This Hasn't Been Posted Yet? Bizarre O-State Attack Happened 11/28/16

[Melizmatic]

I just thought it was rather odd how there was no mention of this story on BB yet.

[Mindysan33]

Mark my words, dude will serve less than a year or a year, if that, for kidnapping and attempting to murder his ex…

[daneel]

At least this guy will get longer:

jabariasim (jabariasim)

[Mindysan33]

I hope so, but I’m not ruling anything out after this past year.

[gatto]

@Melizmatic

They seemed to have ‘figured it out’ just fine if the perp is White and male.

here’s to “wondering” whether the 18 year old will be called a “teenager” or a “man” – i’m sure the reporters will be entirely objective, and won’t be influenced by their perceptions of race at all.

[Melizmatic]

Oh, I have no doubt.

[Mindysan33]

At 18, he’s legally an adult, to be fair. Of course, that doesn’t mean he has a fully developed brain at 18. But he’s certainly old enough to be held responsible for shooting 9 people solely for the color of their skin.

But of course, the story @Melizmatic linked to was about a 29 year old man who shot his ex girlfriend after kidnapping her.

[Brainspore]

@gatto

here’s to “wondering” whether the 18 year old will be called a “teenager” or a “man”

He’s both of course, but you’re right that the race of the suspect is likely to determine which term is used.

[Melizmatic]

@Mindysan33

But of course, the story @Melizmatic linked to was about a 29 year old man who shot his ex girlfriend after kidnapping her.

Just as a counter point; It seems awfully funny that the authorities often have no problem taking certain suspects alive and “without incident” when the alleged perps have a certain skin tone.

[OtherMichael]

The way things are going, he’ll probably get 4 years - as Secretary of State.

[gatto]

@Mindysan33

But of course, the story @Melizmatic linked to was about a 29 year old man who shot his ex girlfriend after kidnapping her.

for sure. it just reminded me of how the terms people use when referring to perpetrators change how people see things.

way back: the eldest columbine shooter was always called a teenager, despite the fact they were 18. in that case, i suspect it was because it took place at a high school – and so the term “man” would have made it seem more like an outsider was responsible.

i dont know if there are any statistics, but i’d bet that skin color tilts term selected.

[ficuswhisperer]

As terrible as these tragedies are, is it wrong of me to secretly hope that it’s a white dude that’s the culprit?

[Melizmatic]

No offense to anyone intended, but I almost always hope that when something horrible like this happens.

White people get to be individuals who don’t carry the burden of representing their entire “race” when they do something atrocious.

But if a person of color does something horrific and inhumane, it reflects badly on all people of that color, at least in some people’s minds.

[ficuswhisperer]

I think that actually pretty well encapsulates why I feel this way.

I mean yeah, it’d be great if we didn’t have to contend with tragedies like this but that’s just not reality today.

Maybe it’s just some sort of weird kind of “white dude survivor’s guilt” in these cases, but I always feel a profound disappointment when it turns out to be a non-Christian and/or POC behind these kind of crimes because I just know what the narrative is going to be and it’s not going to be good for anybody (except for the media and those who can use this as a platform to further a hateful agenda).

[LearnedCoward]

It’s a Somali

[Melizmatic]

@ficuswhisperer

(except for the media and those who can use this as a platform to further a hateful agenda).

Yep.

Wherever there’s inhumanity or systemic injustice, there will always be someone there who is only too willing to capitalize on it.

[Mindysan33]

Sure. We know that in criminal prosecutions. Teens who are black tend to be tried as a adults more often, for example.