I spent some time at DU looking at the Trayvon threads.
It’s amazing. There’s a common opinion there that once Zimmerman committed the “crime” of profiling Martin, Martin was only being reasonable by physically assaulting Zimmerman. Martin’s unavoidable black rage was unleashed by the racist cop wannabe and his obvious bigotry, and he was merely dealing out a well deserved beating to the much larger Zimmerman.
When the violent racist Zimmerman was too cowardly to manfully take his justified beating, he pulled out his gun and shot the righteously agitated and unarmed youth, probably after Martin had turned his back and had ceased to be a threat, not that he wasn’t justified in smacking Zimmerman around anyway.
The local cops pulled up and had a chuckle with their pal Zimmerman, helped him make up his phony story and it’s only because of Holder and the media riding in like the cavalry that justice might be done.
Once in awhile a poster will point out the legal or logical problems with theories like this, and then he or she gets hounded for being a racist “Zimmerman defender”.
I’m afraid there is no reasoning with those who’ve convicted Zimmerman already. Pointing out facts or points of law only makes them angry.
I hold out hope, with reservations, for justice in court, but there will be no rational reaction in the street.
Isn’t DU mainly black posters? I mean, it IS “Democrat Underground”.
let God sort ‘em out.
The tragic irony exposed by that attitude is those who think "whitey" is only getting what he deserves have completely surrendered the moral high-ground.
Yes, people of color suffered years ago merely for the color of their skin. But to hold me (or any other white man) to blame for that is intellectually dishonest--and again, it surrenders the moral high-ground.
I had nothing to do with what happened to blacks decades or even months ago. But if I'm judged not by the content of my character but instead by merely the color of my caucasian skin, then those who judge me so are just as evil as the plantation owners and the Jim Crow proponents of the South.
Which is a sad, tragic irony indeed.
Not that the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, or Obama give a rat's rear end, mind you. Race-baiters remain race-baiters. No matter how flowing their rhetoric. No matter what their station.
Always remember that the basic democrat unit is the Lynch mob.
Never use facts and logic when talking with a lib.
Any facts that get in the way of the narrative that they have chosen, will be ignored or berated.
Look at global warming, oil "depletion", seas rising, ice melting, pick any of their causes and then check out the facts...total opposites.
It would behoove the misguided folks over at DU that the rioters will make no distinction between them and Freepers.
Liberal haters are nuts - you know that, right?
“I spent some time at DU looking at the Trayvon threads.”
Did you shower afterwards?
We’re studying mass hysteria in my sophomore English class in connection with “The Crucible.” My smarter students recognized immediately that the reaction of many in the Treyvon Martin killing is a classic manifestation of mass hysteria. All of the elements are present, up to and including the persecution of innocents, such as those I’ve read about who have been attacked by black youths in “response” to Treyvon’s death. In place of the unseen demons and witches, we have the unseen white racism and privilege.
At least a few people will grow up relatively immune to this kind of insanity. Not enough, though.