Jon Stewart skewers the media over Selma coverage

[Underseer]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/...conservative-victimization-angle-was-amazing/

Damn, I'm going to miss him.

CNN covered their own [bad word] drone cameras instead of the commemoration or the thing being commemorated, while FOX News managed to turn the story into a story about how white people are being victimized. That's right, the commemoration of Bloody Sunday at Selma is proof that white people are being persecuted.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

What do you make of the stat that police dogs more often bit black people? Even the dogs are racist?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

What do you make of the stat that police dogs more often bit black people? Even the dogs are racist?

#notallpolicedogs

 

[dismal]

I'm pretty sure I have seen racist dog videos on the internet.

Confirmed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/06/racist-dogs-video_n_2421153.html

 

[Togo]

What do you make of the stat that police dogs more often bit black people? Even the dogs are racist?

Dogs rely on their handlers judgement as to who to bite or threaten, and even who to be nervous or cautious of. They wouldn't be much use if they didn't...

 

[Togo]

double post

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I'm pretty sure I have seen racist dog videos on the internet.

Confirmed:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/06/racist-dogs-video_n_2421153.html

They do exist. My mother had a racist Seeing Eye dog. (While it really didn't like black people it wouldn't do anything wrong while in harness so it wasn't something that would rule the dog out at least back then. I suspect the standards are higher now.)

 

[ronburgundy]

What do you make of the stat that police dogs more often bit black people? Even the dogs are racist?

Dogs rely on their handlers judgement as to who to bite or threaten, and even who to be nervous or cautious of. They wouldn't be much use if they didn't...

Dogs are animals controlled only in limited ways by handlers. They learn mostly by experienced associations and like most animals, fear the unfamiliar, no matter whether their handler shares the fear or not.

Dogs default mode toward people is fear, and they must unlearn this default by experience. Like all mammals (and most other animals), dogs form associations and any learned association transfers to other objects depending upon the degree of perceptual similarity to the objects already learned.
Newsflash, white people have more perceptual similarities to white handlers than do black people. Therefore, dogs (police or otherwise) that are trained and handled mostly by white people will unlearn their default fear response more strongly to white people than to black people. I have seen the same thing with fear toward men with beards.
IOW, if most of the trainers and handlers of police dogs in Ferguson were black, the stat would be flipped.

Also, dogs react to reactions of the suspects. The assumptions that the dogs should have identical bite rates of blacks and whites, presumes that black and white suspects have identical reactions when confronted by the cops and their dogs. That is a massive and implausible assumption.

 

[Keith&Co.]

That's right, the commemoration of Bloody Sunday at Selma is proof that white people are being persecuted.

That's such a contrived issue...
You'd have to expect that a photo of the sitting president would be more newsworthy than of a former president.
Of course, if a candidate hopeful to be the NEXT president had been there, he'd have been more newsworthy than a lame-duck president. If the picture had been of Rand Paul marching, with Obama out of the pic, then it wouldn't be the photographer's bias but basic news instincts.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

What do you make of the stat that police dogs more often bit black people? Even the dogs are racist?

Dogs rely on their handlers judgement as to who to bite or threaten, and even who to be nervous or cautious of. They wouldn't be much use if they didn't...

I had a racist dog who did not like Black men. Never figured out why.

 

[Underseer]

What do you make of the stat that police dogs more often bit black people? Even the dogs are racist?

Dogs rely on their handlers judgement as to who to bite or threaten, and even who to be nervous or cautious of. They wouldn't be much use if they didn't...

Don't be absurd. The dogs make those decisions entirely on their own, therefore it is proven that this whole "racism" thing is something we liberals just dreamed up one day to persecute white people for the crime of being born white. That's why we need Patriotic Real Americans^TM to defend white people from all of this brutal repression.