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In reply to the discussion: George Zimmerman got punched in the face. Dylann Roof Got his ass kicked in lockup. So what?!? [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)You complain that it's hypocritical that you believe other people don't care about prison violence unless it's happening to a white guy, but you apparently only care if it's happening to a black guy based on how this post reads.
Maybe you haven't been paying attention, but anytime somebody makes a prison rape joke, they are routinely chastised because prison violence isn't a good thing. Nobody stops to ask, were they joking about a black victim because that would be fine. Insinuating that people here don't care about prison violence if it happens to black people is absurd. The available evidence is that prison violence is looked down on.
Yeah Dylann Roof committed a monstrous act, but inflicting mob violence on him won't bring the people he killed back. It won't make him change his beliefs. You can't beat racism out of somebody any more than you could beat sexism or being homophobic out of somebody. But you can put people in a position to learn a better way. Saying it's okay to beat him because you think it's justified due to his actions, but not in this other instance which arbitrarily doesn't meet your standards is just arguing over where the line is, it still accepts the premise that violence itself is an effective answer. Is the line drawn at if Roof had only killed 5 people? Is the line drawn if Roof had killed a racially diverse set of people?