I actually agree with all of this except for where you say they didn't tap into something. They tapped into the very thing you mention about the Left overreaching their extreme ideologies on being overly PC about everything, making everyone apologize publicly for "insensitive" remarks, policing "thought" whether offensive or not, putting feminists and minorities in charge of "what is moral". Yeah, a large group(bubbling under the surface) felt that this was a wrong way to communicate and silently wanted to rebel. But you can't deny that Trump didn't "tap" into that. One of the first Republican debates, and I am paraphrasing, when he defends himself against Megyn Kelly, he says I'm not going to be PC and the people are sick of this PC bull**** anyway. He was real and tapped into that audience that realizes all this PC bull**** was mind control. It's not racism or bigotry which the Left describes. It's just human. The fact is that different races and cultures are different and we can acknowledge that, is a beautiful thing. We should be able to admire it, make fun of it, be annoyed by it, learn from it... it's a part of what makes life unique and interesting.

But most of all, all this was a distraction to the real issues for the last decade. Mainly the economy and the middle class job opportunities has been a joke. And Trump tapped into that because it was a real experience for the middle class...while Hillary was relying on her media, Hollywood, $$$ machine with no platform to help the middle class.

lol, yeah, about that...

Oh come on. You're singling out one specific news report. And it has nothing to do with politics, it's just a criminal committing a criminal act. These crazy hate crimes have been going on forever. And it's a very small segment now, it just gets reported in plain sight more often because the media has this agenda. If you think hate crimes or that there is this general army of racist people made from our political climate more nowadays as opposed to 10, 20, 30, 40+ years ago, you are brainwashed. The incidents that happen are spotlighted to distract us from the real issues.

This leftist idea that we are going to be able to live in a society that has no hatred is very misleading. There are always bad people, just like there will always be murderers, robberers and crime syndicates. But to label millions and millions of people as bigots is an utter joke.

No, no, no, no, no. There's a reason I put the Ferguson DoJ report last in that post. That wasn't a hate crime, that wasn't plain and obvious bigotry by an outlying or abnormal segment of society wearing white hoods. That was average-ass police officers, who go home to their families at the end of their shift every day, going out and doing their jobs and in the process treating poor black people in their city like ATMs and routinely violating their civil rights.

This strawman you're constructing where conservatives just want to make slightly uncouth jokes about our differences and liberals say "no, stop, you're not allowed to see color", and that's the problem you're saying is happening here - who do you think you're fooling with that ****?

This is obviously a job only white men can do.

There is a police department that tries to increase revenues by giving out more tickets and fines. This is ground breaking news!

There were 14 instances of resisting arrest during X time frame and all 14 were black people. Yeah, that mean cops are racist!

One time a cop harassed a grown man at a park and accused him of being a pedophile. Guess what race he was? Yeah you guessed it. That cop is racist.

A woman was late paying a parking ticket and now she ended up paying way more because she was an African American. Please note the extra payment had nothing to with her not paying on time.

That Washington post is doing some amazing journalism.

No

Wow

Racist denies racism. News at 11.

Little "lords" of "morality" don't like them women and minorities questioning their "lordliness". What if that were brand new?

lol bahbah

Rioting in Sweden today in a neighborhood primarily composed of refugees.

I'm not denying racism in the US or Ferguson. I am just saying that particular article came up with some pretty terrible examples.

I think there is evidence racism exists in our system where one race is so much more likely to be arrested than others. I just disagree at the distribution of blame. It seems like cops catch 99% of blame where there are so many other factors that need to be considered. For example: at least part of the reason AA are more likely to be arrested than other races is because of the neighborhoods AA are more likely to live in. Cops to tend spend more time in low income neighborhoods so if there is a higher % of AA in those neighborhoods (than the national avg.) I assume that is part of the reason for the more arrests.

This is just like the argument I had a year ago on 2+2 where I said the hiring process for fortune 500 CEOs catches way to much blame on the problem of too few minority and female CEOs of fortune 500. I was literally called racist by multiple people for saying there are other events/factors that happened before the hiring process that deserve some blame.

Please leave the personally attacks out of this and try to attack my argument.

Your argument is facile garbage and basically boils down to looking at the DoJ report and saying "nuh uh".

Yeah, no, your **** doesn't deserve the time of day.

"Lords" of the immigrants, and of the savings accounts for the sick, and still, of The Native Americans.

History is recorded and stored better than ever yo!

I am agreeing there is an "unlawful bias". I am just of the opinion that the police doesn't deserve near as much of the blame as they are given. There are plenty of other unlawful events that take place prior to cops approaching civilians that could make it appear that they are racist.

Again, I am not denying that some cops are racist. I am saying the police force in general isn't as racist as we are lead to believe - AINEC.

if anything the police are being found to be far more racist than we imagined

Fifty people. Police got on top of it. Everybody went home. Rather less disruption than at Berkeley where the police chose not to do very much about anything.

Republicans already forgot all the bigotry denial that was lost during the great opening up and telling it like it is of 2016. But we remember how and why all that denial collapsed. No wonder that spice-guy can be satired by an angry prejudiced dog puppet.

'St'hate's rrrrrrrrights tho'

I've never seen an article that shows this. All the articles I've read that try to make this claim were written for and by people who don't understand statistics. Do you have an article or paper under 25 pages (ie- I don't have a lot of free time tonight, but if it is short I can manage it) that supports your claim? Or is this one of those cases where someone thinks there is more of something just because they hear more about it.

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/doc...partment/1435/

Damn, this one is 100 pages, too bad there aren't any people or websites out there that can summarize it for you...

The FBI Has Quietly Investigated White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

I don't disagree with the article that there are white supremacists in law enforcement. However, the article fails to mention that there are white supremacists in every industry imaginable.

Hold the phone... Skinhead groups, or any crime group, are trying to convince some members to join a police force and hide the fact that they are part of a crime group so they can find out about investigations. That is so crafty - I don't know why crime groups haven't been doing that for the past 100 years.

I guess I have to reiterate my point again: Yes, there are racist cops... but you are a crazy person if you think the entirety of the US police force is more racist in 2017 than any other time in the history of this country.

BTW- If you regularly visit that site I feel bad for you.

Are you saying this is the least racist time ever, or simply that it's not the most racist?

I thought the republicans had 'committed' to racism's absurd disappearance some time between the 80's and Obama, without completely accounting for it actually vanishing.