trends in violence culture

what surprises me is not so much the fact that Brown is assumed to be a dangerous, fearsome target (a pot smoking shoplifting black thug who may "charge" at any moment with his upraised hands), but the unembarrassed readiness of so many to announce that they too, would succumb to that fear and find no other recourse than to shower the thug with bullets.

I thought about this trend when Renisha McBride was killed, that it was inevitable Wafer's defense would rest on convincing everyone that he was desperately afraid of a teenage girl on the other side of a locked door. And how could that be spun as anything other than profoundly shaming/emasculating to the kind of person who cares about that kind of masculinity?

Thank everything holy for that verdict but the fact that his case wasn't widely pronounced to be more shameful by his own demographic peers can only be explained by what this thread is exploring.

Well, that plus racism.

Guys, you can't fight in here, this is the violence culture thread.

*golf clap*

ha

portentousness alert

i'm cataloging photographs taken of law students doing csi/west wing cosplay for a "counter-terror simulation" in 2012. it looks like a serial drama extension of five-years-after coed life complete with token minority. if there was a meanwhile in iraq subplot it would need a lot of curly facial hair and a playground of contemporary orientalist signifiers to go with it, ultimately making sense only as an "evil" reflection of a heartland character drama. this is our preferred reality. the ones at the top are most fluent in the sign language of the most crucial and charged simulations which are only made possible by various shifting binaries that must be whacked like moles regularly, the further down the chain the better. this is where violence culture and the men and women who carry it out reside.

thanks to Matt DC for finding this thread again.

A friend posted this on FB and I immediately thought about this discussion.

https://popula.com/2019/02/24/about-face/

Thanks for that. Nate Powell bringing the fire.

beard is a flat circle

Quality revive