I’m delighted to learn how many of us have this association with the word. It kind of justifies this thread’s existence!
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I had never seen that word, but correctly deduced its meaning. It’s a nice sounding word. I’m happy to have come across it. Read more

Thank you for explaining your thought process here! I love to know why people choose the words they do. Read more

I was happy to come across it in this article, it’s a lovely descriptor and it’s always good to know a synonym for a common word. You would think people with bigly vocabularies would be pleased to add a new one to their options!
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The hypocrisy is rich on both sides. Seems to me that bad cops come in all colors. And so do innocent victims. But that’s probably not the take away here. This incedent should blunt the racist white cops idea, but it won’t. It should prove that bad things can happen when people with guns get nervous, no matter the… Read more

It’s just sad that American exceptionalism keeps even the supposed liberals wanting police reform from actually achieving something. Read more

In conclusion, humans are fA3k’ed up. Humans will always be racist till the end of time. The end. Only if all humans learn that we are all brothers and sisters, know how to treat each person in this world like your own brothers and sisters, maybe then we can find peace. But that would just be a dream because most… Read more

Clearly, you have not watched the Lion King 150 times. Read more

Sorry, while I agree with this sentiment, the BLM movement is missing a huge opportunity here. You/they should be taking this crime and using it to highlight just how fucked up the police are. Read more

Damond was no more innocent than Aiyana Stanley-Jones or Tamir Rice, seven and 12 years old respectively when they were shot by police. But she is the embodiment of what a lot of people understand to be innocence: white, beautiful, kind, affianced. Not the type of person who gets themselves shot by the police.
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I thought this was interesting/disturbing: Read more

While the overall point stands, I don’t think it’s helpful to say she was “no more innocent” than Tamir Rice. They aren’t really comparable situations. “Innocent” is subjective, but Tamir Rice legitimately had a fake gun and had the police called about him. He was just playing with it, and it wasn’t really illegal,… Read more

What annoys me about this country is that violence and racism is totally cool, until a white person gets the short end of the stick, then suddenly everyone runs about like the damn sky is falling. Read more

And yet they do. So your doubts mean nothing. Read more

“Rightfully, black activists and writers have pointed out the hypocrisy implied in his words: that black people who are shot by police are not innocent but somehow deserving of their fates.” Read more

There’s some very good points in this article. There’s an overarching theme around the way white middle class victims of police murder get treated as opposed to blacks of the same level. Read more

This article does apply to unrelated women shot in the course of duty, but not, I suspect, entirely apply to intimate partners of policemen who happen to go “missing.” Read more

The word “Affianced” is used in The Lion King. If a G-rated movie’s target audience can figure it out than I am sure the readers on Splinter can as well. Read more

Retire the term “racially charged” & just say “racist”. Read more

I think there needs to be a better way for the public to understand how police are trained. They are taught on a daily basis that people are out to get them. They are told stories of officers getting shot two weeks before retirement at a traffic stop. They assume anyone approaching their car is out to get them. They… Read more