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The irony is that most of the stores that were destroyed during the riots were owned by black people.
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That's stupid though.
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I mean, why trash your own neighborhood?
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Well, that's my point.
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It's an irrational act.
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It's like an expression of rage by people who feel neglected and turned away by the system.
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Exactly.
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I mean, it's like we had in Watts or the riots in Chicago in 68.
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That's crap.
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I don't buy that for a minute.
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Calling a riot an irrational expression of rage is such a cop-out.
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It's opportunism at its worst.
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It's a bunch of people grabbing any excuse they can find to go and loot a store.
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Nothing more.
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You know, the fact that these people ripped off the stores in their own communities,
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all that reflects is the degree in
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which these people have absolutely no respect for the law at all and certainly no concept of,
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like, community or civic responsibility.
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Wait a minute.
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White people commit crimes against white people, too.
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Yeah, but they're not offing each other in record numbers all over America.
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Look at the statistics, for Christ's sakes.
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It's one in every three black males is in some phase of the correctional system.
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Is that a coincidence?
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Or do these people have,
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you know, like a racial commitment to crime?
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Well, not only that, they're proud of it.
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Well, maybe it says something about prejudice in the judicial system.
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Yeah, if you want to talk about criminal statistics,
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you might want to take a look at the social inequalities that produce them.
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Yeah, yeah, you know what?
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That's exactly what I hate,
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because what you're doing, Davina,
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is taking one thing and calling it something else and just,
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you know, alleviating the responsibility that these people have for their own actions.
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You know, it's like saying,
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it's not a riot, it's rage.
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It's not crime, it's poverty.
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It's just nonsense.
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Bullshit.
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You know, it's exactly what happened in this trial,
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too, because the media twisted things around so people got all focused on,
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you know, these cops and whether or not they were going to get convicted
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and whether Rodney King's civil rights had been violated.
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I mean, everybody lost sight of old Rodney King himself.
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I mean, the guy's a multiple felon by his own admission.
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He's high as a goddamn kite,
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driving 120 miles an hour down the highway.
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He gets pulled over by a bunch of cops, and he attacks them.
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He attacked police officers.
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That's the bottom line.
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And he walked.
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Yeah, and there's some Yahoo there with a video camera who turned it on halfway through
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so that all we see is them hitting him.
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Exactly.
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You know, you got Powell and Coon winding up
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and cracking him with billy gloves and Bersenio kicking him in the back of the skull so it looks severe,
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you know, and people are going,
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oh, this poor guy, this poor guy who attacked four cops
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and those cops end up on the stand defending themselves for using absolutely standard textbook self-defense procedures.
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I don't think that the tape showed that at all.
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You didn't think so, huh?
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And what, you're an authority, Ma?
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Murray, what do you think?
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Well, I did think that the police use their clubs rather excessively.
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Who are you to say what's excessive?
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I think it was totally appropriate.
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I think they're in a better position to make that judgment call than you are.
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In fact, we as society grant cops a certain amount of authority to make those calls
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because we acknowledge that their job is difficult and dangerous.
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You know, unfortunately very few people like respect that, respect that authority.
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Look who's talking about respect here, Mr. Junior KKK.
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What?
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You know what, you know what,
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you wanna go to college, Doreena?
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You should learn to listen.
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Derek!
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Okay, I didn't say I respect any laws.
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Derek!
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I acknowledge a cop's authority.
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I don't respect any laws that let monkeys like Rodney King back on the street.
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Second of all, I am not,
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as you well know, a member of a low rent,
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disorganized bunch of rednecks like the fucking KKK.
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Please.
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So, take your head out of your ass.
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You've gotten off the point.
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I had a point.
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That wasn't even the point.
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Do you have one?
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What is your point, Derek?
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All right, think about this.
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Think about this.
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If Danny had been walking across the street that night,
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and Rodney King had clouted into...
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Can we just drop this Rodney King thing?
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Who would like some dessert?
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We're having a discussion.
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We're having a nice discussion, right?
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If Rodney King had been driving along,
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hopped up on Chivas Regal and PCP and had killed Danny,
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he'd be singing a very different tune about the force of those cops.
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I didn't see him hit anybody in the tapes, and neither did you.
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He didn't happen to kill anybody, thank God.
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Put it down, okay?
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Allie's sleeping.
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If he had though, I mean,
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come on, think about it.
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If that fucking monkey had run some kid over,
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everybody would have a very different opinion of this whole matter.
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You know, they'd be focused on Rodney King and not on these officers,
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but instead he just attacked a few cops.
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And so all of a sudden it's hands across America for this fucking total son of a bitch.
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I mean, it blows my mind.
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We're so hung up on this notion that we have some obligation to help this struggling black man,
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you know, cut him some slack until he can overcome these historical injustices.
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It's crap.
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This stuff you guys are saying just perpetuates it.
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All this liberal nonsense, you know?
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Everyone's turning and looking the other way while our country rots from the inside out.
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Christ, Lincoln freed the slaves.
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What, like 130 years ago?
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How long does it take to get your act together?
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Well, Jews have been persecuted for over 5,000 years.
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Are you saying that it's wrong to feel sensitive about anti-Semitism?

Perché praticare la conversazione con questo video?

Questo video con Edward Norton offre uno spunto unico per praticare la conversazione in inglese. In particolare, affronta temi complessi e sociali, utilizzando un linguaggio colloquiale e diretto. Guardare e ascoltare un dialogo intenso come questo può aiutarti a migliorare la tua capacità di espressione e a comprendere meglio le emozioni e le reazioni dei parlanti. Inoltre, esercitandoti con tecniche di shadowing in inglese, puoi assimilare non solo le parole, ma anche il tono e l'intonazione, aspetti essenziali per una pronuncia naturale. Praticare con video del genere ti permette di confrontarti con situazioni reali e di sviluppare un vocabolario pertinente.

Grammatica e Espressioni nel Contesto

Nel dialogo, emergono alcune strutture grammaticali e frasi chiave che possono arricchire il tuo repertorio linguistico:

  • "That's stupid though." - un modo informale per esprimere disaccordo.
  • "It's an irrational act." - qui si utilizza il termine "irrational" per descrivere comportamenti che sfuggono alla logica comune.
  • "They have absolutely no respect for the law." - utilizza la costruzione "have... for" per esprimere possesso di sentimenti o valori.
  • "It says something about prejudice in the judicial system." - impiega un'espressione idiomatica per sottolineare un messaggio implicito.

Queste strutture non solo ti aiuteranno a comprendere meglio il discorso, ma saranno utili anche nella tua comunicazione quotidiana in inglese. Analizzando e replicando frasi, puoi imparare l'inglese con YouTube in modo efficace.

Trappole di Pronuncia Comuni

Durante il video, puoi incontrare alcune parole e frasi che potrebbero rivelarsi difficili da pronunciare:

  • "irrational" - attenzione alla sillabazione, potrebbe essere confusa con "rational".
  • "opportunism" - fai attenzione all'accento sulla terza sillaba.
  • "commitment" - la ‘tt’ è spesso pronunciata in modo diverso rispetto all'italiano; esercitati ad articolare correttamente.

Concentrarsi su queste parole ti aiuterà a migliorare la pronuncia inglese e a evitare errori comuni. Utilizzando il metodo dello shadowing, puoi ascoltare attentamente e ripetere, rendendo la tua pratica più efficace.

In sintesi, questo video non solo presenta un contenuto stimolante, ma offre anche l'opportunità di crescere nella tua padronanza della lingua grazie a tecniche avanzate come shadowspeaks.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.