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Aussie College Baseball Playa Killed By Bored Teens In Ok Narrative

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Boom_70, Aug 19, 2013.

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  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    And, this is where you betray your own bias.
     
  2. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

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    But that's a bogus argument, because people don't want to know the race of people involved in crimes like this. They just want to know if the suspect is black.

    No one's reporting on the race of the Georgia school shooter, but there's no outcry over that. Why do you think that is?
     
  3. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    His booking photo was released almost immediately:

    [​IMG]

    We had his name. His brother talked about his mental health issues right away.

    There was no reason to ask his race. We knew, and it was clear that race was not a motive.
     
  4. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

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    And we knew the motive immediately in the Oklahoma shooting. It was the first thing anyone knew about it: they were bored. That's why it got so much attention immediately. Then the race baiters discovered some of the kids involved were black and started screaming "Trayvon Martin!"

    And I saw the mug shots of the Oklahoma shooters the first time I saw the story. I had no reason to ask about race.
     
  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

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    This thread got fat fast.

    What is frightening is that 3 kids cured their boredom by murdering someone for fun.
     
  6. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    The next race based story to go national?

    http://www.kxly.com/news/spokane-news/elderly-man-dies-after-being-attacked-outside-ice-arena/-/101214/21574858/-/9flm7iz/-/index.html

    http://www.khq.com/story/23225525/88-year-old-man-assaulted-at-eagles-ice-arena-has-died

    Up on Drudge now...
     
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

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    It's too bad that they were not aware of sj as a cure for boredom
     
  8. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    Even if "boredom" is accepted as a motive -- and, I think a lot of people question that -- you still need to know how they chose their target. You still have to at leas explore the racial angle, and based on the social media posts of at least one of the killers, there appears to be hatred for whites.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

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    oop's posts make me want to kill someone.
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

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    Duncan must not have a Patch like my area where well intentioned mothers with to much time on their hands
    write articles in the local patch about how to cure your teenagers summer malaise. Have a watermelon
    carving contest.
     
  11. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

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    We had a serial killer here who killed 8 people and wounded at least 29 others. He shot joggers and other people out on the street. The motive was, essentially, that it was something to do.

    White guy, by the way, so we can rest assured he had no racial malice whatsoever.
     
  12. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

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    Headline from Georgia should have been:

    Black librarian soothes white gunman

    http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20130822/US--Georgia.School.Shooting/
     
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