If her “lie” is only to call the murder a lynching, we should let it rest. Lynching itself is a term which came from an actual Mr. Lynch who presided over kangaroo courts. Isn’t it cool how English lets nouns be verbed?
Agree. Nitpicking such as this only makes our side look bad.
There are battles to fight.....this is not one of them.
I agree, I think quibbling over words in this case makes us look bad. It was perhaps not a mob lynching (by any means - hanging was not the only one, although it was common) but instead serious police brutality based on the fact that this man was black and one of the sheriffs apparently didn’t like him. But it certainly qualifies as a race-based killing that went unpunished, and I don’t think we should argue over the word.
The article is actually good, showing the racist background of some of the left’s great heros and the fact that they have always used race to manipulate, in one direction or they other, but the author’s point gets lost because he’s trying for a “gotcha” moment against Sherrod.