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Armed robbery thwarted by Shomrim on March 25th, 11:30 AM at Kingston Ave and Crown St. — Brooklynian

Armed robbery thwarted by Shomrim on March 25th, 11:30 AM at Kingston Ave and Crown St.

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  • pragmaticguy
    pragmaticguy
    Firearm = gun
  • dac545
    dac545
    image

    Not necessarily.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited March 2015
    I think when I first read the links, they just said "weapon".

    I am usually aware that firearm = gun.

    ...perhaps I was not this morning. I must have been sleepy.
  • Esperanza
    Esperanza
    Reading the comments on CrownHeights Info site for comic value. Wow...simply wow.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    It may be able to be summed up as:

    "When one does not seek to maintain or establish a diverse audience, one reveals one's true thoughts, and allows others to do the same."
  • mike dunlap
    mike dunlap
    edited March 2015
    Reading the comments on CrownHeights Info site for comic value. Wow...simply wow.
    Yeah, sad stuff.  A lot to admire about their community (as with most communities) but also a lot of  examples of what usually comes from extreme, religiously-motivated isolation.  Paranoia, bigotry, aggressive shaming of apostates, etc.  As a white Southerner by background, I'm very familiar with this kind of culture.  The similarities between the ultra-Orthodox and white Christian South are numerous; no coincidence they generally share the same politics and apocalyptic worldview.

  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    edited March 2015
    Meh, I am not ready to put the white Chirstian South or the Lubavitch into such boxes.

    When I read the comment sections of various publications, it becomes clear that the moderators have different philosophies of what can be expressed, and whether anonimity should be allowed.

    As a result, thoughtful people either feel at home or not. In this way, I am glad that publications such as NY Post exist. The paper seems to cater to those who enjoy crime stories, and those who enjoy writing about eugenics.

    Meanwhile, the content and comment sections of things like the Economist and the NYT cater to a population that I perceive myself as being more similar to.

    In otherwords:
    I often can't change the people in the room. So I am just glad there is more than one room, and then change the room I am in.

    Crownheights.info, I am thinking of you.
  • pragmaticguy
    pragmaticguy
    I have sent in comments to Crown Heights Info that didn't agree with their point of view. They never got posted. So, I am never surprised that there's nothing negative about anything they print.
  • WokHeiStirOrFry
    WokHeiStirOrFry
    Comments like that are why I left the community. Once you get out there and realize that the ideology and stereotypes you've been fed are ridiculous, it really makes you start to think more critically. Crownheights.info is really one of the worse Lubavitch news sites out there (it's highly political, catering to one side of an internal Lubavitch dispute), but those comments are not from just a few kooks. Their views are, sadly, reflective of the majority of the Crown Heights chassidic community and the Brooklyn chareidi world at large. That said, not everyone is like this, and non-NYers who actually have to interact with non-Jews, less religious or non-religious Jews, people of other races, LGBT+ people, etc., especially outside of business settings, tend to be slightly more progressive. 

    It's just absurd to paint all blacks as criminals and then get upset and cry "anti-Semitism" when someone else stereotypes or otherwise inconveniences/offends religious Jews. Sorta like how the white ultra-Christian south combines their "war on Christianity" rhetoric with their real war on Islam.
  • whynot_31
    whynot_31
    welcome @wokheistirorfry

    I hope you have found, or will find, a room you like.
  • mike dunlap
    mike dunlap
    edited March 2015
    Sorta like how the white ultra-Christian south combines their "war on Christianity" rhetoric with their real war on Islam.
    ...and working class blacks, Hispanics, atheists, etc.

    I've read accounts of people who have left cults, and I know from personal experience there are many similarities with leaving Southern white evangelical churches. Sounds like leaving ultra-Orthodox communities is much the same. I recently read an account from an African-American who grew up in a Jehovah's Witness family in Crown Heights. Same stuff.

    Many good people I'm sure... but when you're out throwing giant parades hoping dead dudes will come down out of the clouds... yikes.
  • WokHeiStirOrFry
    WokHeiStirOrFry
    edited March 2015
    ...and working class blacks, Hispanics, atheists, etc

    I meant that more in a religious sense, that it's hypocritical to claim that you're a victim of religious persecution while actively persecuting other people for their religion. But you're not wrong!

    but when you're out throwing giant parades hoping dead dudes will come down out of the clouds... yikes.

    This sentence was made much funnier thanks to the great Cloud to Butt Plus extension for Chrome:

    but when you're out throwing giant parades hoping dead dudes will come down out of my butts... yikes.

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