Protection Money

[olpapa]

I remember back in the heyday of the Italian mobs, goons made their rounds to businesses regularly and collected “protection money.” Businesses that did not pay the protection money did not fair well.

I see the contributions being made to BLM by businesses large and small as “protection money”.... funding BLM in hopes of not being targeted when the rioters go on their next rampage. I doubt we will ever see a crackdown on BLM such as we saw on the mob.

Any opinions on this one way or the other?

[ɮօʀȶǟʐ]

Semi-related: The Cleveland Indians are dropping the "Indians" part of their name because some drunk tribesmen on welfare 300 years later is offended.

[unionstation82]

Dec 14, 2020 14:50:35 GMT -6 ɮօʀȶǟʐ said:

Semi-related: The Cleveland Indians are dropping the "Indians" part of their name because some drunk tribesmen on welfare 300 years later is offended.

The only one that made sense was dropping “Redskins”. The other ones are baseless and offend very few people.

[thomasj13]

Dec 14, 2020 18:24:27 GMT -6 unionstation82 said:

Dec 14, 2020 14:50:35 GMT -6 ɮօʀȶǟʐ said:

Semi-related: The Cleveland Indians are dropping the "Indians" part of their name because some drunk tribesmen on welfare 300 years later is offended.

The only one that made sense was dropping “Redskins”. The other ones are baseless and offend very few people.

India before long will surpass the population of China, how limited thinking of Cleveland.

[abregmanfan]

Dec 14, 2020 9:54:31 GMT -6 olpapa said:

I remember back in the heyday of the Italian mobs, goons made their rounds to businesses regularly and collected “protection money.” Businesses that did not pay the protection money did not fair well.

I see the contributions being made to BLM by businesses large and small as “protection money”.... funding BLM in hopes of not being targeted when the rioters go on their next rampage. I doubt we will ever see a crackdown on BLM such as we saw on the mob.

Any opinions on this one way or the other?

I consider BLM a mob. I will not give any "protection money" to the BLM movement, just as I won't give money to the KKK or Black Panthers. All in the same, imo.

[koolade2]

^^^ Keep that up and you will have a Negative Social Score and will not be able to Travel, Get Credit etc. It is coming don't think it isn't. That will be the Biden America