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Robservations: WGN reporter ‘furious’ over image of noose
Robert Feder ^ | 07/24/2019 | Robert Feder

Posted on 07/26/2019 10:41:13 AM PDT by jaydubya2

Robservations on the media beat:

Courtney Gousman

Is this a racist image? The depiction of a noose over an automobile’s gas tank cover prompted a reporter for Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 to say it made her “sick to my stomach.” “Saw this on the way home from work and it made me furious, afraid, and sick to my stomach,” Courtney Gousman wrote on Twitter and Facebook Sunday. “Given the history of the noose and how it was used to murder black Americans, this image speaks volumes — no matter how it’s explained away because it’s plastered on a gas tank. #wideawake.” When a white reader suggested Gousman was “just looking for a reason to be mad,” she replied: “The depiction of a noose was clear enough — gas pump or not. There are plenty of other symbols that could have accomplished this besides this hateful reminder.”


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To: jaydubya2
This web site is a pictorial history of lynching in America - not all of them are negroes.
https://withoutsanctuary.org/
Warning: Graphic
41 posted on 07/26/2019 12:07:15 PM PDT by dainbramaged (My dog can drive a stick shift and the cat is jealous.)
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To: amihow

Uh, when and how?
_________

Spanish Inquisition for a start. When the Spanish conquered the new world.


42 posted on 07/26/2019 12:10:54 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! Now)
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To: jaydubya2

Actually, it was hippies.
We hung hippies but, we did not use a gas hose.
They were white.
Selling drugs to our kids.
(Quote by a very old and gone friend of mine.)


43 posted on 07/26/2019 12:11:13 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: jaydubya2

“Saw this on the way home from work and it made me furious, afraid, and sick to my stomach,” “

Yeah.....sure it did.

Nevermind the dozens of pe OP please likely to be killed this weekend in Chi-molia, but this.

So sick was she, that she had time to pull out her smartphone, snap a photo, open up her bobblehead social attention whore app of choice, compose a BS screed of agony, make sure the hashtags were “on point”, and then post it.....likely while driving.


44 posted on 07/26/2019 12:18:28 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: jaydubya2

What does that imagery even mean? Truck owner into drugs?


45 posted on 07/26/2019 12:18:54 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: jaydubya2

I saw variations of this way back in the early 90s in protest ad of the first Gulf War. I could have sworn one was actually in Time Magazine.

Funny how people dudnt flip out.


46 posted on 07/26/2019 12:20:19 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

And I really hate autocorrect.


47 posted on 07/26/2019 12:22:02 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: amihow

So Catholics never persecuted Protestants? I guess the Inquisitors and gentlemen like the Duke of Alba were just the Welcome Wagon?


48 posted on 07/26/2019 12:29:15 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: colorado tanker

It’s a tree hugger metaphor suggesting we are hanging ourselves via our dependence on fossil fuels. It isn’t something that lends itself to racial outrage.


49 posted on 07/26/2019 12:29:39 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Since when did Negroes get to claim all images of the noose?

About twenty years after the nazis claimed the tilted swastika and ruined it for what was, up to that time, an almost universal, and millennials old, symbol.

50 posted on 07/26/2019 12:31:20 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly planning to murder you. Have a plan to prevent that.”)
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To: IronJack
Um ... as I recall, Catholics killed their share of Protestants as well.

Nuh, uh...unless you count burning witches, boiling evil people in oil, be-headings, racking'em, and other more humane methods of slaughter, we did not do those dastardly deeds.

Christianity is covered in blood, no one was immune. Christ died on the cross, but that didn't stop us from out right slaughter of those whose beliefs were different from whomever was ruling the local patch of ground.

All in the Holy Name of God.

Today's fanatics have named their God, allah, and history continues to repeat.

Human nature and free will was infused into us by God, but we continue to abuse the greatest of gifts...choice.

51 posted on 07/26/2019 12:38:41 PM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: jaydubya2

This triggered a-hole doesn’t see the irony that she belongs to a political party/ideology that put that noose around black’s necks (along with quite a few whites BTW)?


52 posted on 07/26/2019 12:46:32 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: chris37

noose, pl noosi, subj neese, obv nice, pl perf nosi.


53 posted on 07/26/2019 1:25:07 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

This is a very, very complicated word, just as I suspected!


54 posted on 07/26/2019 1:33:15 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: chris37

Your suspicions are well founded.


55 posted on 07/26/2019 1:34:48 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: cherry

I need for Scotty to beam me up about NOW. The hypocrisy out there makes me dizzy.


56 posted on 07/26/2019 1:41:59 PM PDT by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: dirtymac

You are credible only when you quote those whose history includes The Black Legend.


57 posted on 07/26/2019 2:01:32 PM PDT by amihow
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To: USS Alaska

Exactly. It always ... confuses? enrages? disgusts? ... me when I see people killing others because they’re “doing God’s work.” I suspect that if He wanted them dead, He’s perfectly capable of doing that Himself. So whatever lie you’re telling yourself, you ain’t doing it for Him.


58 posted on 07/26/2019 2:27:46 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: Jaded

Witches should be deeply offended every time there is an open fire anywhere. Flames should be banned and anyone igniting a fire should be burned at the st...I mean, go to jail forever.


59 posted on 07/26/2019 2:34:00 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: chris37

“I’m wondering if the plural form of the word “noose” is “neese”.”

I’m thinking it may be neese’s...or is that the sausage?


60 posted on 07/26/2019 2:40:39 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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