"Egalitarian" Redditor explains why protesting Michael Brown's shooting would be a "gross misuse of the MRM's relatively meager resources."

Yeah, if he was white and homeless, no one would have cared.

Shall we get back to playing MRMorWhiteRights?

p.s. This eagleitarian’s comment is even worse:

So far, the majority of the discussion has been how this was clearly related to how the kid was black. I disagree heavily. I don’t think the event occurred because he was black, that was just a statistical probability on the grounds that he was a in a predominately black neighborhood.

Where it’s totally a coincidence that most police violence against unarmed civilians occurs, folks!

I think the larger reason that this event occurred is poverty. What do we know, aside from the fact that we don’t actually know the motivations of either party, and aside from that it was a white cop that shot a black kid? We know the neighborhood is predominately black, that it is a poor neighborhood, and that it likely houses a large criminal element.

Poor POC = mostly criminals.

In the US, the overwhelming majority of the prison population is black, young, and in jail for drug charges. Why? I would speculate that it is because drugs and criminal activity are more lucrative and beneficial activities than studying and working hard to leave the environment that way. Why work an honest job when you can make a month’s wage in a day on the street selling illicit substances? So is it racist that most of our prison population is black? No. Its an issue that those resorting to selling drugs are commonly black. Maybe its racist that more black people get caught than white people, and that might actually be an issue of race, but I find it hard to believe that an overwhelming majority of officers make a distinction about who they decide to arrest for the exact same crime. It could be, but I doubt it.

Fact: young white men are statistically more likely to use drugs, and to engage in illegal drug-related activity, but somehow young men of color are more likely to be stopped & frisked, arrested, jailed, and receive longer sentences for the same crimes. Funny how that works. But seriously, the fact that all my assumptions about young men of color are both negative and incorrect, that’s not racism.

We have an environment that has underfunded schools and role models that are ‘making it big’ doing activities that are highly illegal. Compound that with the general disdain for authority figures, particularly cops, and particularly with historic incidents of police brutality upon black people, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. Oh, and then tack on that the officer was white, in a black neighborhood, as a cop – yea, that’s going to go over real well.
Lets ask ourselves a hypothetical: If the cop was black instead of white, would we care? If the cop was white and the kid was white, would we care? If the cop was black, and the kid white, would we care? If we still cared in all those situations, would we care as much, and would the media attention be as large as it is? Would we have the same sort of neighborhood reaction that we get in a situation like the one that occurred? Would we get riots? I’d suggest that we wouldn’t. In fact, I’d suggest that most of us wouldn’t care, or at least very much, and certainly not make it an issue of race.

It’s actually reverse racism. Nothing to see here, folks.

But lets really get down to the more realistic issue at hand: what did the kid do that caused the officer to draw his weapon and fire? Police officers may be known for excessive force but this, to my knowledge, rarely involves guns, let alone lethal force. I have a hard time believing that the kid was completely innocent. Truth be told, however, none of us really know all the details.

It’s a tragedy, but that black kid probably had it coming.

I have a really hard time believing the the race of the officer or the kid are as big of a factor as the media is letting on. I think its being hyped very heavily and the media is turning it into a sad South Park satire. Ultimately, the issue isn’t race, its poverty, shitty neighborhoods, and criminals. A kid just got unlucky and provoked an officer that caused the officer to respond with lethal force – the kid also just happened to be black, in a black neighborhood.

Right. It’s just like South Park.

I’m so mad as I’m typing that it’s going to be a minor miracle if the blockquote monster doesn’t piss all over this.

Yes, no one would have cared. Surely none of the 100s of news outlets that would have been screaming about the injustice of a white man being killed by the cops and millions of people liking a page calling to have the cop fired on facebook. Let’s be real here, dude, if Michael Brown had been white, this would be getting a helluva a lot more coverage than it is and it would have never gotten to this point lol.

Ferguson is about average for crime (I found out when looking for things related to my blog post). This was the first homicide in Ferguson this year.

I’d say that redditor was full of shit, but I don’t think it’s really true… I can’t imagine there’s anything left given how much he pulled out of his ass to write that.

Ferguson is about average for crime (I found out when looking for things related to my blog post). This was the first homicide in Ferguson this year.

In an effort to prove that this wasn’t about racism, but about “shitty” neighborhoods he made the very racist assumption that a town with a large black population must be crime ridden and dangerous. Fail.

Every political site with feminist sensibilities on my reading list is covering Michael Brown and the Ferguson police state. The MRAs are dithering. Gee. What a surprise. 😐

White cowards. They can’t do shit for black POC.

Translation: “Sure black men and boys are being gunned down in the streets and you’d think that was a pretty big infringement on those men and boys’ rights, but SLUTS! CHILD SUPPORT! and SLUTS! Plus, they aren’t white, straight, cis dudes, so we really don’t care.”

When I read “That may be the leading cause of death in black men but…” I finished it to myself, “I’m not a black man”.

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Meanwhile, they are saying that the hated feminists at Jezebel care about these men who are being murdered in the streets, so it must unimportant.

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that was just a statistical probability on the grounds that he was a in a predominately black neighborhood.

What are the odds of a black teen living in a predominately black neighborhood? What are the odds of a poor neighbor hood being where lots of black people live? What could the links between race, poverty and police brutality be? If only there was a word for that strange phenomenon. /s

They’re so busy cultivating imagined injustice that they can’t possibly take time out to deal with real injustice.

The more they talk about how this isn’t a men’s rights issue, the more they reveal the MRM is just a white, middle-class, and middle-age movement.

They constantly whine about how feminists don’t do anything to help their “causes” yet when a genuine issue that’s an intersection of race, gender, and socioeconomic status rears its head, they can’t even even offer solidarity with men. Can’t even muster an unqualified statement of support. Instead, they reproduce the discourse of white pride and victim-blaming. Feminists, LGBT groups, and basically just decent people everywhere are revealing and condemning what happened in Ferguson while they hem and haw. Nice egalitarian movement there fellas.

Seriously, fuck these fools.

Fuck these guys. They are so far up their own asses they’re ready to disappear.

n the US, the overwhelming majority of the prison population is black, young, and in jail for drug charges. Why? I would speculate that it is because drugs and criminal activity are more lucrative and beneficial activities than studying and working hard to leave the environment that way.

Stop speculating, you turd.

They’re racist, they’re wrong about everything, and their reasons for being wrong are just made up of MORE RACISM. It’s a shit sandwich.