Instagram Users Flood the App With Millions of Blackout Tuesday Posts (cnbc.com) 87
Instagram users are flooding the platform with black squares in support of black victims of police violence as part of a Blackout Tuesday protest. CNBC reports: As of 11:45 a.m. ET, more than 14.6 million Instagram posts used the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday. Searches for "blackout tuesday image" and "blackout image" surged 400% Tuesday morning, according to Google Trends. The idea of an online movement was announced last week, when music executives Jamila Thomas and Brianna Agyemang called on members of the music industry to pause business on Tuesday and take a stand against racism.
"We will not continue to conduct business as usual without regard for Black lives," the founders wrote. Platforms, such as Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube Music, joined the movement and are using their apps to promote black artists. Additionally, media company ViacomCBS, which owns MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, Pop, VH1, TV Land, among others, also joined this call to action. On Monday, the company's networks all went off the air for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time that an officer in Minneapolis pressed his knee on Floyd's neck. The movement has since spread to brands, organizations and individuals, who are using Instagram to post only a black square Tuesday to show a virtual moment of silence. Others are choosing to continue posting, but will only amplify voices of the black community.
"We will not continue to conduct business as usual without regard for Black lives," the founders wrote. Platforms, such as Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube Music, joined the movement and are using their apps to promote black artists. Additionally, media company ViacomCBS, which owns MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, Pop, VH1, TV Land, among others, also joined this call to action. On Monday, the company's networks all went off the air for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the length of time that an officer in Minneapolis pressed his knee on Floyd's neck. The movement has since spread to brands, organizations and individuals, who are using Instagram to post only a black square Tuesday to show a virtual moment of silence. Others are choosing to continue posting, but will only amplify voices of the black community.
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I'd say it was useless virtue signalling, but it does accomplish something.
It's just a shame these provocateurs don't have storefronts to be looted and set on fire.
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Re:Meanwhile (Score:4, Insightful)
This does not negate the fact that police brutality claims too many black lives.
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Re:Meanwhile (Score:4, Insightful)
Per capita, blacks are responsible for more crimes than any other race.
Per capita, blacks are arrested more and convicted more than any other race. Not (necessarily) the same thing.
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Per capita, blacks are arrested more and convicted more than any other race. Not (necessarily) the same thing.
No, but Fox News keeps telling me I should be scared of black people and it's their fault they're poor, and they should just pull themselves up by the boot straps.
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Yeah, we're going to need a citation to that. Where, exactly, did they say any of that. Provide links.
They didn't of course, and you just made it up. That's a huge problem today, the left has successfully Otherized the right and does not feel the need to listen to them at all. [archive.is] They actively censor, and in the big knowledge gap that results, they just invent whatever lies would make the right look like nazis and go with that.
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His post was satire, mate. Was the "Pull themselves up by the boot straps" not obvious?
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"That's a huge problem today, the left has successfully Otherized the right and does not feel the need to listen to them at all. They actively censor, and in the big knowledge gap that results, they just invent whatever lies would make the right look like nazis and go with that."
Yep, I agree! Just look at the mainstream media coverage between the lockdown protestors and that of the rioters. The lockdown people were "putting the public at risk", but the rioters are "impasioned" and "patriotic".
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Per capita, blacks are arrested more and convicted more than any other race. Not (necessarily) the same thing.
Big tech needs to censor all of the video of the stores being looted, because it promotes harmful stereotypes.
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Are you saying that cops kill blacks because they're blacks? Or are you willing to look into the nuances associated with the phenomenon?
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One self selects to be a cop. One doesn't choose their own race. Authoritarians come from all cultures and races. I hope this helps you understand the difference between being weary of a cop because he's a cop, versus being weary of a person he has dark skin.
That's a hand-wavy excuse for you to be a bigot, basically saying "I can hate Jews because they chose to be Jews". It only seems valid to those who already agree with you. But more importantly, it doesn't answer my question at all; it was just your attempt at an emergency evasive manouver.
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Or are you willing to look into the nuances associated with the phenomenon?
He/she's not willing to look into the nuances. Has never been, otherwise, he/she wouldn't be posting such inane things. For some, life is simpler when we simply assume black == bad.
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Now take the number of people killed by LEO, and divide by million arrests (by race), to get kills per million arrests. i.e. How likely LEO is to kill someone of a certain race while arresting them:
Some important considerations before making conclusions:
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If you have 999 good cops and 1 bad cop they don't ruin the career of, you have 1000 bad cops
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Only one of your examples is of an objective group that you can pull a list of names of with an hour's notice.
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The fundamental problem is that police brutality takes too many lives in general
How many lives does it take, and what number would be acceptable?
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Don't do something that draws police attention, and the problem solves itself.
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"Do not walk through a public place citizen, do not invoke your right to bear arms citizen, do not be black in public citizen, do not wear the colors of a gang within a five-state radius citizen, do not match the description of any suspect within the five-state radius citizen, do not make any sudden movements (according to the police) in our presence citizen, do not reach for your wallet when asked for ID citizen, obey us when we tell you put your hands on your head and put your hands on the wall and lie on
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No it doesn't.
It does however make people who don't want to actually do anything feel like they've contributed to the cause. It's essentially the Internet's version of thoughts and prayers, same as the nonsense of overlaying a flag of the latest terror victim country on your profile picture.
(I do include people who'd like to do something, but from a distance don't see a way of doing it and can't figure out which charities to trust, etc. into the "don't want" category, because they want, but not very strongl
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Hey, that doesnâ(TM)t fit any narrative!
You need to get yourself to a re-education camp pronto. No more food credits until you have the right group think.
Win for hypocrisy (Score:1)
Nice. I absolutely love the idea of having content, such as music and videos, promoted to me soley based on someone's skin color.
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Virtue Signalling at its finest (Score:5, Interesting)
Instead of posting black images that acted like a giant DDOS on social media sites, I donated money to minority businesses destroyed in the looting.
Take preference in doing over posturing. That is how things will get better.
Re:Virtue Signalling at its finest (Score:5, Interesting)
Good on you, Superkendall. I've donated to bail funds for the protesters every night of the demonstrations and will do so again tonight. Doing is definitely better than posturing.
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Really do not understand bail fund donations (Score:5, Insightful)
I've donated to bail funds for the protesters every night of the demonstrations
I don't feel comfortable bailing out a lot of the people who probably burnt down or otherwise destroyed the businesses I am trying to help....
It seems to me like donating money elsewhere is a better idea, as bail funds would mostly help the worst of the looters.
Anyone who was only out marching would not be in jail long anyway.
Heck probably most of the looters are let go quickly also, where would they even keep so many people?
Either way you go really look into where your money is going, I'm sure there are a LOT of sham organizations collecting money right now.
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Heck probably most of the looters are let go quickly also, where would they even keep so many people?
You are exactly correct, at least as far as NYC is concerned:
Most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD over the past several days are immediately released as a direct result of New York’s new bail-reform law, New York City police chief Terrence Monahan told the New York Post on Tuesday.
While the city police made over 650 arrests on Monday night alone, Monahan said that “just about all of them” will be released without bail.
Apparently they aren't even sure the ones who were arrested while in possession of guns (which are all illegal in NYC) will have to post bail either.
https://www.nationalreview.com... [nationalreview.com]
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You hate black people that much at a point of helping those de-legitimizing the protests, so nothing gets done?
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Re:Virtue Signalling at its finest (Score:5, Informative)
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Those arrested while protesting peacefully don't need it. They're probably not even being charged, and if they are it would be with low level shit which doesn't require them to post bail.
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Good on you, Superkendall. I've donated to bail funds for the protesters every night of the demonstrations and will do so again tonight. Doing is definitely better than posturing.
This is brilliant! Someone donated to rebuild burned-down businesses, someone else donates to burn them down again. Both of you should have just kept your money and the net result would have been the same.
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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill
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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” - John Stuart Mill
That's why silencing dissent is so evil.
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Nobody's silencing your dissent. Stop whining.
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Nobody's silencing your dissent. Stop whining.
Hah! Sometimes even stupid people like you make a joke. Of course, I realise that you may not be smart enough to spot the witticism you accidentally make.
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You sure do make a lot of noise for someone who's been "silenced".
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If you go around bragging about something, it's still virtue signaling.
Yeah I agree, but I figured trying to redirect more funds into businesses rather than bail funds, was worth the risk of appearing to be just as preening as the black screen people.
So I'm not exactly trying to sound humble here, more that I am pointing out to others there are things you can do with a real impact (and as a bonus you can still virtue signal with them).
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Thanks for doing that, but remember that no everyone can afford it and for them participating in the blackout is a cheap alternative.
Slacktivism. (Score:5, Insightful)
"Oh look at me, I'm an instagram cunt who posted a one-click MS Paint masterpiece to raise awareness of WHAT IS ALL OVER THE FRONT PAGE OF ALMOST EVERY NEWS OUTLET ON THE FUCKING PLANET"
They wouldn't pass a quarter to a black man who was 15 cents short on his groceries.
Seems like a mistake (Score:4, Funny)
Finally! (Score:2, Funny)
Finally some real action on the issue of inequality and racism. And I didn't even have to leave my couch.
The real issue (Score:5, Insightful)
89% of black people murdered in 2018 were killed by another black person (FBI, 2018, 1 on 1 murders). If you stopped 100% police killing of blacks (and obviously the majority of those are justifiable use of force) it is still a blip in the data compared to the thousands killed by one another. Apparently Black Lives Matter doesn't include any black person killed by another black person. At least it doesn't fit into the mainstream media or Democrat narrative.
A side effect of that massive amount of violence, murder and crime among the black population is the necessary police interventions constantly occurring to try and keep that from going even more out of control. If the underlying behavior would stop, the police interventions would go down, police would stop feeling like they are losing a never-ending battle, etc, and the numbers of police killings would drop proportionately. No, police aren't the problem. Try and explain to me how police are causing black people to murder one another. Let me guess - they put chemicals in the water.
What happened to George Floyd was wrong on many levels, and in my opinion (as well as most sane people) was murder. He was arrested and justice will be served, so no amount of rioting is going to result in any more justice for George than he is already receiving. The rioting isn't about that at all.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-t... [fbi.gov]
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But is it really rampant? In a typical year, there are about a thousand fatal police shootings in the U.S. There are 800,000 cops in the U.S., all of whom carry guns. So 0.125% of police officers are involved in fatal shootings in a given year. Total. Various studies have estimated that 90 to 95% are justified (i.e. shooting someone who is actively attacking the officer).
So somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 to 100 officers out of 800,000 shot someone who they should not have shot. That's between one-in-8,000 and one-in-16,000 police officers. That makes it comparable to the murder rate among non-police (one in 20,000). Given that nearly all police officers carry guns around all day, versus only a single-digit percentage of the general public, and given that officers are much more likely to be in a situation where they would have to use that weapon, far from rampant, IMO, the frequency of police-committed gun crimes is actually *amazingly* low. You'd expect another zero on that number if all else were equal.
The problem is not that it is rampant, but rather that it exists at all. Even a single incident of a police officer killing someone without justification is a serious breach of the public trust, and should be punished severely, because we should hold those who enforce the law to a higher standard than anyone else. And unfortunately, that prosecution rarely occurs.
Also, the number of mistakes is also way too high, mostly because of inadequate training in how to deescalate dangerous situations.
Our police still have a long way to go, but exaggerating the extent of the problem doesn't help make your point. It would still be a serious problem even if that number were only one avoidable shooting per year.
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But police crimes should not be a thing, other than a tiny rare occurrence, instead it is rampant, and make the police's job harder, because it creates hate and defiance of the police.
But is it really rampant?...The problem is not that it is rampant...
You missed some critical wording in the original post. OP didn't say police shooting was rampant, he or she said police crimes were rampant.
That definitely true, because the USA has huge numbers of illegal laws - and despite the lesson of Nuremberg, the police are often involved in enforcing these illegal laws.
For example, there are massive problems with legal ethics in the legal system. As the right to ethical practice of law can be asserted under the 9th and 10th Amendments, with even the appearance of
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Civil forfeiture.
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The problem is not that it is rampant, but rather that it exists at all.
That's a bit of the problem. The real problem is that it is not uniformly rampant. The per capita incidence of shooting deaths at the hands of police is not the same for white people and black people. And deaths are just the tip of the iceberg. There are too many cases where prejudice against black people results in interaction with the police that would have not happened if black skin had been white.
The repetition that George Floyd is an isolated incident fuels the delusion that anti-black racism doesn
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Likely true, but the number of unnecessary interactions is much, much harder to quantify because of the number of other variables.
For example, merely being in a high crime neighborhood means your odds of interacting with the police are much higher than if you weren't. Poor areas tend to have higher crime rates than average. Minorities tend to be more likely to be poor than average. Chain those together, and you see the problem. There's no easy way to determine how many of those increased interactions a
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But is it really rampant? In a typical year, there are about a thousand fatal police shootings in the U.S.
Yes. The answer is yes. Here's a list you can sort by per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The USA isn't the highest country, but it definitely is the highest *western* country. 7 Spots higher than Luxembourg (who is always a statistical oddity due to their small population), and 8 points higher than Canada which has 1/3rd of the fatal shooting rate.
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Relative to the number of citizens with guns, we have 10% fewer police shootings than Canada. Relative to the number of overall handgun deaths, we have 47% fewer police shootings than Canada.
Comparing the fatal police shooting rate in countries whose populations have dramatically different rates of handgun ownership and deaths overall, as you did, is an uninteresting comparison.
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But police crimes should not be a thing, other than a tiny rare occurrence, instead it is rampant
Citation needed. No, "I saw 20 videos on YouTube of stuff that happened between 1990 and now" does not count.
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Black Lives Matter isn't about trying to change the culture where most black children have no father to raise them, [washingtonexaminer.com] and instill in them a sense of appreciation for education and being a responsible law-abiding adult that will help them succeed.
Instead, if you can get people to think they are systematically oppressed, then you can fool them into thinking you care and that you're there to help them. Likewise, if you can convince people that they bear the stain of some unforgiveable sin, then you can fool them
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If you stopped 100% police killing of blacks
Man you guys are so focused on the racism that you are ignoring police killed a restrained and unarmed person.
That's it. Full stop. The country has reached a breaking point based on this fact, but too many people are focused on the skin colour. In the USA people of all colour are actively taught to fear police, to not talk to them without a lawyer, to assume they will get killed at any moment if they look at them funny. That's not how a civilised western culture functions, that's how authoritarian regimes i
Tiffany Trump wants out of dad's will? (Score:1)
Was her account hacked, or did she post this [instagram.com] herself?
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I know many nerds (and geeks) who use it. :/
Joke (Score:5, Insightful)
Allowed me to remove the idiots on the platform (Score:3)
I just clicked unfollow and block on everyone that did it. Was great. I have people that virtue signal. it's like the Kony2012 shit that went around that did nothing also.
Internet people are sheep and it saddens me. So much good could come out of things and yet people are too damn lazy to actually go outside and do something to make the world a better place.
Ho hum, ho hum (Score:1)