Non-Western Take on George Floyd Protests

[Vince Koloski]

Folks,

Here is an early June article from a Thai news website with a report on the George Floyd protest uprising. It's hard to determine whether it is straight news, dark humor, slightly satirical or some other point of view. 

In reading it I imagine my response is similar to that of various people around the world upon reading western MSM coverage of events in their countries.

https://www.thaienquirer.com/13861/foreign-affairs-unrest-continues-for-a-seventh-day-in-former-british-colony/

Short read, perspective skewing,

Vince

[Scott Hotes]

Ha, yes, I see what they did there... :)

If you want yet another interesting perspective, listen to this latest podcast from Sam Harris:

https://samharris.org/podcasts/207-can-pull-back-brink/

TL;DR:  best statistics we have indicate that there in fact IS NOT a racial bias WRT law enforcement, or in particular,

a racial bias WRT the use of unnecessary force from law enforcement.

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[jack saunders]

It would have passed muster in my journalism classes, with praise for its astute historical backgrounding.

On Jun 22, 2020, at 11:41 AM, Vince Koloski <vkst...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Scott Hotes]

No doubt as an opinion piece, or perhaps with an axe to grind.  For example:

"US President Donald Trump, who was ‘elected’ in 2016 despite the majority of votes going to his rival candidate, vowed in a speech to bring in the military to end the protests."

Well, it's true that he did not get a majority vote, but of course that's not how the system is set up.  There are sound historical reasons for our electoral process, at least in this sense his presidency is not illegitimate...

"Religion also plays a major role in governance with religious beliefs separating key state organs including the country’s highest court where many social laws are passed based on the justices personally held religious convictions."

Source?  Let's not go overboard here.  Our founding principles represented an unprecedented step away from theocracy.

Scott

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[jack saunders]

Yes, the quote marks around elected are egregious, and SCOTUS "pass" laws, social or otherwise.  Those would have been red circled.

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