also in connecticut...
www.examiner.com/article/black-man-fired-for-stealing-shoots-co-workers-cries-racism-6
(, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 10:26, Share, Reply)
Crikey.
What a genuinely horrible piece of journalism. They might just as well have added "... but what do you expect from a black man?" at the end.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 10:42,
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it's just a mirror of what you posted up there, a Fortinbras to your Hamlet.
"mass school shooting phenomenon seems to be a white middle-class pathology"
really? Virginia tech anyone? the biggest bodycount of all.
(, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 10:47, Share, Reply)
I'm not sure it's a mirror.
I mean: it'd be nuts to deny that there're some out-and-out dangerous people, and that there's no reason to believe that they're roughly equally distributed throughout all ethnicities. And, on reflection, I do wonder whether the ethnicity think in the LGM post to which I linked is overdone - whether the same thing could be said on class lines.
And I really don't think it's desirable to get into a your-mass-shooting-isn't-as-bad-as-mine poker games. But - as has been noted elsewhere on this board in the last 24 hours - killings in white middle class areas (especially when perpetrated by white middle class people) do seem to attract a lot more "You wouldn't expect it here" responses... as though there's something extra special about white middle class killings.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 15 Dec 2012, 11:08,
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tl;dr
glad you deleted that epic and tedious FB post. brevity is the soul of wit.
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