How do you feel about Occupy Wall Street?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I'm part of the food chain, so I guess that makes me both?

Who is hunting you?

[^_^ 5,021]

Nothing. The taxpayer got his money back with interest.

His and her. Don't be sexist, dude.

Who is hunting you?

I live in Jersey, predators lurk in the shadows.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I live in Jersey, predators lurk in the shadows.

I can see that. Just make sure you are not the easiest prey in the herd.

[^_^ 5,021]

I can see that. Just make sure you are not the easiest prey in the herd.

I smell pretty bad most of the time. I may be easy prey but I am very unpleasant.

[scandal 951]

As for me, I haven't found myself cheering on the NYPD this much in years... maybe ever. I was listening to my local hip hop radio station on the drive in this morning and they were talking about how 'the hood' is starting to show up at the protests and it isn't just white hippies anymore... about how this and that revolutionary party and socialist group and other various wackos are beginning to show up at the protests and it occurs to me that this is just a left version of the Tea Party. Fukc the Tea Party and fukc these Occupy Wall Street fukcheads too.

In many ways, this does feel like TeaParty-Left. And in many ways, I have the same reaction you do. Namely, no more patience for those who b1tch and moan from the left than those who do it from the right.

It's just not the American way to b1tch and moan, it's unseemly. The American way is supposed to be : Fall down? Get up, shake it off, and get back to work. If at first you didn't succeed? Try, try again. Don't complain. Don't blame the other guy. Don't look for a scapegoat. Just move on from adversity. The American success story is the humble guy who talks softly and who failed in business 11 times and made a million on the twelfth. We like heroes like that.

I support that sentiment, and I think the vast majority of Americans do too. But I think Americans also want a sense of fair play, that we're not playing with a marked deck. And when it's perceived that some people (insert your favorite villain here: Wall St., Investment banks, hedge funds, speculators, real estate investors, the subprime mortgage industry, welfare cheats, illegal immigrants, politicians, .....) are getting away with something the rest of us aren't, well, people get all uppitty and self righteous and like to protest.

And that's an American thing too, you know. It's right there in the First Amendment. The right to assemble, to wave signs in the air, to yell and scream and use a bullhorn to say nasty things about your neighbor and antagonize the NYPD. Whether you're a conservative teaparty nutjob, or a leftist flake hippy nutjob, that is your right.

[luckytxn 2,265]

I smell pretty bad most of the time. I may be easy prey but I am very unpleasant.

Just become the hunter and all is solved.

[Ban Hammer 13,501]

flawed poll - no "i don't care" vote

[^_^ 5,021]

flawed poll - no "i don't care" vote

How is I don't care different from not having an opinion?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Nothing. The taxpayer got his money back with interest.

That part I didn't know. I'm glad to hear that. I still don't trust that lot though.

[^_^ 5,021]

Just become the hunter and all is solved.

What if I don't see anything worth hunting? Most stuff I can't buy with my money sucks, you know.

[dalegg 143]

What do they want again? Do they want all the companies who have gone public to return to privately owned companies? What do they have against Wall Street?

[Ban Hammer 13,501]

How is I don't care different from not having an opinion?

not having an opinion = perhaps not having enough info.

not caring = don't give a chit one way or another.

[^_^ 5,021]

not having an opinion = perhaps not having enough info.

not caring = don't give a chit one way or another.

You are annoying.

"I have either not heard of Occupy Wall Street (until now) or know too little about it to have an opinion." == not having enough info

"I know exactly what Occupy Wall Street is about but don't have an opinion yet" == not caring OR ambivalent/confused

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

You are annoying.

"I have either not heard of Occupy Wall Street (until now) or know too little about it to have an opinion." == not having enough info

"I know exactly what Occupy Wall Street is about but don't have an opinion yet" == not caring OR ambivalent/confused

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Are the Wall Street protests racist and anti-semitic?

As the Occupy Wall Street protests have spread nationwide, questions have arisen about the diversity of the crowds attending the protests.

The Daily Caller reported Tuesday:

Though a few representatives of minority groups have appeared among the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in New York City, photos and videos of the left-wing mini-throngs indicate they suffer from a serious lack of diversity. And the protesters themselves told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that they are conscious of the issue, if not the inconsistency it demonstrates.

In a 40-photo slideshow at the Washington Post, the majority of protesters shown are white males.

Only 15 are clearly identifiable as minorities, and only six African-Americans are seen among the hundreds present.

The Daily Caller adds:

In 26 photos from San Francisco and Chicago gatherings posted on OccupyTogether.org, only one person from a minority group is clearly visible, and it’s unclear whether he is a protester or a bystander.

Minority groups are similarly underrepresented in photos and videos posted on OccupyWallSt.org, the self-described “unofficial de facto online resource for the ongoing protests happening on Wall Street.”

Even the “unofficial” organizers of the protest events admit this is — or at least appears to be — problematic.

Are the protests racist?

If these protesters were affiliated with the Tea Party, the media would certainly be asking that question.

OccupyWallSt.org’s Patrick Bruner assured the Daily Caller in an email that organizers were "working on reaching out to minority groups," and the protests are quite diverse.

"From observation, I can tell you that we’re not all white, and that we also have a huge LGBT [Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender] population," he said.

Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin called the protesters' claim to represent “99 percent” in America "ironic" because of the crowds apparent lack of racial diversity.

“When Occupy Wall Street activists call themselves the ‘99 percent,’ it turns out they mean 99 percent non-diverse (by their own politically correct measurements),” she wrote in an email.

“It’s as pale out there at Camp Alinsky as MSNBC’s prime-time lineup or the New York Times editorial board. Not counting the cameos by Jesse Jackson and Cornel West, that is.”

Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center said he thinks the crowds are “not as white as new-fallen snow, but almost.”

Both Malkin and Gainor noted the double standard displayed by the Democrat-media complex.

Matthew Boyle wrote:

“The liberal media will only engage in racial bean-counting of protest crowds when it serves their political ends: Namely, painting the Right as homogenous and non-inclusive,” Malkin said. “We heard endless derision about the tea party’s lack of skin-color diversity from Hollywood and the national press. But not a peep about the Abercrombie & Fitch-meets-Apple central casting mob swamping lower Manhattan.”

Gainor added that mainstream media representatives “only see what they want to see.” He said reporters scoured tea party rallies for evidence of racism, while failing to notice how “white” the left-wing crowds are.

Not only does the protest seem to lack racial diversity, at least two reports of anti-semitism have surfaced.

On Tuesday, Jonathon M. Seidl reported at The Blaze that a Jewish man was berated by one of the protesters:

National Review correspondent Charles Cooke posted video Tuesday of a young man berating an older Jewish man, calling him a bum (it seems in response to being called the same term), mocking him by asking him if he speaks English, and telling him to “go back to Israel.”

Seidl reported Wednesday that video of a second anti-semitic outburst has been found:

In the video dated October 3, Monday, a grungy-looking man can be seen near the site of the Occupy Wall St. protests screaming to the crowd that “the Jews control Wall Street!”

When a man who claims to be Jewish challenges the alleged protester’s remarks, he screams back, “This is not Israel,“ ”Freedom of speech,“ ”Google Wall Street Jew,“ ”You greedy pig,“ and ”Go to Israel!”

As tensions rise, the crowd alleges that the protester has been paid by Fox News to stage a scene, one man even saying “Didn’t I see you getting out of a Fox News van earlier?” and a woman asking if he got paid $50 to utter his hate. His response? “F**k Fox News“ and ”A f***ing Jew made that up.”

Seidl adds that several people stood up to the man, calling him "disruptive and offensive."

Where is the so-called mainstream media?

Judging from reports at Newsbusters, they're celebrating the protests.

On Monday, Kyle Drennen wrote:

Touting the protest as "a movement that has taken off in the past few weeks with protests spreading to other cities around the country," Franzen declared: "Labor experts say uprisings overseas have empowered protesters to speak out." A sound bite was included of Columbia University's Dorian Warren arguing: "Those movements, those revolutions led by young people [in the Middle East]...I think that's another, let's say, inspiration for why they are sitting-in now."

On Saturday's "Nightly News," Franzen offered a similar report, including another sound bite from Warren, who asserted the Wall Street protests were "a liberal version of the Tea Party." He added: "I think this could potentially carry over into the 2012 elections and get people to the polls."

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/are-the-wall-street-protests-racist-and-anti-semitic

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Edited October 7, 2011 by Crusty Old Perv