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In reply to the discussion: (White) Man Beaten By Mob, In Critical Condition "Justice for Trayvon" [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)And my command of it is pretty good.
Here is the post, for people who do not bother to click 'show', and for refreshment of your recollection:
"Funny how defensive you are about these threads.
On two of them now, where a white person is allegedly the victim of a racially-motivated crime, you've sprained everything in your body to jump in and start deflecting, hijacking, calling out posters, etc. Why is it you can't accept that there has been some backlash with the Martin killing and that some dumb people have taken it upon themselves to act on violent impulses? Is that just a white trait to you?"
The poster is clearly claiming it is my belief that only white people behave in a certain, morally deficient way. That is accusing me of holding a racist view of white people.
The poster's reference to previous comments of mine is as bogus as the rest. There was one incident some weeks back, bruited about as blacks attacking a white in vengeance for Mr. Martin. People who bothered to click through the link and read the story learned that the group of youths who beat the person up were equally mixed between black and white, and that the person attacked had brought up the subject of Mr. Martin near the commencement of the attack, saying something like 'remember Trayyvon' evidently in an appeal to them not to harm him for no reason. It is hardly 'spraining everything in your body' to lay out the facts of an incident as recounted in a newspaper article.
One other incident comes to mind, of a casual robbery in Chicago near Oak Park, a thing so trivial and routine it easily slips the mind. A poster cited an imflammatory 'Tea Party Report' in the Washington Times for his account of the matter, which spent paragraph after paragraph denouncing calls for the arrest of Zimmerman and accusing everyone from President Obama to the dog next door of creating race hate, where of course in 'Tea Party' eyes none exists at all, except for evil civil rights agitators. A perfectly straightforward local account of the thing, without all the Sturm und Drange was readily available. The assailant here did say it was 'payback for Trayyvon', but the charge sheet and high bail make it clear he is a repeat offender; only a very small proportion of arrestees receive bonds that actually will confine them in County jail, owing to serious over-crowding, and the working criterion is not severity of charge but likelihood of offending again before trial.
My comments in this thread pointed out that the O.P. matches a 'profile' that has always been considered very suspicious to moderators and administrators here, and probably is to the inheriting M.I.R.T. people as well. It is true enough that I mis-read, in the late night hour, one word of this account, and so provided some low humor to a few people. But it remains a fact that the account at the head of this thread is both embellished and lacking important detail, and slanted to a degree that cannot fail to be intentional towards presenting a distorted picture of the event.