting a value on life based on how well off someone was.
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