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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (819078)11/25/2014 1:38:24 PM
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To My Muggers – I Forgive You, I Deserved It, I’m Sorry About My Privilegeby BFH

Look at this d-bag. He was mugged near Georgetown at gunpoint, forced to lay on the ground as his pants were rifled through, and he says he deserved it.

Here are some tasty d-bag morsels from his essay -

What has been most startling to me, even more so than the incident itself, have been the reactions I’ve gotten. I kept hearing “thugs,” “criminals” and “bad people.” While I understand why one might jump to that conclusion, I don’t think this is fair.

It's not fair to call a person who commits a crime a criminal?

Not once did I consider our attackers to be “bad people.” I trust that they weren’t trying to hurt me. In fact, if they knew me, I bet they’d think I was okay. They wanted my stuff, not me.

You trust that, huh? I will bet you "your stuff" you don't trust law-abiding citizens to own guns for self-protection.

When I struggled in school, I had parents who willingly sat down with me and helped me work through it. When I have a problem, I have countless people who I can turn to for solid advice.

Who was the person who read your essay and gave it the big thumbs up? That wasn't solid advice.

By the way, every person in America is entitled to access to schools which purportedly have, the unions assure us this is so, professional counselors that are there to give solid advice. We already pay these muggers for this privilege, lots. You'll see, youngster, when you begin to pay school taxes.

When I walk around at 2 a.m., nobody looks at me suspiciously, and police don’t ask me any questions. I wonder if our attackers could say the same.

And the police would be correct, wouldn't they, Sparkles?

Who am I to stand from my perch of privilege, surrounded by million-dollar homes and paying for a $60,000 education, to condemn these young men as “thugs?” It’s precisely this kind of “otherization” that fuels the problem.

So that's the problem, that million-dollar homes exist and high cost education. Well then, let's abolish these things.

I’ve never had to decide whether or not to steal from people. We’re all capable of good and bad, but it’s a whole lot easier for me to choose good than it may be for them to.

Poverty is not an excuse to hold a gun to someone's head, nor is wealth or privilege.

We have a lot, and plenty of opportunities to make even more. They have very little, and few opportunities to make ends meet.

"We"? Are you involving others in your manifesto? Are you nuts?

...we should get comfortable with sporadic muggings and break-ins. I can hardly blame them.

"We"? Are you nuts?

Get comfortable? This sounds an awful lot like telling a woman to get comfortable with their rape.

http://iotwreport.com/?p=263087
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