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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Another Brit here, yes cops do get punished in high profile cases with video evidence such as this.

    The contradictory examples listed above were quite complex cases from what I remember.

    That said, as a teenager a friend of mine was beaten up in a police van in a case of mistaken identity. He was advised by his lawyer to drop the case as there was little chance of proving what happened as the police had smashed up his phone which he had been recording them with.

    Due to the context of police officers being injured prior to what’s shown on tape. I expect in this instance, the cop to get a lenient pushiment.




  • Feel you. I got accused by my brother in law of being some kind of psychopath for not wanting Santa in the house.

    In their house, my sister is already using the threat of Christmas big brother against any minor hijinks that their kid gets up to.

    I have a three year old, so unfortunately, I have another 4 years of this nonsense ahead of me.







  • Does a definitive answer of “at least it wasn’t racist” make this appreciably any better? Does it make them any more likely to get a teaching job after this?<

    On the first question: yes, making a bad joke is better than being a racist. On the second: also probably… yes, tbh. Not saying it wouldn’t harm her career but less that everyone thinking you’re racist.

    It also doesn’t change the core argument the teacher is making in the story. “You lumped me in with a bunch of racists because I was white. I took down the image because it was offensive. Obviously. Why would I leave it up if it was offensive?”<

    Completely agree. Claiming reverse racism is almost always shitty thing to do. I’ll happily concede that it’s even less likely the school is racist.


  • Showing it as a back to school necklace is most likely racist, but even if it wasn’t intended to be racist then it is a joke about teen suicide. Both are fucking terrible.

    I completely agree that both are terrible. However one probably doesn’t get you ostracised from society forever but the other does. Being labelled as a racist in your community can ruin your life in a way that having some very questionable dark humor wouldn’t.

    I have no idea if the woman is a racist or not, but IF she isn’t, her punishment from the school and the community seems quite harsh.

    BTW I’m not from the US, but nooses still make me immediately think of Jim Crow or the KKK (and spaghetti westerns, but thats besides the point).