Article 15 - Man gets police called on him after complaining too much about Rebel Flag Vest in thrift store

Basically a guy walked into a clothing store, saw a rebel flag vest, and complained...first to the cashier, then the manager, then the owner. The manager said they don't promote certain beliefs and called the owner, and the owner removed the offending shirt. Supposedly the man still kept complaining about it and had to have the police called on him.

Disclosure: The store owner supposedly said some rude things like mentioning Jussie Smollett being a liar, and swore a bit, but supposedly the guy got overly upset over one article of clothing in a store known to cater to everyone equally and fairly.

I found this line to be interesting:

“I didn’t want to be the next unarmed black man shot or killed by the police, so we left,” Dennis tells Yahoo Lifestyle.

I can get getting upset over symbology of past bad events in history, but if the owner removed the vest then the guy should've just left it at that & moved on....the line above just makes him out to be someone with a victim complex & unfairly paints all cops as bad guys.

I don't know what's there to discuss about those issues? If there was a discussion about culture war issues and/or race relations in the US, that would just end in a terrible flamewar and get the thread locked.
I suppose most people still on Gog are tired of that kind of stuff, it's a bit too 2016.

People have differing views on the issues and as such some might want to weigh in and see what others think as well.

Yes, some don't want to get drawn into a possible back-forth or be associated with such by posting, and others might just see the topics as "not a good fit for the forums here"...this doesn't mean said topics cannot be valid/worthwhile to discuss here/elsewhere, though.

But you know that political discussions have been pretty much banned here, don't you?
And issues like the confederate flag in the US or the question of alleged police racism/violence are political. So I don't quite get what you're hoping to achieve with that thread. I doubt anything positive will come of it.

Political discussions being banned is vaguely worded at best(this is not to say I am advocating for breaking the rules). To me, the rules covers gov't(current ones) discussion, discussion of elections/politicians/etc....NOT current events or "social politics".

As such, and until someone from staff clarifies that rule/etc I feel such on GOG is fair game to discuss, although I get how some might interpret the rule differently given how vague it is.

Heck, if one wanted to broadly define it a ton of stuff would be verboten as politics, and without a clarified rule(with specifics) who is right or wrong is moot(imo) atm.

As for what I wanted to accomplish: Simply discussion on current events that fit the topic/title.....as most things that fit such topic usually fall into the realm of social events/current events of course most articles posted are probably going to be on such things.

I can see how they wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea, though, and I didn;t make such to cause anyone to become upset/don't force anyone to weigh in or add to the thread. I just mainly wanted to have a discussion on the thread topic.

Don't bump your own thread for visibility, dude. Bad form.

People do it all the time for contests/question threads/wishlist threads/etc. What about them?

Yes, some might not like it but it doesn't hurt anyone and if no one replies in some time the thread usually goes back down to the bottom of the pile.

(Also to be fair I only did it once so far ITT, and usually try to avoid doing so/will not do such unless I have something new to add)

Article 16 - Columbine officials want to TEAR DOWN ENTIRE SCHOOL because of morbid fascination with the school

Yes, you heard that right....because some morbidly obsess over the school online/irl they want to tear down a perfectly good set of buildings and burden those who pay taxes just to TRY to cut down such fascination.

Since it's taxpayer money, they could at least have the decency to sell it to the highest bidder so it can come to use some other way. But no, of course the taxpayers should be financially flogged and finance the virtue signaling of politicians because of feelz.

1. Pay taxes for the school to get built
2. Psychotic assholes happen
3. Pay taxes to dear down the school
4. Pay taxes to finance a new school

It's easy to play fast and loose when it's not your money.

People in general do such things.....if it;s not one;s money and pulls at heartstrings they propose it.

Also imo it'd be INSANE if we tore down every building where people died/something bad happened because of people's feelings....not to mention the historical site being torn down(in some cases).

Maybe it's because the Columbine school shooting has a special status, it was really big news at the time, with the killers even appearing on the cover of TIME magazine, basically becoming celebrities after their death...and they've been cited as inspiration by many later school shooters.
Tearing town the building probably wouldn't change anything of that though.

That last line you wrote is why I think this would be a bad idea....most likely people would still obsess over the incident(or worse) even with a new building & wasting money on MAYBE stopping some of it sounds questionable at best.

Also(imo) people would've done such other shooting even without columbine.

To some degree, maybe, but people are only human and imo it would've happened anyways(various crimes). Humans are sadly very creative when it comes to being inhuman to other people.