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Under the Dome: Castaneda has become council bully
Yet he's about to face a lawsuit over his actions and he's all over the local news with his name mired in bad press. This is what's called getting a pass? (Mar 22, 2013 | post #2)
Probably only the collectible value, whatever that may be, if it's from the old peso currency and if it's correct that those old coins are no longer legal tender in Mexico. (Mar 6, 2013 | post #2)
cockfighting raid in san benito county
Wow, all this for cockfighting. Didn't know cockfighting was a "human right" like shelter or food. (Jan 25, 2013 | post #7)
Hate crime and unethical conduct by Salinas Congressman Farr
What did the e-mail say, and who sent it? (Dec 22, 2012 | post #3)
12-year-old: "I was mad at the dog, so I killed it"
Never mind that a 12-year-old's brain is not even halfway to maturity. Chances are he's not even pubescent. We're talking about life sentences (or worse) for kids barely beyond birth, then? (Oct 29, 2012 | post #2)
Hollister Neighbors Take Down Suspected Burglar
QUOTE who="Chavo del eight"] This is for poster 'In_the _dark' who thinks revealing an on the run suspect's ethnicity is irrelevant.[/QUOTE ] Did I say that an on-the-run suspect's ethnicity is irrelevant? No, I didn't. Please reread post #2 if you would like more elaboration. (Oct 23, 2012 | post #5)
Hollister Neighbors Take Down Suspected Burglar
Hi, I heard that. As you are aware, I said in our earlier discussion of on-the-run individuals (or lack thereof), "you'd need a lot more than just race/ethnicity to identify the person." This is true, is it not? That, in addition to race/ethnicity, you would also need as many additional characteristics as possible? Such as in the linked story: "...25-28 years old. The driver was thin, dark-complected, and wore a white t-shirt. The passenger was heavy-set and wore a light gray hooded sweatshirt." I did not say ethnicity is irrelevant for the purposes of identifying an on-the-run crime suspect. Ethnicity is, however, irrelevant when the responsible person is known and not on the run, as in the earlier discussion. Ethnicity is also irrelevant, as I described in another earlier discussion, for the purposes of identifying a party to blame for crimes and ills in society, as individuals and ideologies are responsible for crimes and ills, not ethnicity. (Oct 23, 2012 | post #2)
1-year-old girl dies after run over by father
If the responsible person were on the run, you'd need a lot more than just race/ethnicity to identify the person, unless you're OK with rounding up a million people or so. But I see nothing about a criminal who is on the run, so race/ethnicity details are as relevant as the cloud-cover percentage as the time of the incident, the household's kilowatt-hour usage for the week, and the neighbor's favorite cheesecake recipe. (Oct 23, 2012 | post #4)
1-year-old girl dies after run over by father
Yeah, and the make/model of the car, the species of the nearest tree, the first letter in the street's name, and other equally relevant details. (Oct 22, 2012 | post #2)
'Good Samaritan' breaks up robbery, shoots teenage suspects
But why that stereotype is there is unjust. You don't deserve to be subjected to it, and to accept it as legitimate is not fair to anyone, including yourself. That's not PC—that's fair. "You pretend like people just make up things for no reason." I'm not pretending at all—these stereotyping people really are making up things for no reason, holding you as a Latino to a different standard that you don't deserve, just because you and some arrested person share an ethnicity. Out of thin air, the stereotypers create something that's not true, a connection between you and some criminal. They have no justification to use those gangs and their gang activity against you. They are wrong to do that. To treat these stereotypers as being reasonable is to accept the idea that a Hispanics problem exists in Salinas, which you know is not true. The only way Hispanic criminals can "ruin it" for "respectable upstanding Hispanics" is through people who illogically and unnecessarily associate these two parties with each other. This is something that, I'm sorry to say, you are doing by treating the stereotyping as an OK, uncontrollable matter of nature rather than a conscious human behavior. You might want to rethink the message you are sending rather than perpetuate those stereotypers' anti-Latino behavior. (Oct 16, 2012 | post #10)
'Good Samaritan' breaks up robbery, shoots teenage suspects
You know very well Salinas does not have a Hispanics problem. It has a crime problem. Unless you have participated in crime, you are not responsible for crime, not as a Latino, not as a person. What have you done to violate the peace? Nothing? Then you deserve no blame for violations of the peace. If you suffer from a stereotyping problem, that's a shame, but it's in the mind of those wrongly holding the stereotype, the ones who blame you and other innocent people for acts of criminals. You're blaming the gangs for the stereotyping when it's the stereotypers who are stereotyping, not the gangs. The stereotypers mistreat you; why legitimize that? (Oct 15, 2012 | post #8)
'Good Samaritan' breaks up robbery, shoots teenage suspects
You're the one who said that the deceased Hispanic suspect brings "disgrace and insult to the very few upstanding Hispanics," as if the "very few upstanding Hispanics" have anything to do with the deceased. The disgracer is responsible for the disgrace. The people who share the disgracer's ethnicity are not responsible for the disgrace. But you're saying they are. I tell you, that ticket's a disgrace, and you're responsible for it as a fellow Hispanic, so pay up please. (Oct 15, 2012 | post #6)
'Good Samaritan' breaks up robbery, shoots teenage suspects
Right, Cd8, "the Hispanic community" is responsible for every mistake made by everyone else in "the Hispanic community." That reminds me—my "Hispanic " friend got a driving ticket 11 years ago. Are you Hispanic, Cd8? Oh, you are; well, since you are responsible for other Hispanics' mistakes, please reimburse my friend in the amount of $144.73. Thank you for observing your duty as a responsible Hispanic. (Oct 14, 2012 | post #4)
Christmas is the biggest holiday event each year in the US, and everyone here is free to celebrate it if they wish, even though it commemorates an event that occurred very far away in a foreign land. Why shouldn't people on the US also be free to celebrate an event that occurred in Mexico, incidentally the one that brought our land of California independence from Spain? Why shouldn't people celebrate their close ties to Mexican culture? And why shouldn't the local news cover it, if local people choose this activity? It's not as if doing so is a renunciation of US allegiance. (No, neither is displaying a Mexican flag within the US.) Every year we celebrate independence from Britain. Is it wrong to celebrate independence from Spain, too, or is that independence overrated? (Sep 18, 2012 | post #4)
Who cares about whether US people celebrate July 4 in Mexico? This is the US, where we do use our rights of free assembly and speech to celebrate El Grito, Bastille Day, Nowruz, Vietnamese New Year, and others, in addition to July 4. And El Grito is _not_ a foreign holiday in California. The 13 Colonies broke from Europe on July 4, 1776; likewise, California broke from Europe on September 16, 1810, the day of El Grito. California might still be Spain without the September 16 event. July 4 is the national day of independence in the US and therefore in California, but California was either European-controlle d or Mexican for seven decades after US independence. El Grito is therefore California history, and it is therefore American history. It is absolutely deserving of at least a few paragraphs in the paper. (Sep 17, 2012 | post #2)
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