Brown was "armed with his incredibly strong, scary self..." Why won't these people STFU????

[Iris]

Ben Stein, shut the fuck up, PLEASE!!!!!]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-stein-michael-brown-unarmed

[elleng]

1. He can't help himself,

he's a weak chicken-sh*t who CAN'T keep his mouth shut.

[XemaSab]

2. Correction:

He was "armed with his incredibly strong, scary, NEGRO self..."

You know that's what he meant to say.

[salin]

3. So police should consider all high-school through NFL/NBA players as armed

and dangerous. Shoot first and ask questions later.

Really?

How about all olympic boxers and wrestlers.

How about a lot of the guys coming out of Gold's Gym - if they happen to be tall and workout a lot?

Seems like a sizable slice of the population could fit Stein's definition.

Given the slightest provocation - would a college football team's offensive line be at risk of being picked off because they were "armed and dangerous" per Stein's definition?

How ridiculous. And complete ridiculousness - needs to be ridiculed.

[RagAss]

4. Piece of Shit.

[MADem]

5. Armed with his MELANIN, is what he wants to say.

Thus the reference to this bit o'business:

"...was akin to "calling Sonny Liston unarmed or Cassius Clay unarmed."

He seems to have forgotten that the latter gentleman has been ALI for many decades, so what's with the "Clay" reference, except perhaps to say that a black man's decision to shed the name that was a vestige of slave culture is not to be respected?

And I'm sorry, young Mister Brown was a large kid, a fat kid, frankly, but not a very fit kid--that is readily apparent. Muhammad Ali, despite his advanced age and illness, could have easily decked him today--if the teenager hadn't been killed by that police, of course.

The person who was ARMED was that police man.

I'm calling RACIST on Ben Stein--the "armed" because you're black bullshit, the comparison of a fat kid with two highly trained, world-famous, BLACK prizefighters (because, ya know, they're all BLACK) and that Cassius Clay horseshit, well, that was the icing on the racist cake.

Who's with me?

[Iris]

7. ^all of this. Everything.^

[logosoco]

20. I am right there with the same thoughts.

That was just bull to call Ali by the name he wanted to get rid of. Didn't he do the most fights of his career under his chosen name?

[MADem]

24. Yes, he won one heavyweight title as Clay, and the next two as Ali.

He was "The Greatest" and he deserves to be called by his proper name. What Stein did was a triple whammy--he dehumanized all three black men, he mocked the dead teenager, and he denied Muhamad Ali his own agency over his person. It was a terribly rude, dismissive and racist commentary by Stein--probably the lowest point of a low career.

[frylock]

6. Ben Stein is on my short list of deaths that I'll celebrate

[raven mad]

27. I'll join you.

With a full bladder.

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Ben ...

As a, self-described "StrongBlackMan", how do I cash in on my "incredibly strong, scary self"?

[Iris]

9. ha! I'm glad you made an appearance here!

I'm not sure Ben thought that through. Because, according to him, just walking out the door justifies someone killing you.

(and this is feeling less and less funny. It sounds more offensive than I mean it to. Or, rather, it sounds offensive but I don't mean it to be. I'm just offended by Ben Stiller's comment.)

[1StrongBlackMan]

10. LOL ...

I'm just trying to figure out how to cash in.

But I guess, just not getting shot (or having to bury my nephews) is payment enough for Benny.

[lunasun]

11. Always an asshole comment from this POS. Nothing new disgusting as usual

[Iris]

12. I just want them all to quit being disgusting. Why can't they act like human beings? why? why? why?

n/t

[HubertHeaver]

13. Because they aren't.

(human beings, that is)

[AverageJoe90]

14. Ben Stein's been irrelevant since the Ferris Bueller days.

Now he's just a complete moron. Again, how does an unarmed teenager, running AWAY from cops, pose any real threat, no matter his size?

[MADem]

15. No, that racist POS had a good run with Jimmy Kimmel with the

"Win Ben Stein's Money" franchise.

But now, he is what he is--a racist POS. I'd like to see "Cassius Clay" beat the living shit out of him--and I know he could, even now, with a hand behind his back. It would be well deserved.

[KurtNYC]

16. 2 main reasons -- 1) they put a microphone in front of him, and 2) Dunning Kruger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[Iris]

17. I love it that you brought Dunning Kruger effect into this!

It is so appropriate!

[KurtNYC]

18. many have long suspected that "some people don't know when to shut up"

Dunning Kruger proved it.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

19. incompetent and unaware, is something that I think of all the time

kruger & dunning's work is highly applicable often

[KurtNYC]

21. when I was Googling Dunning Kruger for that Wik link, Google suggested "Dunning Kruger Sarah Palin"

[La Lioness Priyanka]

22. LOL.

[Iris]

23. ha! n/t

[Wella]

25. Has anyone heard the latest smear?

Apparently some joker on Twitter has announced that Michal Brown committed murder as a juvenile. No proof. Just a smear. Isn't Twitter great? You can obsess on a tan suit (instead of paying attention to the substance of the President's remarks) AND you can slander people in the grave. This is why I don't do Twitter.

[Iris]

33. This sort of shallowness has been a hallmark of our culture for years. Social media

makes it more obvious.

[Blue Owl]

26. A Has Ben that never was

n/t

[jwirr]

28. 25 feet or more away from the shooter.

[spanone]

29. stein = ass

[Kalidurga]

30. I have burps that sound more intelligent

yet a lot of RWers hold this guy up as an intellectual.

[Iris]

34. It's because he wears glasses.

That was Rick Perry's strategy for 2016. But then that pesky indictment happened.

[pansypoo53219]

31. so, white people are by nature pussies?

oh wait. fux gnewz. i guess they are, or WHITE MALES are.

[TorchTheWitch]

32. sounds like a crazy on Yahoo comments section

"Armed" and "unarmed" have specific meanings. Doesn't matter if you're 7 feet tall, built like a brick wall and are a marshall arts champion... if you have no weapon be it a gun, knife, bat, etc. than you aren't "armed".

Next some assnoodle will complain that because he had two arms he was not only "armed" but doubly so!