Topic: Racism in USAmerica
Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago #29,299
squeegee joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later[^] [v] #429,208
Wait... I thought the media... only cared about kidnapped blonde white girls?
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #429,211
squeegee replied with this 13 years ago, 43 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #429,212
Anonymous C replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #429,214
@previous (squeegee)
Nah, they all had the correct three dots. If you were under Bertish influence, they would have had anything but three dots.
Nah, they all had the correct three dots. If you were under Bertish influence, they would have had anything but three dots.
beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 29 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,216
Yeah, I think the response of police and prosecutors is kind of an obvious and huge difference.
Of course, the basic problem is our gun culture. As long as any idiot can carry a gun for no reason at all, we're just going to be quibbling over which shootings were "better" or "worse." Civilized countries shouldn't be debating about when it's OK for private citizens to shoot people dead or not, or which dead teenager is preferable to another. It's fucking stupid and it makes me sick.
Of course, the basic problem is our gun culture. As long as any idiot can carry a gun for no reason at all, we're just going to be quibbling over which shootings were "better" or "worse." Civilized countries shouldn't be debating about when it's OK for private citizens to shoot people dead or not, or which dead teenager is preferable to another. It's fucking stupid and it makes me sick.
squeegee replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,219
@429,214 (C)
I dunno. Well, it's like the pic in the OP doesn't make any sense, you know? It's like, black teenagers are shot everyday, and they never make the news. And white teenagers getting shot is way more likely to make headlines. Especially if the circumstances were out of the ordinary. But in the instance of Travon, the black teenagerd boy getting shot did make the news specifically becuase the circumstances were out of the ordinary.
But the OP ignores the fact that for every blonde white teenaged girl who goes missing and makes the news, 23 blacks and 16 mexican girls go missing and all the get is a milk carton.
Seriously, the media doesn't give 2 shits about a shot black teenaged boy. Unless it's higly unusual.
So. I dunno... felt it needed some ellipses to get my... I dunno. Feelings across?
I dunno. Well, it's like the pic in the OP doesn't make any sense, you know? It's like, black teenagers are shot everyday, and they never make the news. And white teenagers getting shot is way more likely to make headlines. Especially if the circumstances were out of the ordinary. But in the instance of Travon, the black teenagerd boy getting shot did make the news specifically becuase the circumstances were out of the ordinary.
But the OP ignores the fact that for every blonde white teenaged girl who goes missing and makes the news, 23 blacks and 16 mexican girls go missing and all the get is a milk carton.
Seriously, the media doesn't give 2 shits about a shot black teenaged boy. Unless it's higly unusual.
So. I dunno... felt it needed some ellipses to get my... I dunno. Feelings across?
kook !!32zdfdzi+ joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 6 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,298
kook !!32zdfdzi+ double-posted this 13 years ago, 36 seconds later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,299
Op, if Zimmerman isnt white than how does that pic even make sense?
beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao replied with this 13 years ago, 24 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,306
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/17/doj-seeking-tips-in-zimmerman-probe/
What a strangely written story. I realize they don't mean trolling in the Internet sense, but the word has such a weird connotation here that... oh, never mind. Everyone on the NRA's side is a moron anyway.
DOJ trolling for email tips in Zimmerman probe
More than a year after an FBI report indicated there was no evidence of racial bias in George Zimmerman's history, the Justice Department is trolling for email tips on the former neighborhood watch volunteer as it weighs a possible federal civil rights case against him.
Amid pressure from the NAACP and several Democratic lawmakers to pursue Zimmerman, the department has circulated an email address asking for any tips or information regarding the case. The move appears to mark an expansion of the probe, after Attorney General Eric Holder said in an address Tuesday to the NAACP that his department would "consider all available information" before deciding whether to move forward. [...]
A Justice official told Fox News that both the conference call and the email address asking for tips and information are fairly standard procedure when dealing with a high-profile investigation such as this one. The department has used such tip lines in the past, including in a probe last year of the Albuquerque, N.M., police department.
Some attorneys and analysts have cautioned that Holder would have a difficult time bringing a civil rights case against Zimmerman, particularly since the investigation so far is thought to have turned up no evidence or claims that Zimmerman exhibited racial bias. Martin was black.
But other lawmakers appear to have already made up their mind.
"We do know that Mr. Martin's civil rights have been violated," Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., said, as other members of the Congressional Black Caucus voiced similar views.
Holder has meanwhile gone beyond pursuing the investigation in the wake of the acquittal. On Tuesday, he also criticized "stand-your-ground" laws, which allow individuals to use lethal force when they believe their lives are in danger -- even if they have the option of fleeing.
The NRA criticized Holder for the comments, saying self-defense is a "fundamental human right."
Holder also, in his address to the NAACP, recounted his own past experiences with racial profiling.
Amid pressure from the NAACP and several Democratic lawmakers to pursue Zimmerman, the department has circulated an email address asking for any tips or information regarding the case. The move appears to mark an expansion of the probe, after Attorney General Eric Holder said in an address Tuesday to the NAACP that his department would "consider all available information" before deciding whether to move forward. [...]
A Justice official told Fox News that both the conference call and the email address asking for tips and information are fairly standard procedure when dealing with a high-profile investigation such as this one. The department has used such tip lines in the past, including in a probe last year of the Albuquerque, N.M., police department.
Some attorneys and analysts have cautioned that Holder would have a difficult time bringing a civil rights case against Zimmerman, particularly since the investigation so far is thought to have turned up no evidence or claims that Zimmerman exhibited racial bias. Martin was black.
But other lawmakers appear to have already made up their mind.
"We do know that Mr. Martin's civil rights have been violated," Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., said, as other members of the Congressional Black Caucus voiced similar views.
Holder has meanwhile gone beyond pursuing the investigation in the wake of the acquittal. On Tuesday, he also criticized "stand-your-ground" laws, which allow individuals to use lethal force when they believe their lives are in danger -- even if they have the option of fleeing.
The NRA criticized Holder for the comments, saying self-defense is a "fundamental human right."
Holder also, in his address to the NAACP, recounted his own past experiences with racial profiling.
What a strangely written story. I realize they don't mean trolling in the Internet sense, but the word has such a weird connotation here that... oh, never mind. Everyone on the NRA's side is a moron anyway.
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Anonymous C replied with this 13 years ago, 12 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,312
HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,315
@429,306 (beckyderp !8ElfFaoFao)
They're trying to get Zimmerman anyway they can. Pretty soon he'll find himself with an IRS audit.
They're trying to get Zimmerman anyway they can. Pretty soon he'll find himself with an IRS audit.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 19 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,328
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Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #429,382
@OP
> “On the one hand, they were two young men who were minding their own business when it occurred,” Darby said, according to the Charleston City Paper. “On the other hand, I think the problem in the Trayvon case is that the aftermath was different. In the case of Marley Lion, there was an immediate search for the killer, fairly rapid apprehension, rapid action. With Trayvon Martin ... the police were aware of the killing, but there was no charge until there was national pressure. I think the reason the Trayvon Martin case made national news was the level of inaction in Florida.”
> “On the one hand, they were two young men who were minding their own business when it occurred,” Darby said, according to the Charleston City Paper. “On the other hand, I think the problem in the Trayvon case is that the aftermath was different. In the case of Marley Lion, there was an immediate search for the killer, fairly rapid apprehension, rapid action. With Trayvon Martin ... the police were aware of the killing, but there was no charge until there was national pressure. I think the reason the Trayvon Martin case made national news was the level of inaction in Florida.”