Posted on 11/05/2017 6:25:19 AM PST by Kaslin
“What a nice Halloween,” my wife remarked as we turned out the lights last Tuesday night.
Well, not so much in nearby Oakton, Virginia, where Jamie Stevenson, a new homeowner, walked past her neighbor’s house and saw “a racist display.”
“She knew it was a Halloween decoration,” the Washington Post reported, “but she also saw in it something more sinister: a lynching.”
Stevenson snapped a picture and then contacted the homeowners’ association and the friendly hate merchants at the Southern Poverty Law Center. But she didn’t forget about the perpetrator. “What you appear to be displaying is an effigy of a black person being lynched,” she emailed him. “As your neighbor and a person of color [Stevenson is Asian], I find this racist. I find this deeply offensive. I’m sure this is not your intent.”
She asked them to “remove this racially-loaded effigy . . . for the good of the neighborhood.”
“It is not my intent to offend anyone,” was her neighbor’s immediate and predictable response to her email. “I never realized the Monster in the tree had darker skin. If you see it up close it is indeed a Monster with blood clawed head and face.”
Explaining that he is “frantically preparing for Halloween,” her neighbor offered, “I can’t promise I will have it down by Halloween but I can promise you this — I will NEVER ever put it up again.”
But then, the next day, last Sunday, he did manage to take it down . . . in the rain.
All is well that ends well, eh?
Not on your life.
One might think that, with Stevenson’s sensitivity, she wouldn’t perform her own social media lynching — or “doxing”— against her neighbor. But the next day, having acknowledged that no offense had been intended and with the offending display having been removed, Stevenson still posted “a flier” on Facebook with a photo of an actual 1889 lynching next to the picture she had taken of her neighbor’s Halloween display, declaring: “RACISM and HATE have no place in our neighborhood.”
She further called for a boycott of her neighbor’s free Halloween candy . . . and handily provided his home address.
That’s the “doxing” part. I am sure in the days of low-tech lynching you could always find a special someone in the neighborhood willing to give directions to the main event.
This led to a knock on Stevenson’s door and an attempt to talk face to face, which ended with Stevenson filing a police report, saying she felt threatened. No charges have been filed, nor arrests made, however.
Stevenson “acknowledged,” notes the Post, “that in recent conversations with her neighbors, many rejected her interpretation of it.”
“We never looked at it that way,” said neighbor Leisa Branton, who has been admiring the holiday display for 20 years now. “I mean, maybe it’s our ignorance, but we thought it was ghouls and goblins.”
Branton also felt bad for the family, which had been publicly attacked after having “put a lot of decorations up and a lot of time into it.”
“[W]hen you point out racism, people have a choice to make,” Stevenson insisted. “They either acknowledge it and have to do something about it, or they deny it and are complicit in it.”
Or then again, neighbor, maybe you’ve got racism on the noggin, smearing people with outrageous slanders — good folks, who are only complicit in sharing a traditional joy with the neighborhood kids.
“The Halloween display began as an activity they did with their own children and grew as they saw how much other young people in the neighborhood enjoyed it,” explained the Post.
Now, after being publicly labeled a racist last week, Stevenson’s neighbor expressed “fear for the safety of my kids and the safety of my house.”
The average cost of a home in that Oakton neighborhood? $750,000.
The value of a good neighbor? Priceless.
If I lived in that “neighborhood,” I would make it a point to ensure that the Stevenson’s house was regularly egged, TPed, and that flaming bags of dog poop showed up on their front porch until they moved out.
But that’s just me.
Morris Deas head of the SPLC used to defend KKK members. When he realized they didn’t pay well, he cashed in on the other side.
He’s also a sexual pervert. Makes Weinstein seem like a good guy.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and those looking for racist intent need to look in a mirror because THEY are the racist agitators trying to hate on other people.
ALL people are “of color”, even albinos.
Insanity is seeing things that are not there, not perceiving things as they are in reality, loss of contact with reality, allowing one’s imagination to cloud one’s reason.
Okay, see, there was his mistake. Never back down from a bully like this b****. Never. That just emboldens them. The correct response was to ignore her, and if she doxxed them after that, a lawsuit should follow. Never give an inch.
The perpetually offended must be offended, it is part of the cult.
My response would have gone something like this:
Dearest Snowflake Neigbor,
Kindly go **** yourself.
Happy Halloween,
L
IMO, those who see racism wherever they look despise their own race.
I read a WaPo article about this and they had a different photo of the yard. Apparently the owner of the display thought the character’s face looked bloodstained and messed up, and maybe it was the passage of time, but the character’s face did look very dark-skinned, and it was definitely hanged by its neck, so I can see why someone would think it looked like a lynching.
But the reactions of the offended woman are over the top.
The neighbor responded that it wasn’t intended to offend anyone and that the “gore” is typical for them each year. “The kids seem to love it.”
“I never realized the Monster in the tree had darker skin. If you see it up close it is indeed a Monster with a blood clawed head and face,” the email also said.
Case closed.
Here, This should keep you occupied and out of my business.
“It is not my intent to offend anyone...” “I can’t promise I will have it down by Halloween but I can promise you this — I will NEVER ever put it up again.”
NO! NOT ONE DAMN INCH! It wasn't manufactured to be racist, you didn't buy it to be racist, and you didn't put it up to be racist. It stays! You're right and Stevenson is wrong!
Because what was the thanks you got? You were "doxxed" and libeled and slandered anyway!
Here's his neighbor: “I mean, maybe it’s our ignorance, but we thought it was ghouls and goblins.”
NO! NOT ONE DAMN INCH! You're not "ignorant"! Stevenson is a totalitarian!
Because what is the thanks people like you get for living your life? Stevenson will tell you: "They either acknowledge it and have to do something about it, or they deny it and are complicit in it." So much for just having a house on the same street -- now you're either a racist as well, or you "have to do something about it". Here's your brown shirt!
NOT ONE DAMN INCH!
Stevenson stated that when racism is involved you can either acquiesce to the accuser or you can be complicit in the racism... there is a third choice and that is to reject the premise entirely...laugh in their face...
Note to self,
Next year make sure that all hangings represent the entire spectrum of humanity so as not to offend anyone.
If I forget to include anyone or anything please feel free to let me know and I’ll hang that, giving you the entire credit, of course.
Jamie Stevenson sounds like a libtard loon who drank the whole bowl of Kool-Aid. Anyone ask WHY she “recently moved to the neighborhood”? Maybe she pulled the same garbage in her old neighborhood and was encouraged to leave. What a miserable soul she is, trying to make trouble for her neighbors trying to have a little innocent fun. If you don’t like their decorations, look away. Don’t call the authorities on them, you of the wizened soul!
Bingo
Given it’s location, I bet it is a community of mostly libs. Once you go down the path of controlling, it never stops. That is what libs don’t see. There is always someone who desires to virtue signal and play the victim making life miserable for others. There is never a line. They are the bullies and can’t see it.
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