(January 6, 2017 at 12:14 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: So someone posts a news story about a disabled man being kidnapped, tortured and beat up while being shouted racial slurs, and you automatically assume the reason someone posted about it is to equate white people persecution with minority persecution? Isn't this a tragedy and hence newsworthy regardless?
Would the same people have posted it if it was 4 white men and women torturing and kidnapping a black kid? My experience with all of them says, "no."
(January 6, 2017 at 12:14 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Why are some people having such a hard time coming in here and just saying "Wow, that was horrible. That poor man. Yes, racist hate crime indeed." Isn't that what you would say in any other scenario that didn't involve a white person being the victim of people of color? Instead you come in here and reprimand the person for posting the story.
Who's reprimanding anyone? I'm just calling this for what it is. A thread started to make a political point, not to acknowledge the horror. Napo hasn't started a single thread in the last few months that wasn't politically motivated. If you can't see that this one was, too, I hate to say it, but you're a bit naive, dear.
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