Posted on 08/23/2013 5:02:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Conservative media's total fixation on black-on-black and black-on-white crime isn't going to end. Here's why...
There are a few black people up to no good in this country and Fox News is on it! So is Drudge Report. Vigilantly on the lookout, 24 hours a day, for stories about black youths behaving badly.
This isn’t a particularly new phenomenon, but it’s intensified noticeably in the past year for at least two reasons. Conservatives, particularly white conservatives, feel a burning urgency to find a racial counterweight to the aftermath of Trayvon Martin’s shooting (including President Obama’s public comments about the incident), a logical response to the argument that things like background checks and an assault weapons ban are appropriate ways to reduce the likelihood of another Sandy Hook-style massacre, and anecdotal justifications for indiscriminate policing of dangerous neighborhoods.
But these are hopeless pursuits. The incidents they draw attention to fail by definition to underscore the things they believe. They all require projecting motives or details or both into tragic events, to create false dichotomies between shootings perpetrated by whites and blacks. They have the unhealthy effect of creating dueling tallies of white-on-black and black-on-white crime. And ironically they all tend to underscore the argument that more “stand your ground” laws and more racial profiling are off-point responses to these incidents....
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
He didn’t want a conversation, he wanted to lecture us.
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when the number of incidences reaches critical mass, people are going to notice.
Beutler needs a ton of ridicule. He’s earned it.
Upon reading Beutler's account of his own shooting, one word immediately popped into my mind: Denial.
Oh, and are such stories hard to find?
Reporter types often can't do math... they're the types who say things like, "I never use math, don't know why it's required'... Really. If this dude could do math he'd understand - there's a BIG problem with black male violence.
Of course, tonight in some confab of talking-heads, psychobabble-drenched analysis somewhere or other that I had tuned to I think I started to glimpse the next attempt at justifying the white on black violence even though imagined heavy coverage to the exclusion of black on white violence no matter how common that the left so enjoys - precisely because black on white violence happens so frequently, it isn’t “news” anymore, but white on black violence, now there’s real novelty, worth wall to wall coverage - it’s as good as anything else they’ve come up with.....
Good point.
White-on-black violence is the journalistic equivalent of "Man Bites Dog".
Get a VPN.
93% of violent crimes committed against blacks are committed by those who vote Democrat.
The Left only cares about their religion, that being the acquisition of power... nothing else.
Have been researching that today.
VPN or Proxy Server.
It may be the solution for my problem.
Let's examine this low-IQ doofus' definition of "obsession..." by asking a really simple question :
What is more hateful, reprehensible and deserving of instant execution? Noticing that "young" blacks commit monumentally greater proportional numbers of senseless murders?
Or actually committing them?
And ironically they all tend to underscore the argument that more “stand your ground” laws and more racial profiling are off-point responses to these incidents....
"Stand your ground" played no role whatsoever in the Zimmerman trial, except in his tiny mind. Keep flogging that imaginary off-point dead horse, moron!
Wow, a liberal who has been seriously mugged, and is still a liberal?
Completely untrainable, unable to learn from experience, is the only concussion to be made.
Usually that results in comments getting turned off and the existing ones zapped/hidden, in Leftist run publications.
He’s twisting himself into pretzels apologizing for his assailants.
I feel dumber for having read a number of the Leftist “arguments” there. They boil down to Racist! And other name calling.
Black on white crime is not news.
That’s reported every single day. It’s just now people are finally catching on.
Guy ignores that all the crime is real and pushes it to that “happy place” in his mind that says it’s all racism of one sort or another...
Joni Mitchell saw through some of the liberal bullstalin. Didn’t the guy from “The Hurricane” assault some woman almost immediately after getting released from prison. That was one case that really got her goat.
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