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We don’t really have time for Spanky McFarlane. We’ve outgrown him because he’s small potatoes. He’s a nobody, loser columnist for a dying newspaper at the Turtlegram. But every once in a while he writes something that just has to be addressed because it’s so, so stupid. Today is one of those days.

The Turtlegram published this column about Charlie Baker’s plan to increase punishments for people who assault cops. It’s a common sense proposal. It doesn’t mean that police are better people that get preferred treatment under the law. Rather it sends a message that we will not tolerate an attack on the people we pay to protect us. Because when you attack or kill a cop, you’re doing more than just harming an individual and a family. You’re assaulting the very fabric of our society. Moronic judges in this state hand out lenient punishments to career criminals time and time again. A firm message needs to be sent – if you attack the cops, then you’ve attacked all of us.

Naturally though, Clive McFarlane believes this sort of policy is racist:

Fair enough, if you are willing to ignore reality, willing to dismiss those members of the community who do not believe all police officers are doing a “fantastic job” of protecting them, willing to ignore the disparate impact similar knee-jerk legislation has had on communities of color. It is shocking, really, that in 2016, when lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are finally acknowledging the devastation wrought in communities of color under the war-on-drugs banner, that we would be entertaining a bill that potentially could increase the criminalization of these communities.

So let me get this straight. Spanky McFarlane opposes this bill because he thinks increasing penalties for people who assault cops would “increase the criminalization” of communities of color? In other words, Clive is saying that he doesn’t think people in communities of color can stop assaulting cops. That’s what he said, not me. Personally I think this bill won’t have any effect on communities of color because I believe that all people have the decency and common sense not to assault cops.

But Clive thinks otherwise because he has such low expectations for communities of color. Personally Turtleboy prefers to have high expectations. We want people who assault cops to be thrown in jail because it will improve the quality of life in those communities. Clive wants them to continue to terrorize “communities of color.” But of course that’s only because Clive doesn’t live in “communities of color.” He lives in a nearly all white neighborhood on the West Side, and runs in nearly all-white social circles. In other words, he’s Worcester’s version of OJ Simpson.

The bottom line is that this bill only affects people who assault cops. If you don’t try to attack cops then you will have nothing to worry about. Anyone who thinks that people of color are more likely to attack cops is probably a huge racist. That’s Clive McFarlane – Worcester’s resident racist.

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