Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district.

The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press first revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails.

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

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[–] 239 points 1 month ago (43 children)

American culture seems to have nothing left in it besides the layers of violence.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    WHAT? Bet if i was there you wouldn't say that to my face.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    face

    That's a strange way to spell gun.

    That thing that make you strong and manly and AMERICAN.

    That, and the implied threat of violence because someone on the internet doesn't agree with your opinion of how great America is?

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    Literally impossible to tell the difference when it's just a line of text on a webpage.

    That particular phrasing isn't used as "a joke".

    That's why we typically use a "/s" to remove the ambiguity.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Racism is so American that when you protest it, people think you are protesting America.

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  • [+] -9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    I know, not on topic really, but lets not pretend that racism is an American trait and not a human one.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It's not human trait at all. No child is born racist, they're taught that.

    Which you're implying that it's a natutal human trait and therefore somehow acceptable on some level.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Lol, fuck off with that projection and putting words in my mouth. It's like you haven't traveled at all and experienced racism in the Far East, in Europe, in Africa, etc. What a bullshit take. Don't put fucking words in my mouth and think that you made a good point.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • It is not more pervasive here, it's just the hypocrisy is hard to take. Go to most parts of the world and you'll see racism still alive and kicking. It's just the US we have constantly patted ourselves on our backs for being the "melting pot" of the world, or the "salad bowl" as we were later described. Yet reality and history show that was, and is, just hypocritical bullshit.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

    Nothing left? Brother it had and has nothing else.

    It was started on the principles of "I moved here and now I own the land because god told me so, now stand still while I genocide your entire nationality"

    Moved to "I own you because someone brought you here on a boat and I need someone to work the fields."

    Moved to "You may have civil rights but we make all the drugs and write the laws"

    Moved to "Be free and happy, go do acid and don't look too closely at the vague yet menacing government agents wiretapping your homes, they are here for your safety"

    Moved to "Serial killers are everywhere (don't look too closely at them, either. Dont want you seeing their badges)"

    Moved to "We need agents everywhere watching everything, and Guantanamos in multiple locations because terrurists."

    Its a long line of bloody murder stretching all the way back to colonialism (and beyond!)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Exactly! It's never been anything else. The Europeans who first came there were narcissistic and racist sociopaths and it's all been that since then.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    America has preserved European values - more specifically 17th century European values such as racism, imperialism and the whole "might is right and a 'superior' race genociding an 'inferior' race to take their shit is absolutelly normal and fine".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    Lmao ah yes, thank you for clarifying that it's specifically 17th century europe, I was really worried someone might get all confused and think that modern europe has a problem with racist imperialism. No no, that's just america.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Please point out the part of my post were I wrote that modern Europe doesn't have a problem with racist imperialism.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    Uhm... That wasn't what you did, nor what I called out? So no, but I will say that trying to reframe criticism like that is a kinda dodgy tactic (if intentional).

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You and your strawman should probably get a room

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    I'm not clear if you've just wildly misunderstood my part of this conversation, or if you're simply unfamiliar with the strawman fallacy. Either way, there's been no strawman from me. And I quite suspect the one example from you was unintentional.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Im surprised school shootings is news at this point. Seems to be like a weekend event.

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