Wypipo Held a Protest for White Teacher Who Slapped, Kicked and Pulled Locs of Sleeping Student

[EffieBlack]

63. Two different issues, but you keep taking the same approach

Always struggling to defend indefensible treatment of minorities, always giving the benefit of the doubt to the person causing harm while looking for excuses to explain their bad behavior.

Here, you see a white teacher physically mock and taunt a black student - and when people express outrage, you jump in to conjure up excuses for the teacher because you haven't seen or heard a black person call it a racist incident. And, I have no doubt that if someone did, you'd ignore them or say they were wrong, just as you did in the Starbucks case, where plenty of people involved, black and white, said it was a case of racial discrimination and false arrest.

In the Starbucks case, we didn't have a "difference of opinion about the application of the law to a particular set of facts." You consistently misstated the law itself, claiming that the law permitted police to make a trespass arrest solely on the manager's accusation - even if the accusation was obviously based on racial bias - and that the affirmative defense to trespass was irrelevant to the matter, when in fact, the settled law in Pennsylvania is exactly opposite and the fact that the police ONLY relied on the manager's claim without considering the affirmative defense made the arrest illegal. We didn't disagree about the law's application to the facts - you consistently insisted that the law allowed something it does not.

Of course, DU isn't a court of law and we don't have to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt or launch a full investigation into every matter before forming an opinion. But one can't help but notice that your opinion usually tends to come down on the side of the person engaging in the apparently racist act against the person being victimized by it.