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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    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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      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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        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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          18 hours ago

          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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            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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                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.