Jon Stewart on the Charleston SC Shootings

[dimsum]

Once again, Jon hits the nail on the head.  It'll be a sad day when he leaves the Daily Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaW47WxcwPQ

 

[Davionn]

Well said!

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Link is now dead due to copyright infringement.

 

[cupper]

Here is a link to the full episode on Comedy Central's website:

http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/rilcea/june-18--2015---malala-yousafzai

His commentary comes in right at the start of the show. I recommend watching the full episode though, as His discussion with Malala in the remaining segments is just as poignant.

This are the links for The Comedy Network for those who can't view US sites.

The opening commentary    http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?vid=639291 

The Malala Interview          http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/shows/thedailyshow?vid=637644

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Once again, Jon hits the nail on the head.  It'll be a sad day when he leaves the Daily Show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaW47WxcwPQ

It's a screwed up country that's also morally bankrupt IMO.  We aren't much better off in many respects though. 

 

[medicineman]

Well said.  I was going to say something about the suspect's bowl cut, but it's likely too soon to ridicule him...

MM

 

[midget-boyd91]

Well said.  I was going to say something about the suspect's bowl cut, but it's likely too soon to ridicule him...

MM

No it's not.
When I first saw the suspect's image I had the strange urge to listen to the Beatles too.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Strange. With that haircut and it being on Moe Howard's birthday. Curiouser and curiouser.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

It's a screwed up country that's also morally bankrupt IMO.  We aren't much better off in many respects though.

The racial divide runs very deep in their psyche, which is not the case with us.  Moreover, the scars from the Civil War are more like scabs that are continually picked at...

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

The racial divide runs very deep in their psyche, which is not the case with us.  Moreover, the scars from the Civil War are more like scabs that are continually picked at...

My thought is, it's been a 150 years, get over it already.

 

[Loachman]

150 years is less time than some ancient grudges have been kept.

 

[Brasidas]

The racial divide runs very deep in their psyche, which is not the case with us.  Moreover, the scars from the Civil War are more like scabs that are continually picked at...

It blows my mind that the stars and bars flies at the state legislature.

 

[Remius]

It blows my mind that the stars and bars flies at the state legislature.

Here area  few facts about the flag.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-didnt-know-confederate-flag/


The key one for me is this: It was never an official flag of the confederacy.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Here area  few facts about the flag.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/8-things-didnt-know-confederate-flag/


The key one for me is this: It was never an official flag of the confederacy.

But it is the official flag of antebellum mindsets, and a symbol of a racist past to 12% of the population.....

 

[medicineman]

No it's not.
When I first saw the suspect's image I had the strange urge to listen to the Beatles too.

I was thinking more along the lines of I'd be pretty angry at everyone if my overly domineering mommy cut my hair like that all the time...

MM

 

[Colin Parkinson]

30 seconds of his rambling were enough for me. Racial issues are kept alive there by certain political types and the media. Plus failures at the State level to deal with long festering problems. Loachman is quite right, some grudges last a long time, like the ME dealing with events 1400 years ago. 

 

[Staff Weenie]

Is it really a long time? How long ago did Black Americans get the right to vote? Then, how long ago was it that they weren't intimidated into not voting? How about school integration, riding the bus wherever you feel like sitting, or going to the theatre?  There are still 'whites only' golf clubs in the USA - one isn't so far from Bethesda, where a relative of mine lives. There are millions of Black Americans who can still remember being spat upon, or harassed, or chased out of restaurants.  Some had the living crap beaten out of them for looking at a white woman.  The Tuskegee Experiment went on until 1972.

We're not a hell of a lot better in Canada, we've just had a better PR approach.  The last segregated school in Canada was in Nova Scotia, and it closed in 1983! Only 32 years ago!

Racism is very much alive, and the institutions that should be working to end it, don't.  Oddly enough, the most racially integrated organization I've seen in the US, is their military, and even that's only recent, and still experiencing problems.

This isn't something from our far distant past, it's still part of a painful living memory.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Mind you the same applied to women, Asians and Hispanic's. You note that those groups are moving on and climbing the economic ladder. The Blacks seem to attempting to climb further down and cutting off anyone at the knees that tries to get ahead.

I should add a project here just discovered that the existing long held lease they were acquiring stipulated that no Asians or East Indians be allowed employment there.

 

[Old Sweat]

Slight sidetrack: The Governor of South Carolina just announced the legislature will be asked to vote to remove Confederate battle flag from the State House grounds.

 

[The Bread Guy]

The whole "legacy" issue is more than just the flag - it's further complicated by how many U.S. military bases (maybe not many, but certainly not the tiniest ones) are named for Confederate officers:

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Regarding the shooting, here's the shooter's "manifesto" in case you're interested (or attached, if the link doesn't work).  Be warned:  it's partly the Jews' fault, according to this  :facepalm:

So, if one place of worship being shot up by a white supremacist in 2012 is considered terrorism, how about this one?  Or is it a hate crime?  :worms: