For today's college kids, the Rodney King beating seems mild and unremarkable

That is one of the dangers with both real and manufactured outrage - as it becomes more and more common place with documentation, it gets easier and easier to ignore as “just the way it is”. It’s one reason why I don’t think adding hyperbole in reporting or blogging is a good thing, any hint of exaggeration makes it easy to assume one is making a mounting out of a mole hill.

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