(October 7, 2017 at 4:47 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(October 7, 2017 at 1:43 pm)FFaith Wrote: I'm a moron because I take into account that this could have possibly been a fake hate crime?
No, you're a moron because you state that there's a "good chance" it was fake based on a baseless assumption that you can ascertain a writer's race by writing alone.
(October 7, 2017 at 1:43 pm)FFaith Wrote: You're being emotional rather than rational if you're not willing to see that as a possibility. Like I said, I have no idea what race the author of the letter is, but when I first read it, my first thought was that it sounds a lot like a black person, and you can try to make me look like a bad guy for sharing my first reaction to reading the letter, but blacks often say "You can tell a black person wrote this... or said this", so me doing something similar is no worse. Blacks do it to themselves all the time, so what exactly is the issue here that I'm missing?
You're missing the fact that blacks do not do that all the time. I'm not arguing emotionally, because unlike you, I'm not importing my personal assumptions in positing silly extenuating circumstances.
Nor am I trying to make you look like a bad guy; you're doing well enough there on your own.
(October 7, 2017 at 1:43 pm)FFaith Wrote: I even ended my post with "who knows?", showing that I was taking my own initial feelings with a grain of salt and that I know no more about who wrote the letter than anyone else does right now.
What that tells me is that you're willing to go off half-cocked, talking of "good chances", making baseless assumptions about a writer's race based on grammar. And that marks you as a moron.
Ok, maybe I should have said decent chance rather than good chance. I didn't mean to make it sound like I think it's 50/50 or anything like that. It wasn't just the grammar either. It was that combined with the ridiculousness of the letter. The OP asked us to speculate and that's what I did. She thinks it may have been a poe, and I agreed because the letter is so ridiculous. Elsewhere in the thread, the letter has been called a prank and obvious trolling. If it really is a poe, I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that there's a decent chance that maybe the poe was doing it to make a certain group look bad. That's certainly not an unreasonable thought. Maybe it's an ex-boyfriend or friend that is trying to hurt the black woman at the daycare center like Catholic_Lady think's it could be, or maybe it was just someone having a laugh. Maybe our speculation is way off and the letter is indeed genuine and the author meant those things.
