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Old 01-03-2019, 04:10 PM
 
Location: Free From The Oppressive State
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I dislike vigilantes of all kinds, no matter who they're going after.

And that news report was pretty balanced. There was no sympathy granted to anyone.


Not quite the same thing, and you know it.
BS. Cue the violin:

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Malcolm was tall and handsome. The oldest son of Jamaican immigrants, he wholly subscribed to the idea of the American dream. In high school, Malcolm was vice president of the Future Business Leaders of America club, assistant captain of the tennis and swim teams and a member of the student council and Model United Nations. He started a social marketing business at 15.

After graduating in 2016, Malcolm filled his Instagram and Facebook feeds with photos of New York high-rises, bathroom selfies in three-piece suits and links to news articles in which he was featured. He went to community college while working as a junior buyer for a local circuit-board manufacturer and was the subject of a Connecticut Public Television series that profiled recent high school graduates. Earlier this year, he was named one of Litchfield County’s 40 Leaders Under 40.
Not one bit of that has a thing to do with the fact that he went there to meet what he thought was going to be an underaged boy. Notice NBC News didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about THAT fact.
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Old 01-03-2019, 04:24 PM
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An article from NBC portraying pedophiles in a good light...shaming those that would expose sorry animals that prey on children.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...ow-one-n953856


You are wrong the article is about vigilante groups and their tactics pedophilia isn't the focus. I don't agree with their tactics they aren't trained and there is no oversight on them, their operations look thuggish to me.
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Old 01-03-2019, 05:12 PM
 
Location: Huntsville, AL
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You are wrong the article is about vigilante groups and their tactics pedophilia isn't the focus. I don't agree with their tactics they aren't trained and there is no oversight on them, their operations look thuggish to me.
No, I am not wrong. The article is indeed about a particular non-violent vigilante group that exposes low life animals that would rape and molest and maybe murder children. My post was how NBC News painted these animals in a sympathetic light...and they damn well did.

Thankfully, the gay, handsome scholar/athlete has long since reached room temperature and THAT particular animal will never rape a child. All’s well that ends well!
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Old 01-03-2019, 05:15 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Hell yes vigilante groups are a far better solution. Justice clearly did not prevail there.

You truly support mob justice over judge and jury?



That's what the article tries to address. Not this misleading thread title.
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Old 01-04-2019, 12:33 AM
 
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BS. Cue the violin:



Not one bit of that has a thing to do with the fact that he went there to meet what he thought was going to be an underaged boy. Notice NBC News didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about THAT fact.
I think the fact that he was gay, (or bisexual? Not sure), had a lot to do the media not talking about it much, painting him in a negative light is a slippery slope.


Ive seen the story, not really sure what the concern is about, every other news piece they do on a criminal, they usually always give some kind of history of the person, it just so happened with this particular guy, he had a pretty impressive list of accomplishments, but that doesnt change the fact that he committed the crime, I doubt many people interpreted it in that way honestly.
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Old 01-04-2019, 08:05 AM
 
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Key words: ALLEGED. And VIGILANTE. You can't go vigilante on people who are alleged to be criminals.
Why not? Leftist groups and Democrats do it daily and it's applauded.
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Old 01-04-2019, 08:07 AM
 
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BS. Cue the violin:



Not one bit of that has a thing to do with the fact that he went there to meet what he thought was going to be an underaged boy. Notice NBC News didn't spend a whole lot of time talking about THAT fact.
SJW's and virtue signalers can't recognize when those things are happening right in front of their eyes since they see that stuff as normal everyday life.
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Old 01-04-2019, 10:11 AM
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No, I am not wrong. The article is indeed about a particular non-violent vigilante group that exposes low life animals that would rape and molest and maybe murder children. My post was how NBC News painted these animals in a sympathetic light...and they damn well did.

Thankfully, the gay, handsome scholar/athlete has long since reached room temperature and THAT particular animal will never rape a child. All’s well that ends well!
They can be both a sexually deviant predator as well as an athlete/scholar particularly the one's that tend to blend in. All of those qualities can exist in one person.
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Old 01-04-2019, 10:18 AM
 
Location: Huntsville, AL
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They can be both a sexually deviant predator as well as an athlete/scholar particularly the one's that tend to blend in. All of those qualities can exist in one person.

Good grief! Who's arguing that point? No one, that's who.
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Old 01-04-2019, 10:47 AM
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Good grief! Who's arguing that point? No one, that's who.

How specifically did they paint him in a sympathetic light? What I'm most curious about is why some pedophiles sexually offend while other's don't. Simply labeling them all as Animals that need to die and expressing satisfaction that one died solves nothing and is juvenile. Looking at pedophiles in general in a more nuanced way isn't showing sympathy it's being intelligent.
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