Racist incident in downtown Bethesda yesterday?

[Anonymous]

As a white person, I am grieving how prolific the white hatred of people of color is right now, but more than that I’m grieving how comfortable white Americans have all made it, the unimpeded path we’ve provided it, the way we’ve cooperated with it.

We haven’t needed to actively participate in a shooting or call in an erroneous harassment report or drive our knees into a stranger’s neck to be culpable for it all: our silence has been as deadly and that’s the story here. Racism doesn’t get this prolific and profitable and emboldened without our our inaction, without our abstinence, without our averted glances and uneasy truces and sidestepped difficult conversations.

We can’t pretend to understand the injustices people of color go through, but what we can do is stand up and refuse to remain silent.

Without decades of largely unabated and unchecked violence, a white police officer doesn’t press the life out of George Floyd in the middle of the day knowing he is being recorded.

Without a leader who offers “both sides” false equivalencies after a car plows through peaceful Charlottesville marchers, we don’t have armed crowds assembling at state capitols to intimidate politicians in a pandemic that is dis proportionally decimating communities of color.

White Americans need to reckon with the reality:

America is still set up for the Amy Coopers and not the Christian Coopers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet the kid walked to close to him and neither were wearing masks and it caused this guy to loose it. [/quote

So, based on exactly zero information, you've made up a scenario that blames the son and the mom for "caus(ing)" the vulgar screamer's inappropriate and racist behavior. It's amazing how far people will go to excuse bad behavior in those that they identify with.

No. And what about my comment suggests excusing his behavior? I was just brainstorming what might have set him off. The woman was defending her son so I was thinking what could have happened that would cause this reaction. Calm down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians been getting it these days.

+1

I’m Asian, and I don’t wear a mask when outside bc I don’t want to be targeted. I do wear a mask when indoors at a store.

Targeted for what?

I know quite a few Asians and have not heard anyone talking about being targeted.

Are you serious? Clearly while you may call them your friends, you are not an ally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a white person, I am grieving how prolific the white hatred of people of color is right now, but more than that I’m grieving how comfortable white Americans have all made it, the unimpeded path we’ve provided it, the way we’ve cooperated with it.

We haven’t needed to actively participate in a shooting or call in an erroneous harassment report or drive our knees into a stranger’s neck to be culpable for it all: our silence has been as deadly and that’s the story here. Racism doesn’t get this prolific and profitable and emboldened without our our inaction, without our abstinence, without our averted glances and uneasy truces and sidestepped difficult conversations.

We can’t pretend to understand the injustices people of color go through, but what we can do is stand up and refuse to remain silent.

Without decades of largely unabated and unchecked violence, a white police officer doesn’t press the life out of George Floyd in the middle of the day knowing he is being recorded.

Without a leader who offers “both sides” false equivalencies after a car plows through peaceful Charlottesville marchers, we don’t have armed crowds assembling at state capitols to intimidate politicians in a pandemic that is dis proportionally decimating communities of color.

White Americans need to reckon with the reality:

America is still set up for the Amy Coopers and not the Christian Coopers.

We're not going to put crazy liberals into office just because liberals do crazy things. I'm sorry but you make no sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians been getting it these days.

+1

I’m Asian, and I don’t wear a mask when outside bc I don’t want to be targeted. I do wear a mask when indoors at a store.

Targeted for what?

I know quite a few Asians and have not heard anyone talking about being targeted.

Are you serious? Clearly while you may call them your friends, you are not an ally.

Wut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw comments about being Jewish, from New York, etc. we don’t know what happened before the video was shot but for context Bethesda Bagels is within 50-100 feet of where the video was taken so I assume the bagels reference had something to do with that?

The bagel reference seemed to literally refer to someone picking up bagels. I don’t think there was a religious/ethnic undertone to that.

In terms of Jewish, some people have speculated the man looks like he could be Jewish, but I don’t think he has been identified - yet. I am sure he will be and will probably suffer the same fate as Cooper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So there WAS a threat. He should go to jail.

What threat? Asking want to fight is not a threat that does or should get someone jailed. Referencing Hiroshima is absurd and offensive, but again not a threat to her.

Isn’t it amazing that so many DCUM people viewed calling a dog as a threat in the Central Park incident but don’t think “wanna fight” is a threat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So there WAS a threat. He should go to jail.

What threat? Asking want to fight is not a threat that does or should get someone jailed. Referencing Hiroshima is absurd and offensive, but again not a threat to her.

Isn’t it amazing that so many DCUM people viewed calling a dog as a threat in the Central Park incident but don’t think “wanna fight” is a threat.

But if it is not the same person taking those two contradictory positions, your comment is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians been getting it these days.

+1

I’m Asian, and I don’t wear a mask when outside bc I don’t want to be targeted. I do wear a mask when indoors at a store.

Targeted for what?

I know quite a few Asians and have not heard anyone talking about being targeted.

There have been tons of stories in the past fee months about Asians being subjected to verbal and even physical attacks. Numerous stories about racist comments made to Asian medical professionals who are treating patients. Please pay more attention and do a google search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So there WAS a threat. He should go to jail.

What threat? Asking want to fight is not a threat that does or should get someone jailed. Referencing Hiroshima is absurd and offensive, but again not a threat to her.

Isn’t it amazing that so many DCUM people viewed calling a dog as a threat in the Central Park incident but don’t think “wanna fight” is a threat.

But if it is not the same person taking those two contradictory positions, your comment is irrelevant.

And if it is the same person? Think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians been getting it these days.

+1

I’m Asian, and I don’t wear a mask when outside bc I don’t want to be targeted. I do wear a mask when indoors at a store.

Targeted for what?

I know quite a few Asians and have not heard anyone talking about being targeted.

Are you serious? Clearly while you may call them your friends, you are not an ally.

Wut?

People only talk about things like this with people that they trust are allies (or anonymously), if your Asian ‘friends’ aren’t talking about it with you, they do not consider you an ally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So there WAS a threat. He should go to jail.

What threat? Asking want to fight is not a threat that does or should get someone jailed. Referencing Hiroshima is absurd and offensive, but again not a threat to her.

Isn’t it amazing that so many DCUM people viewed calling a dog as a threat in the Central Park incident but don’t think “wanna fight” is a threat.

But if it is not the same person taking those two contradictory positions, your comment is irrelevant.

And if it is the same person? Think.

I wrote the post you responded to. I haven’t said a word about the Central Park incident. And, if I had, I would have said that the birder was in no way threatening or acting inappropriately.

So I did think, and your response is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a white person, I am grieving how prolific the white hatred of people of color is right now, but more than that I’m grieving how comfortable white Americans have all made it, the unimpeded path we’ve provided it, the way we’ve cooperated with it.

We haven’t needed to actively participate in a shooting or call in an erroneous harassment report or drive our knees into a stranger’s neck to be culpable for it all: our silence has been as deadly and that’s the story here. Racism doesn’t get this prolific and profitable and emboldened without our our inaction, without our abstinence, without our averted glances and uneasy truces and sidestepped difficult conversations.

We can’t pretend to understand the injustices people of color go through, but what we can do is stand up and refuse to remain silent.

Without decades of largely unabated and unchecked violence, a white police officer doesn’t press the life out of George Floyd in the middle of the day knowing he is being recorded.

Without a leader who offers “both sides” false equivalencies after a car plows through peaceful Charlottesville marchers, we don’t have armed crowds assembling at state capitols to intimidate politicians in a pandemic that is dis proportionally decimating communities of color.

White Americans need to reckon with the reality:

America is still set up for the Amy Coopers and not the Christian Coopers.

We're not going to put crazy liberals into office just because liberals do crazy things. I'm sorry but you make no sense.

You’ve proved the PP’s point.

People of color don’t have the luxury of hiding behind political ideologies and affiliations.

When a person of color does wrong it reflects back otn ALL Hispanics and ALL Blacks and ALL Asians and ALL Middle Easterners.

When a white person does wrong, however, they can conveniently shift the blame and say, “It’s not whites it’s the Liberals or the Democrats or the Conservatives or the Republicans.”

All white people have to do is hide behind political persuasions to avoid accountability which allows them to remain silent thus allowing injustices to persist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians been getting it these days.

+1

I’m Asian, and I don’t wear a mask when outside bc I don’t want to be targeted. I do wear a mask when indoors at a store.

Targeted for what?

I know quite a few Asians and have not heard anyone talking about being targeted.

Non-Asian person telling Asians what they experience. Check.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Asians been getting it these days.

+1

I’m Asian, and I don’t wear a mask when outside bc I don’t want to be targeted. I do wear a mask when indoors at a store.

Targeted for what?

I know quite a few Asians and have not heard anyone talking about being targeted.

Are you serious? Clearly while you may call them your friends, you are not an ally.

DP. From this Op-Ed: https://www.yahoo.com/news/op-ed-youre-white-dont-100010549.html

“As a healthcare reporter, I had covered America’s evolution on masks as the coronavirus spread across the globe. In January, I wrote an article about why Chinese immigrants insisted on wearing surgical and construction masks in the U.S., even though it went against official health recommendations at the time. In February, I wrote about Asian families in California clashing with schools over whether their children should be allowed to wear masks in class.

At that time, Asian people wearing masks were targets for verbal and physical abuse. Attackers saw masks on Asian faces as signs of disease and invasion; people were punched and kicked, harassed on public transit, bullied at school and worse.”