51. "RE: Right" In response to In response to 50 Mon Jan-21-19 07:37 PM by Mynoriti
>I dont believe that's true for eveyone defending them, but >certainly many...including many of the ppl ive spoken with >online in the past day. There's a lot of decent fairminded ppl >in the world, but there's also a whole lot of folks who apply >completely different standards depending on if its their >"tribe" (ie white kids) vs an outside group (black kids). Like >asking an NRA open-carry activist to imagine 20 young black >dudes walking into your local coffee shop brandishing guns.
I'll walk this back (slightly) because I'm not saying you're in that camp. It's more about the people who are going the hardest like the ones who are now ridiculously trying to flip this story into the elderly man being the aggressor, but are quick to believe Trayvon probably deserved to die because "he was no angel". but I do think as you said even among people who liken themselves fair minded and kind people, everyone has blind spots and may not realize when they're defending these kids, they wouldn't be as quick to empathize had they been a darker shade.
>And it must be reiterated that some of the targets have been >random ppl who were misidentified.
fair point, and concern. not only is it primarily terrible for the person targeted, but there's not much more that excites the Tucker Carlson crowd than stories like that.
>>I caught a really good documentary on Netflix last month >>called White Right, made by a muslim woman who spent months
>>think i heard a podcast where the msker of this was being >interviewed. It did pique my curiosity.
Not sure if it was Sam Harris' podcast but that interview makes for a good companion piece since she gets deep into all the scary and dangerous things she went through that don't make it into the documentary, because it wasn't filmed.