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lil  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The mental gymnastics of excusing white men's violence

Hubski, read this article. I'd like to know your thoughts.

    A New York Times piece described Brown, who was stopped for jaywalking before being shot and killed by officer Darren Wilson, as “no angel.” After officer Tim Loehmann shot and killed Rice at the park gazebo where Rice was playing with a replica gun, the Cleveland Plain Dealer hurried to run a story about Rice’s parents’ criminal records, apparently desperate to associate the boy with criminality any way it could.

    Surely these people must have done something to invite their deaths at the hands of law enforcement?

    Meanwhile, a white Christian man plans and executes a terrorist attack in Texas’ capital and he’s just a nice guy who lost his way, a Renaissance Faire enthusiast in a tricorn hat who enjoyed tubing and trying to blow up government buildings.