Hey White People...

[Irving]

What about black cops?

Tough call, but they can only quit being one thing.

You can always move countries too if they feel USA is so bad, right?

Oh absolutely! Twitter and Facebook need to be reminded of this fact as often as possible.

[KevDen2005]

"Blue lives matter isn't a thing?" Please tell me about the last time that someone wanted to murder you for your job.... I'll wait.

Have you ever been to the DMV?

[osok-308]

You can quit your job though. It's not quite the same.

True, but regardless, you're talking about a group of people who are murdered as well and an anti-police movement backing it. Regardless, it's people being targeted for who they are/what they do. Imagine the outrage if people were ambushing Hollywood actors at the same rate, they weren't born as actors.

Have you ever been to the DMV?

Touché.

I also was not directing that question at anyone on this forum, but to the idiots in the video/those who wrote their lines.

[Irving]

Oh I agree. I can't think of a profession that deserves to be ambushed at this point in time, and people should be outraged over it.

[Skip]

You can't quit your race but you can determine your reality through behavior and responsibility.

As an entitled white male, if I go "hands on" with a cop and attempt to take his weapon, I should expect to get shot in the face. Is that an attack on me because of my race? No, that's the natural consequences of being a shitbag.

The problem with identity politics is it removes individual responsibility and reduces humans to the box Liberals have created. We used to correctly label this as racism but since Dems need to win elections it's cool now.

[KevDen2005]

Oh I agree. I can't think of a profession that deserves to be ambushed at this point in time, and people should be outraged over it.

See question above

[Wulf202]

Even if a cop quits. They will always be an ex cop. If they shoot someone in a good or bad shoot it wasn't an armed citizen it was an ex-cop. It's not like they're going to say "ex plumber robs a bank" on the news. An ex cop does it and they'll be trashed in the media immediately

[Aloha_Shooter]

Heard a thing on NPR the other day about the value of education in Asian cultures and how there is a myth that Asians succeed because it's a cultural value to be well educated, etc. but it then went on to say that doesn't hold true on the Asian continent itself, that the success rate isn't there. So this is purely an Asian immigrant situation..

I don't know what "expert" said that but saying it's an "Asian immigrant situation" is horsepuckey. The things is there are differences in Asian cultures like there are between European or African cultures. Chinese, Korean, and Japanese in their own countries value education as much as immigrants in America from those countries do -- maybe more so these days. It's not the same case in the Philippines (or with Filipino immigrants) and the caste system in India overwhelms any cultural emphasis on education.

The success rate is a whole other matter. Asian immigrants have largely succeeded in America because our past culture rewarded hard work, initiative, and yes, education. I rather suspect that equation is changing these days with the cultural priorities being emphasized by the Left. The cultural emphasis on education in China, Korea, or Japan may not have resulted in as much success purely because the opportunities weren't there. Korea was still dealing with economic aftermath of the Korean War as recently as the 1980s and even into the 1990s. The PRC ... well, let's not even go there -- you can see how the culture rewarded education and hard work by what happened in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Then again, I'm just a fourth-generation American of Chinese extraction who grew up in Hawaii with other Asian-Americans watching the Pacific Rim. I'm sure I'm not as qualified to talk about Asian cultures as an East Coast NPR talking head who studied Asian Culture at Harvard or Yale or Princeton or even CUNY and who has probably written dozens of papers on the subject.

[Gman]

I'm not Asian and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night....

...but from my experience, it's not a matter of education or being Asian. It's a matter of hard work. I've also seen immigrants from the former Soviet Union nations get here and bust their butts. They work hard to get experience and work their way up the food chain. They buy a car to get to work, they buy a home, and they eventually bring their family over. The American Dream still exists for those willing to work for it.

[Dave_L]

I read in a book once that some of that stems from European/Asian/etc immigrants dont really have a choice but to assimilate. Compared to those immigrants that can just go across the border and be back at home. They never have to fully sever their homeland ties so it doesn't force them to commit to the new country.

I thought it was an interesting take on the topic.