(March 12, 2023 at 2:15 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:(March 12, 2023 at 1:05 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I'd like to request that the serious tag be removed from this thread. There doesn't appear to be a legitimate need for a thread discussing news items of random focus and seriousness to be protected or administered differently from an unmoderated thread. Particularly if people are going to use it for posting what are essentially personal attacks and ad hominems based upon straw men when challenged with an alternative interpretation of events. Failing that, IA may deserve a thread ban for the thinly veiled personal attacks even after having been reminded of the serious tag.
What personal attacks? Children were assaulted on camera, and Tomato is asking what they did to deserve it, without any reason to believe they did anything at all based on the information we have. How is that any different from blaming a woman for her own rape?
For one thing, we know women get raped with zero provocation on their part all the fucking time.
However, something like white kids being attacked by black kids out of the blue and just being forced to swear allegiance to BLM is a strange event that demands more context. Especially when given sources like the Washington Examiner (a right-wing rag) and Andy Ngo (a less than credible journalist,) things start to get suspicious. This isn't helped by the fact that many of us have seen implausible stories of black-on-white crime (or cases of white people being persecuted for something that seems benign that actually isn't) that seem specifically designed to either radicalise people Dylann Roof-style or to pander to the prejudices of the already radicalised.
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