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For what crime? It's pretty obvious that being racist makes a person a jerk, but not a criminal. First Amendment and all. The real crime is the fact that it looks like he made it himself.
It tells us that CNN serves up news to it's target demographics in order to boost ratings and profits.
They feel that their watchers want to hear about a guy in a hood or some white woman that dropped a n-bomb during an argument with neighbors even though no crimes were committed.
They feel that their watchers don't want that world view balanced by even the story about the KC serial killer that racially targeted older white men.
They also avoid pointing out that many of the "covid" assaults on Asians are being committed by blacks....but if they catch a white homeless woman yelling crazy at an Asian about covid...now THAT is racially palatable news.
I'd advise however that they're ALL this way although the particular biases may differ. If anyone thinks that msnbc or Fox aren't also selecting what gets shown and what does not without considering their audience and ratings you're sadly mistaken.
So he wont face criminal charges. Truly, what charges could actually be brought? I was out for a stroll yesterday and ran into a guy that had swastikas, Nazi eagles and SS lighting bolts tattooed on his arms and legs wearing shorts and a tank top proudly showing it all off.
An idiot yes. But that's not a crime. Offending someone is NOT a crime. Being an overt racist is NOT a crime. I have no clue where people get this idea that someone can be criminally charged for displaying racist symbols.
But it seems that only certain symbols rate criminal treatment. If those symbols offend certain groups. Other stuff that's just as offensive is OK.
It's fine to display an Imperial Japanese rising sun, (one I find personally offensive) to blast "kill Whitey" music in a parking lot, even to publically advocate for violence against LE, political groups (at least non leftist ones) stuff that's every bit as offensive as a Klan Klown hood or Nazi bilge.
But the latter two things draw advocacy fir criminal charges. U Derek "hate crime" statutes I'm assuming. I thought a "hate crime" needed some sort of violent or otherwise actual crimi al act like vandalism or arson to actually draw criminal charges and prosecution.
Yet now it is being suggested that merely offending people is a crime. Oh my, but this has gotten out of hand. There was a thread a while back on a hangman's noose that had been braided into a rope I believe in Home Depot.
The resultant furor was just incredible. Police investigating it, people having apoplectic fits at the sight of it. Why were the police involved? What "crime" had been committed?
Wow. America has gotten to be a weird place.
I agree. I'm pretty darn liberal but I will defend the right for people to have idiotic beliefs until my dying day. It's not OK to behave violently toward those whom you dislike, but the thought police should be reserved for science fiction novels.
I first saw that video as part of a larger creation discussing the mask mandate some jurisdictions are instituting. I laughed HARD when I saw it. It's hilarious. "You're going to force me to wear a mask? Ok." LOL
The sentiment and history behind that hood is terrible, of course. I'm not a fan of racial prejudice, at all. I just thought it was a hell of a statement to be making, and he's got some big brass balls to make it in the way that he did.
So he wont face criminal charges. Truly, what charges could actually be brought? I was out for a stroll yesterday and ran into a guy that had swastikas, Nazi eagles and SS lighting bolts tattooed on his arms and legs wearing shorts and a tank top proudly showing it all off.
An idiot yes. But that's not a crime. Offending someone is NOT a crime. Being an overt racist is NOT a crime. I have no clue where people get this idea that someone can be criminally charged for displaying racist symbols.
But it seems that only certain symbols rate criminal treatment. If those symbols offend certain groups. Other stuff that's just as offensive is OK.
It's fine to display an Imperial Japanese rising sun, (one I find personally offensive) to blast "kill Whitey" music in a parking lot, even to publically advocate for violence against LE, political groups (at least non leftist ones) stuff that's every bit as offensive as a Klan Klown hood or Nazi bilge.
But the latter two things draw advocacy fir criminal charges. U Derek "hate crime" statutes I'm assuming. I thought a "hate crime" needed some sort of violent or otherwise actual crimi al act like vandalism or arson to actually draw criminal charges and prosecution.
Yet now it is being suggested that merely offending people is a crime. Oh my, but this has gotten out of hand. There was a thread a while back on a hangman's noose that had been braided into a rope I believe in Home Depot.
The resultant furor was just incredible. Police investigating it, people having apoplectic fits at the sight of it. Why were the police involved? What "crime" had been committed?
Wow. America has gotten to be a weird place.
because people got offended
statues of christopher columbus and other historical figures that have stood for decades were taken because they were slave owners and suddenly people got offended.
I first saw that video as part of a larger creation discussing the mask mandate some jurisdictions are instituting. I laughed HARD when I saw it. It's hilarious. "You're going to force me to wear a mask? Ok." LOL
The sentiment and history behind that hood is terrible, of course. I'm not a fan of racial prejudice, at all. I just thought it was a hell of a statement to be making, and he's got some big brass balls to make it in the way that he did.
Didn't you read the story? The guy said the mask wasn't racist I find it amusing that whenever someone openly displays a racist symbol, they trip all over themselves explaining to the public that it's not REALLY racist; it means something else. How about they wear a surgical mask and get a flower tattoo instead of wearing a white KKK hood and getting a swastika tattoo? Those are much better ways for the person to imply they aren't racist than wearing something racist and swearing they aren't.
"wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood" a hood is a hood. How does the writer KNOW it is Kilu Klux Klasn hood?
Mayne he got it from KKK leader DEM Sen. Byrd
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