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The 'Knockout Game' Is Terrible But Almost Certainly Overhyped

Business Insider?!

Now there's a reputable news source.

This isn’t new and it’s not overhyped...

"...Thankfully, however, there isn't much evidence it's a trend at all or that there is any racial undertone. Over at Slate, Emma Roller makes a convincing argument that similar incidents have occurred for years, and that recent coverage of the stories seems to be driven more by racial outrage than the events themselves. She contrasts the way the crimes are covered with the coverage of other crimes. "[It's] ridiculous to assume that a few unrelated counts of arson make arson an epidemic," Roller writes. "But when you inject race into the equation, it conveniently aligns with the assumptions of people who happen to be racist..."

Well, that's a relief. That "almost certainly" makes anyone who observes that this is a predominately black on white type of crime a racist.

Look at all the stories and video you see out there describing the black on white modus operandi of this game, but oddly enough, you rarely (never) see a white on black version.

We know this because if there were cases of whites doing this to blacks, they would merit national attention talking about the "real" race problem in this country, which would be a man bites dog problem.

"...Thankfully, however, there isn't much evidence it's a trend at all or that there is any racial undertone. Over at Slate, Emma Roller makes a convincing argument that similar incidents have occurred for years, and that recent coverage of the stories seems to be driven more by racial outrage than the events themselves. She contrasts the way the crimes are covered with the coverage of other crimes. "[It's] ridiculous to assume that a few unrelated counts of arson make arson an epidemic," Roller writes. "But when you inject race into the equation, it conveniently aligns with the assumptions of people who happen to be racist..."

Well, that's a relief. That "almost certainly" makes anyone who observes that this is a predominately black on white type of crime a racist.

Look at all the stories and video you see out there describing the black on white modus operandi of this game, but oddly enough, you rarely (never) see a white on black version.

We know this because if there were cases of whites doing this to blacks, they would merit national attention talking about the "real" race problem in this country, which would be a man bites dog problem.

It was fascinating to do some web searches. I did one on violence in Virginia Beach, and the paper The Virginian-Pilot which is notoriously liberal, was actively scrubbing the comment section of their story, not to mention the actual content. It would have been hilarious if it had not been so serious.

In the same one one can "see" a black hole by the absence of light, reading the scrubbed comments left no doubt about the race of the violent perpetrators.

As the list of comments got longer and longer, the linguistic gyrations people were going through to make their point without actually saying the word "Black" (which would have got their comment pulled) became so extreme that it was impossible to ignore the silliness of the situation.

In a different but related case, two reporters from the same Virginian-Pilot were assaulted by a large crowd of black youths: Two White Reporters Assaulted by Black Mob in Norfolk, VA

There was no story in the paper about it, and only an opinion column several weeks later. The opinion piece in the Virginian-Pilot was apparently written by a subordinate of one of the people attacked. This is an interesting excerpt from the blog discussing the situation (and the opinion piece): "...This is a remarkable document. Two white liberal reporters are wilded by a huge black mob. Their paper doesn’t report it until two weeks later, and then only in a column, not a news article. Their colleague (and presumed superior) reluctantly comes out with the fact that it was blacks who did it, and indicates that this bothers her. She suggests, however weakly, that there is something wrong with the blacks who did this (“We cannot allow such callousness to continue unremarked”), and that the event is not just an isolated incident but part of a larger phenomenon that must be identified (“How can we change it if we don’t know about it?”). This is the first time I remember seeing a liberal or mainstream publication say this. Yes, some liberal media have from time to time described incidents of black-on-white violence as such, but none that I have seen have ever suggested that the media’s cover-up is itself a problem and must end..."

They are so blinded by their own political correctness they could be victims and still want to conceal it.

Liberalism is truly a mental disease.

I thought this was an interesting comment at the end of the blog piece:

"...Normal people, i.e., non-liberals, can read about a phenomenon such as black-on-white violence and understand it. I personally have never been physically attacked by blacks. No one close to me has been physically attacked by blacks.* I understood the reality and the nature of the phenomenon simply from reading news stories about it. But liberals cannot grasp a fact that goes against liberalism by simply reading about it. They can only grasp it, and only partially and weakly at that, if it directly affects them or their relatives, friends, or colleagues. To paraphrase Nietzsche, only real suffering can bring the white race out of its present death state. I don’t call it a sleep state, I call it a death state..."

I have been attacked and beaten by a group of black men on, of all places, a US Navy base in Florida back in the Seventies. It was clearly racial, and I was simply a white guy with glasses walking alone between some barracks. It never became something that poisoned me, and one of the main reasons is because the Petty Officer who was my supervisor offered to get a bunch of guys together and hunt them down.

He was black.

As I said before, to say all black men do this type of thing would be racist. But it is NOT racist to observe that the vast majority of these types of assaults are perpetrated by young black men against whites.